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<http://www.ier.org.uk/events/human-rights-possibilities-and-problems-labour
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Wednesday 1st July 2015, London

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<http://www.ier.org.uk/events/human-rights-possibilities-and-problems-labour
-law-london-0> Book your place now for our  Human Rights conference

 

Programme:

9.30       Registration

 

9.50       Welcome from Chair

               Carolyn Jones, Director IER

 

10.00     Human rights at work: A post-election overview

               Keith Ewing, President, IER

 

10.30     Surveillance and Monitoring at Work: How much is
too much?

                Shah Qureshi & Peter Daly, Bindmans Solicitors

 

11.00      Questions and discussion 

 

11:15     BREAK    

 

11:30     Blacklisting: No respect for private and family life

                Alex Just, Old Square Chambers

 

12.00    Raising complaints to International bodies

              Daniel Blackburn, Director, International Centre for
Trade Union Rights

 

12.30      Questions and discussion

 

12.45      LUNCH

 

1.45        Access to Justice, Article 6 and the right to a fair hearing

               Morag McDermot, University of Bristol Law School

 

2.15        Human Rights for Domestic Workers

                Virginia Mantouvalou, UCL

                

2.45        Discrimination at work: Can Article 14 assist?

                Aileen McColgan, Matrix Chambers

 

3.00        Questions and discussion

 

3.30        Close


 


At the Tory party conference in 2014, Cameron announced that he was ready to
remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights. In April 2015
that threat was included in the Conservative Party election manifesto,
reflecting Tory plans to replace the Human Rights Act 1998 with a British
Bill of Rights.

So what would be the impact of such a change on workers' rights? To begin
with it would enable British Judges to ignore rulings of the European Court
of Human Rights (ECtHR) and would undermine the European Convention on Human
Rights (ECHR) - the international treaty first drafted in the post-war years
to protect fundamental rights and freedoms.

A flood of watchdogs and organisations have come out against the move, which
despite government claims, is clearly intended to remove rather than
strengthen civil liberties and will further deregulate and remove health and
safety and employment protections from the statute book. 

The plan has been extensively critiqued by the Tories own Dominic Grieve,
who said; "Such a course may be strictly lawful, but its practical
consequences are likely to be as devastating both for ourselves domestically
as it will be for the future of the Convention." And the Shadow Justice
Secretary, Sadiq Khan said; "five more years of the Tories would mean the
systematic dismantling of the postwar human rights system that has done so
much to protect people's basic rights" 

So what would withdrawal from the ECHR mean for employment rights and worker
protections? This conference aims to shed light on the issues by focusing on
the kind of workplace abuses that the Convention aims to protect us against.
So, whether it's surveillance at work, blacklisting of trade unionists, the
systematic removal of access to justice or the need to defend the
protections provided against discrimination under Article 14 of the
Convention, expert speakers at this event will look at the possibilities and
problems of the developing human rights agenda.


 


 


 



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