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TUPE: From Protection of Employees, to Promises for Employers
06 March 2013
By Roger Jeary
The Coalition's proposals for the reform of TUPE Regulations aim to strip back employee protection (the very purpose of the legislation) and give businesses an easy ride when it comes to dismissing workers and cutting pay.
Yellow squares on the windows: the occupation at Sussex University
06 March 2013
By John Medhurst
Privatisation of the public sector is part of a larger campaign to rob workers of decent pensions and working conditions, and is handing some state functions to companies that do not recognise trade unions. John Medhurst speaks to the student protesters at Sussex University, showing how many individuals are ready and willing to stand in solidarity with public sector workers to fight the ideological lurch to profit over people.
The Coalition has removed the best features of Employment Tribunals and kept the worst
22 February 2013
By David Renton
Today's tribunal system is not perfect, but the Coalition's reforms are taking away the best things about them and keeping the worst.
Health and safety issues spun into myths to blind workers of danger
22 February 2013
By Sarah Glenister, IER Staff
This is the fifth in a series of articles looking at what has been learned from the Coalition Timeline so far.
Anti-union stances within the Tory party are influencing frontbench ministers
21 February 2013
By Sarah Glenister, IER staff
The fourth in a series of articles looking at what the Coalition Timeline has taught us so far.
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