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Coalition proposes repeal of 114-year-old employment right
17 October 2012
By Marcus Weatherby, Pattinson & Brewer solicitors
Marcus Weatherby, who specialises in personal injury law at Pattinson & Brewer solicitors, lays out the facts and context behind the Coalition government's astonishing new proposal to repeal workers' 114-year-old right to rely on a breach of health and safety legislation in personal injury claims.
Employers could become no longer liable for some breaches of health and safety legislation
Keith Patten of Thompson's Solicitors says: "This is of potentially huge importance and needs wide circulation so it does not just slip in under the radar as a 'technical' amendment."
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12 October 2012
By Sarah Glenister
Nine experts provide ideas for economic alternatives to austerity.
The government's wholly unequal response to issues of equality
12 October 2012
By Roger Jeary
The government's pretense of a consultation has ended in a decision that willfully ignores the views of the majority of respondents - unless, of course, they happen to represent the private sector
Turning employees into 'owners'? The falsest promise yet
12 October 2012
By Nicola Countouris, Mark Freedland and Jeremias Prassl
Three employment law experts look into the "deeply worrying" shares-for-rights trade off proposed by George Osborne this week
Employment law experts blast Coalition's ideological attacks
11 October 2012
By Roger Jeary
Roger Jeary, a delegate at the IER’s recent sell-out Employment Law Update 2012 conference, reports on the event.
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