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JD Sports expose reveals working conditions “worse than a prison”
16 December 2016 After an undercover Channel 4 News investigation has revealed conditions at a JD Sports warehouse to be “worse than a…
If govt wants older people to stay in work, it needs to improve their rights
03 February 2017 The government yesterday announced a new strategy to “encourage the over 50s to reap the benefits of work” – a phrasing that seems to place responsibility on…
All failing schools will become academies
3 June 2015 The Education and Adoption Bill will see up to 1,000 schools in England turned into academies, regardless of popular…
Committee urges government to work with unions
07 March 2017 The Select Committee for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has urged the government to work with trade unions in its implementation of an industrial…
Sacked for being pregnant: More nightmare accounts of insecure work
10 March 2017 Hannah Reed, Senior Employment Rights Officer at the TUC, has told the Select Committee for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy that workers are being “sacked on the…
UN human rights expert blasts UK govt for “social re-engineering” that has imposed “great misery” on British people
Concluding his two-week visit to the UK, the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Philip Alston, has published a scathing report that describes government policy as…
Govt begs young people to work in care – for less than minimum wage
The government is appealing for young workers to join the care sector in a bid to plug an ever-expanding staff-shortage in the industry, but will not ensure they receive the…
Jeremy Corbyn thanks IER in speech adopting Manifesto proposals at TUC
Leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn, thanked the Institute of Employment Rights for its advice on the contents of a new deal for workers announced at TUC…
The Stakes: Employment Rights
By Alex Just, employment law specialist, IER 01 June 2017 There has been a Conservative Prime Minister in Number 10 since the Coalition government formed in 2010. Although Theresa May…
Collective Bargaining in Ireland: lessons for Westminster?
29 April 2015 By Michael Doherty, Professor of Law and Head of the Department of Law at Maynooth University, Ireland The voluntarist system of employment relations that exists in Ireland…
Trade Unions and the General Election 2015
13 May 2015 By Professor Keith Ewing Shortly after the general election in 2010, I wrote in these columns that Cameron would win the 2015 general election (Morning Star, 18…
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