Sarah Glenister
What has the Coalition Timeline taught us so far?
20 December 2012
Earlier this year, the IER launched our interactive resource, the Coalition Timeline, to record government proposals, backbench whispers, u-turns and policies that attack employment rights and trade unions. We are around halfway through the Coalition (let's hope!), so what has the Coalition Timeline taught us so far?
How the UK’s weak labour laws leave UK workers more vulnerable than those in Greece
20 December 2012
By Sarah Glenister, IER staff
The failure of the UK to ratify an international protocol has left British workers and trade unions in a position potentially more vulnerable than those in long-suffering Greece.
Evasion of law by Sodexo demonstrates short-sightedness of collective redundancy consultation period cuts
19 December 2012
By Sarah Glenister, IER staff
On the day Employment Relations Minister, Jo Swinson announced the government will halve the minimum consultation period employers must take before mass redundancies, a trade union has been forced to ballot their members for industrial action as services contractor Sodexo attempts to evade existing laws on the matter.
Does the noise from ice cream vans really affect more people than cutting employment rights, Oliver Letwin?
13 December 2012
By Sarah Glenister, IER staff
Oliver Letwin, Cabinet Office Minister responsible for coordinating government policy, tries to defend the government's new approach to consultations (that is, making them more difficult to respond to), to the Secondary Legislation and Scrutiny Committee.
Govt gives opposition just two weeks to respond to consultations
15 November 2012
By Sarah Glenister
The government's reform of its approach to public consultations could leave sections of society without a voice.
It's time for a public inquiry into blacklisting
02 November 2012
By Sarah Glenister
New developments show the Information Commissioner's Office seized only a tiny minority of evidence when blacklist holder Consulting Association was investigated in 2009.
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