[IER] New workers' rights for post-EU UK

[Sarah Glenister]

IER News Brief 03/02/17

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Friday 03rd February 2017

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As MPs voted to give May's government authority to trigger Article 50, thoughts are turning to what a post-EU UK could look like.

The IER argues that a post-EU UK should go beyond protecting the workers' rights we have now to build a stronger framework of law that would promote higher wages and conditions, and less inequality. Our recommendations, which have been adopted by the Labour Party, are set out by 15 leading labour lawyers and academics in our Manifesto for Labour Law <http://ier.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=3517a91737&e=71131c031b> .

Our key proposal is to shift the focus of labour law from statutory minimum rights to collective bargaining, allowing workers to organise and negotiate for higher wages and conditions within not only their companies but across entire sectors. With greater spending power, demand for products and services will increase, leading businesses to create new jobs.

We also recommend that everybody in employment is eligible for the same statutory rights - which would be stronger than they are today - in order that companies cannot exploit vulnerable sections of society (such as agency workers, who currently have fewer rights than employees; and those who are misclassified as "self employed").

In addition, our policies ensure there are repercussions for those who break the rules. We propose having agreeing dispute procedures collectively so most problems can be resolved without going to court, labour inspectors within workplaces to make sure the law is followed, and free at the point of use tribunals.

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 News and comment

	

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	Race to the bottom after Brexit is 'very real fear', says Fawcett Society
Britain could be pressured into becoming a low-regulation economy with much weaker workers' rights if action is not taken to protect and build on current employment law..
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 Workers' rights <https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/b1c726de-bf3c-454c-9dd0-50d42672c9ff.png> 

	If govt wants older people to stay in work, it needs to improve their rights
The government yesterday announced a new strategy to "encourage the over 50s to reap the benefits of work" – a phrasing that seems to place responsibility on the unemployed for their own bad luck – at a time when it is systematically undermining the very mechanisms that could help older workers fight for their rights.
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	Sport Direct-style exploitation revealed in yet another high street retailer
Exploitative conditions have been found at yet another high street retailer - BooHoo - after a Channel 4 Dispatches investigation sent an undercover reporter into the retailer's warehouse.
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 Access to justice <https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/3217d00c-d174-45e5-a9cf-a588a59f2af4.jpg> 

	Govt says workers only "discouraged" not "prevented" from accessing justice
Despite a 68% fall in cases between 2013 and 2015, the government insists that workers are not "prevented" from accessing justice, they are only "discouraged". 
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 Free papers to download from Liverpool Access to Justice event 

	

 





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If you missed the conference and would like to hear first-hand how top lawyers, trade unions, academics and tribunal judges are reacting to the new ET fees review, there is still time to book on to our London Access to Justice conference <http://ier.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=6e66b0550f&e=71131c031b> , which will be held next week.





	

  Publications

	

 LLH2016 <https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/815fda47-e4b4-4148-a3e2-81af67efe0a4.jpg> 

	Labour Law Highlights 2016: £8
Edited by Rebecca Tuck
This year’s Labour Law Highlights is produced against the backdrop of a Brexit vote in the UK and a Trump victory in the USA. It promises to be a bumpy ride ahead!
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 Health and Safety Time for Change <https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/afdba51d-b908-42ab-8241-ddca46df52ce.jpg> 

	Health and Safety at Work Act: Time for Change: £10
By Phil James and David Walters
The world of work is changing. Fast. But the framework of law tasked with protecting the health, safety and well being of workers is now 50 years old and – according to the authors of this report – no longer fit for purpose. The authors put forth proposals for reform
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	Access to Justice: Exposing the myths: £6
By Andrew Moretta
In the second of IER’s series of Mythbusters, Andrew Moretta considers the many myths surrounding access to justice, including the narrative surrounding the “red tape” and “burdens on business” ideology, which he believes paved the way for systematic attacks on the tribunal system.
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 Kill the Bill <https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/3a996d1c-1459-4dfb-81b8-8901488dad8a.jpg> 

	Protect the right to strike: kill the bill: £5
By John Hendy QC & Professor Keith Ewing
Two leading experts on trade union rights – Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC – publish a short but comprehensive overview of the Trade Union Bill and its implications.
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 Ballot Thresholds <https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/cee8b19e-c2dc-452d-a284-b14209fbf568.jpg> 

	The Conservative Government’s proposed strike ballot thresholds: The challenge to trade unions: from £6
By Professor Ralph Darlington and Dr John Dobson
According to the authors of this timely report, the government is attempting to rush into law ‘the most sweeping and radical tightening of rules on industrial action since the Thatcher era of the 1980’s’. They warn that such proposals could result in ‘the biggest showdown over industrial relations for a generation’ and go on to drill down into one aspect of the government’s proposals – strike ballots.
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 Keithe Ewing <https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/6ac2ddd4-6bd6-4c3f-81ad-06fdb882171c.jpg> 

	The mythology of business: from £6
By David Whyte
The ‘myths’ that this publication takes into consideration are the kind of things that politicians now routinely say without thinking. Yet these 10 myths have very little foundation in reality and are rarely, if ever, accompanied with any concrete evidence to support them.
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  Events

	

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	Access to Justice 2017: London
08 February 2017 - 09:30 - 15:00
Unite the Union, London
We bring together legal experts, trade unionists and academics to address recent and future planned changes to the tribunal structures, how the changes impact on claims, and what unions are doing to try and improve the enforcement of rights at work.
Speakers include Judge Brian Doyle, David Sorenson, Kate Ewing, Michael Ford, Gerard Airey, Diana Holland and Howard Beckett
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 Migration after Brexit: the challenge for labour standards 2017: London <https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/21731663-49d4-420d-8026-e8d4e9dce1e4.jpg> 

	Migration after Brexit: the challenge for labour standards 2017: London
15 March 2017 - 09:30 - 15:15
Unite the Union, London
This conference will cover migration policy after Brexit, both from the EU and from elsewhere in the world, and the implications of future labour migration patterns for labour standards. The speakers will bring extensive expertise to the subject, as academics, campaigners and trade unionists.
Speakers include Bernard Ryan, Don Flynn, Susan Cueva, Diana Holland, Alex Balch, Alan Bogg, Owen Espley and Sonia McKay
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