[IER] VIDEO: John Hendy QC on reform to protect precarious workers

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IER News Brief 18/11/16

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Friday 18th November 2016

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This week, we have shared a video of our Chair John Hendy QC <http://ier.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=487e433d4c&e=71131c031b>  - lead co-author of our Manifesto for Labour Law <http://ier.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=970a101326&e=71131c031b>  - explaining how our proposals for reform will help to protect the increasing number of people currently trapped in precarious work.

Analysis for the Guardian <http://ier.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=72d4a2946f&e=71131c031b>  has shown that over one in five workers are now in jobs that they could lose at short or no notice, with the number of people in such insecure work rising from 5.3 million to 7.1 million over the last ten years.

The figures also revealed that low pay is endemic among precarious workers - including those (mis)classified as self-employed, who now earn around half the wage of an average worker - uncovering a much darker side to the employment rate rise the Tories have boasted about. Earlier this year, the TUC reported that 88% of new jobs are classified as  <http://ier.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=061b7e8743&e=71131c031b> "self-employed". 

What's more, a new government report <http://ier.us12.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=f6cc73ab3b&e=71131c031b>  suggests that only 10% of those on low pay ever escape on to higher earnings, calling for urgent action to be taken to shift the economy away from its focus on low-skilled, low-waged jobs. Not only will the poorest and most vulnerable continue to suffer, the Social Mobility Commission warned, but a lack of training among the workforce is heading the UK towards a skills crisis.

These stories onces again echo the concerns we outlined in our Manifesto for Labour Law - 25 recommendations for the reform of labour law now adopted by the Labour Party <http://ier.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=3fcd3ac351&e=71131c031b> . At a Unite the Resistance Conference last weekend, John Hendy QC said: "The only way we can recover this situation for the working class in this country is to bring back collective bargaining .... the only way that workers can have a voice in their wokring lives is through a trade union collectively bargaining with their employer or employers' association."

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	VIDEO: IER Chair John Hendy QC on how reform can help today's precarious workers
Our Chair John Hendy QC told the Unite the Resistance Conference how the Institute of Employment Rights’ Manifesto for Labour Law can put in place the legal framework to provide security for workers in the UK’s increasingly precarious labour market.
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	Over one in five workers now in precarious employment
More than one in five workers now relies on precarious employment after the number of insecure jobs in the economy rose substantially over the last decade.
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	Only 10% escape low pay & skills crisis looms, warns govt report
Only one in ten people on low pay escaped on to higher earnings between 2001 and 2011, the government's Social Mobility Commission has reported, warning of a looming skills crisis if current trends continue.
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	COMMENT: Productivity puzzle? Financialization, inequality, investment
Özlem Onaran, Professor of Economics and Director of Greenwich Political Economy Research Centre at the University of Greenwich explains the conditions behind the UK's record widest productivity gap with the G7 and how trade unionism can help.
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 VIDEO: John Hendy QC on reform to protect precarious workers 

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