14 March 2014

On 10th March the Guardian ran a story exposing the huge rise in zero hour contracts. According to the lastest official statistics from the Office for National Statistics, nearly 583,000 employees – more than double the government's estimate – were forced to sign up to the exploitative conditions last year.

14 March 2014

The ACAS early conciliation service will launch on 6 April 2014. Under the scheme, employment tribunal claimants will be required to first notify details of their claim to ACAS, who will then attempt to conciliate a settlement without litigation. Notification to ACAS will be through completion of a form – which, according to recent speakers at IER conferences, is not as easy as it sounds - or by telephone.

14 March 2014

On 1st march 2014 Ed Miliband tabled an EDM calling for the recent changes to the TUPE Regulations to be annulled.

12 March 2014

The Institute salutes the memory of Bob Crow.

31 January 2014

The Home Affairs Committee has published a report on the work of the Permanent Secretary, which showed that the Home Office has paid huge bonuses to its staff despite the government making hundreds of thousands of people redundant due to the ‘financial situation’.