[IER] Last chance to book! Human Rights at Work: What's in store for labour law. *PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION*

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 <http://www.ier.org.uk/events/human-rights-possibilities-and-problems-labour-law-london-note-new-venue> 

Wednesday 1st July 2015, London. 

PLEASE NOTE NEW LOCATION ADDRESS


Go to our website <http://www.ier.org.uk/events/human-rights-possibilities-and-problems-labour-law-london-note-new-venue>  to book.

Cost: A discount is available to those who pay upfront (before the date of the conference) by cheque. An online special offer is available to those who pay upfront via Paypal. Those who pay by invoice will pay full price.


Payment up front

£75 Subscribers and members

£90 Trade Unions

£220 Lawyers

Payment by invoice

£80 Subscribers and members

£100 Trade Unions

£240 Lawyers

 


PLEASE NOTE: the cost of the conference does not include lunch. Places are limited, with some reserved for the press, so please book early to secure your place. 

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

Programme:

9.30       Registration

 

9.50       Welcome from Chair

              Nerys Owen, Labour Research Department

 

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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