19 March 2015 We have reported many a time that falling unemployment figures masks the more sinister reality of the new jobs market; casualisation, underemployment, zero hours contracts and bogus…
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Employment Law Update 2018: London
Alan Bogg presentation.pptx, Automation and employment rights.ppt, Brexit and Labour Law.docx, Neil Todd presentation.pptx, Paul Scholey Presentation.pptx, Jo Grady presentation.pptx, Ian Hodson speech.docx A report on our conference covering changes…
Alan Bogg presentation.pptx, Automation and employment rights.ppt, Brexit and Labour Law.docx, Neil Todd presentation.pptx, Paul Scholey Presentation.pptx, Jo Grady presentation.pptx, Ian Hodson speech.docx
TUC: A long road to recovery for employment and wages
23 January 2015 Under-employment will not return to its pre-crisis levels until 2023, if it continues at its current rate of reduction, according to new analysis on the Labour Force…
5 Ways Public Sector Workers are Being Exploited
10 April 2013 The Coalition’s ideologically-driven ambition to shrink the state is leading to increased outsourcing in the public sector, which – alongside new government policy – is dismantling the…
Labour Party adopts IER sectoral collective bargaining plan
The Institute of Employment Rights welcomes the adoption of its sectoral collective bargaining proposals by the Labour…
What do the smaller parties offer workers?
01 June 2017 The Scottish Nationalist Party (SNP), Plaid Cymru, The Green Party and UKIP were all given a platform at last night’s BBC Debate, but they didn’t get the…
One in five workers now low paid
4 September 2014 Center for Cities, an independent think tank, has published a report, “unequal opportunities”. Commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree foundation, the report draws attention to the polarisation of…
Underemployment hits 3.4 million
5 September 2014 Underemployment – those in work but wanting more hours – has risen by 432,000 under the coalition government, with an increase of 100,000 over the last two…
Most employers want stronger workers’ rights, study finds
Nearly two-thirds of businesses say that employment law should be stronger, including in raising…
Lord Freud celebrates reserve army of desperate unemployed
29 January 2014 By Sarah Glenister, IER staff In a speech yesterday (28 January 2014) to the National Youth Employment Summit, Lord Freud celebrated the new “flexibility” of workers expected…
Unions rail against “disaster” of hospitality scheme
Unions have called for a sector-specific rescue package to be put in place for hospitality and other vulnerable…
ONS: Unemployment falls while pay squeeze continues
18 September 2014 The Office for National Statistics (ONS) have published their latest Labour Market Statistics, for May to July 2014. The statistics revealed that unemployment is continuing to fall,…
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