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 following the introduction of Universal Credit (UC).

24 January 2014

Neil Duncan-Jordan, National Officer, National Pensioners Convention

Neil Duncan-Jordan explains how under Coalition policies, both occupational pensions and state pensions will fall in value and take longer to accrue for future UK workers.

23 January 2014

By Janet Newsham

Janet Newsham reports on the lessons learned from yesterday’s (22 January 2014) Equality and Discrimination conference held by the Institute of Employment Rights.

17 January 2014

By Sarah Glenister, IER staff

The big news story today (17 January 2014) is the surprising announcement that George Osborne apparently backs raising the National Minimum Wage (NMW) to above-inflation levels.

By Sarah Glenister, IER Staff

14 January 2014

In the run-up to the General Election next year, the Labour Party has begun to spell out its policies, hoping – it seems – to attract voters from all classes. The Institute of Employment Rights (IER) reiterates that more effective collective bargaining on a national scale is the solution Labour is looking for to achieve its aims.

08 January 2014

By Jamie Hanley, partner at Pattinson & Brewer and Labour’s parliamentary candidate for his home seat of Pudsey

On January 07, Parliament considered the third reading of the Mesothelioma Bill and so I thought it would be appropriate to update on my last comment, which coincided with the second reading of the Bill.