[IER] Employers' Charter v Workers' Rights

[Carolyn Jones]

<http://ier.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ba9eaa8efed32fc791ea26581&id=a
99fe502e4&e=d05416d128> Institute of Employment Rights



Cable's Employers' Charter incites bosses to take advantage of workers'
vulnerability


 Keith ewing 2007.bmp

Without apparent irony, Vince Cable announced two new steps in the ConDem's
-comprehensive review of employment laws. The first, proposals for settling
workplace disputes
<http://www.bis.gov.uk/Consultations/resolving-workplace-disputes?cat=open>
. The second the publication of an Employers
<http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?itemId=1086685881&type=O
NEOFFPAGE&furlname=employerscharter&furlparam=employerscharter&ref=&domain=w
ww.businesslink.gov.uk> ' Charter. No prizes for guessing how the government
thinks workplace disputes should be settled! 

Cable claims that employment protections are all one way - towards the
employee! In a swift response to Cable's ludicrous suggestions and nasty
proposals IER President Keith Ewing <http://www.ier.org.uk/node/555>
exposes the myth that employers are suffering under over-burdensome,
worker-friendly laws and highlights recent international condemnations of
the UK's abysmal labour standards.


	
	


Watch this Webspace

Big plans are ahead for the IER's website. From April 2011 onwards IER
subscribers will be able to download electronic versions of our publications
- including past publications now out of print. By logging in with a
personalised password, subscribers will have access to parts of the website
other people cannot reach. To ensure you get full access to our site, take
out a subscription now <http://www.ier.org.uk/node/154> . For those not
inclined to go electric, hard copy books will still be circulated to
subscribers.

 
 


.


 


 


Employers are using the recession to ride 


roughshod over workers' rights, but 


we can fight back and resist.


 


 

 

 

In a second article published this week, Keith Ewing
<http://www.ier.org.uk/node/563>  outlines a few examples of employer bad
behavior, which he says reminds him of some of the worst practices of the
1980s. Employers using and abusing redundancy procedures to undermine the
terms and conditions of workers  -issuing inferior contracts on a
take-it-or-leave-it basis under the 90 days notice provisions  - offer just
one example of bad employer practices. 

 

Keith looks at various options for challenging such abusive employer
behavior. As he says: "...at a time when trade unionists are being thrown
into battle with bows and arrows against tanks, any weapon to support
guerrilla campaigns is to be embraced". 

 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/pipermail/ier-elist/attachments/20110203/b3cb486e/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image003.png
Type: image/png
Size: 7893 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/pipermail/ier-elist/attachments/20110203/b3cb486e/attachment.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.png
Type: image/png
Size: 28865 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/pipermail/ier-elist/attachments/20110203/b3cb486e/attachment-0001.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image004.png
Type: image/png
Size: 364 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/pipermail/ier-elist/attachments/20110203/b3cb486e/attachment-0002.png>