New on the Coalition Timeline
Pay and Benefits
- Lib Dems push controversial pension scheme (29/01/2014)
Trade union rights
- Tories won't apologize for miners' strike (30/01/2014)
- "Good Chance" Tory manifesto will make strikes almost impossible (30/01/2014)
- Tories want to minimise Human Rights Charter (30/01/2014)
Equality
- Tory MPs propose a ban on HIV positive immigrants coming to Britain (30/01/2014)
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Public rally: Hands off our Unions, defend our right to resist austerity
On Tuesday 11 February at 6:30pm, at the Camden Centre in London, the Institute of Employment Rights (IER) will be holding a public rally co-hosted by the People's Assembly and the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom. Come along to fight for union rights with speakers Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite the Union; Mark Serwotka, General Secretary of the Public and Commercial Services Union; comedian Francesca Martinez; and Chair of the IER John Hendy QC. Read more...
Pay and benefits
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’. Read more...
Two pieces of research published today (31 January 2014) show that real wages have been falling since Thatcher's era in the 1980s, while weak economic recovery under the Coalition does not mean that living standards will recover just yet. Read more...
TUPE
The Coalition's new TUPE regulations came into effect today (31 January 2014), weakening protection for workers whose jobs are being transferred to a new employer. Read more...
Health and safety
Prime Minister, David Cameron announced yesterday, 28 January 2014, that 80,000 pages of environmental protections and building guidelines have been torn up in order to cut costs and to invest in construction. Read more...
Trade union rights
Yesterday, 27 January 2014, the ETUC brought to light the results of their investigation into the activities of the Troika in various countries. Read more...
A landmark victory by trade union Usdaw is being appealed against by the government at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). Read more...
The Pharmacists’ Defence Association Union (PDA) has been invited by the High Court to make an application for a declaration of incompatibility between UK law and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) after the union was refused recognition by Boots Management Services. Read more...
Labour is asking the government to issue an apology on behalf of Margret Thatcher's administration during the 1984-85 miners' strike. Read more...
The Conservative Party has refused to issue an apology on behalf of Margaret Thatcher’s government for its plans to send troops in to break up the miners’ strike and for lying to the public about the scale of pit shutdowns. Read more...
The Tory government wants to establish a clear legal precedent so that the European Union's Charter of Fundamental Rights only has a minimal role in British courts. Read more...
London mayor Boris Johnson has said there is a “good chance” the Conservative Party Manifesto for 2015 will include tougher restrictions on union balloting practice, which will make it nigh impossible for workers to strike. Read more...
Lobbying Bill
The controversial Transparency of Lobbying, Non-Party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Bill is to become law after it passed through the Lords without amendments. Read more...
Pensions
Despite controversy and uncertainty the Lib Dem minister is trying to push forward a new pensions scheme that could be potentially detrimental to pensioners and their later life income. Read more...
On Monday, 27 January 2014, a group of university cleaners kicked off a three day strike as part of their 'three things' campaign. Read more...
Inequality
The Labour party has claimed that the communities who will suffer most from the local government cuts will be the more disadvantaged areas in England. Statistics show that between the years of 2010/11 and 2015/16, the percentage cut in spending will rise ten times in the more deprived communities than the better off ones. Read more...
Workers' rights
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). Read more...
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Forthcoming events
Pensions: Changes and challenges
Wednesday 12 February 2014
A one-day conference
Unite the Union, London
Wednesday 26 February 2014
A one-day conference
Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool
Wednesday 05 March 2014
A one-day conference
Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool
Wednesday 19 March 2014
A one-day conference
Unison, Euston Road, London
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