[IER] Taylor Review: An easy guide to all the recommendations

Fri Jul 14 17:22:06 BST 2017

IER News Brief 14/07/17

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Friday 14th July 2017

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The Taylor Review was finally released this week and managed to run to 116 pages without offering any recommendations substantial enough to truly protect workers in the "gig" economy, as it claimed it would do. In fact, in some places it removed workers' rights and made conditions for vulnerable workers worse!

The IER has published a cheat sheet <http://ier.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=673a73a19c&e=71131c031b>  containing all of Taylor's recommendations and comparing them to some of those we put forth as part of our Manifesto for Labour Law.

Key recommendations were as such:

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Elsewhere this week, the government introduced the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill <http://ier.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=a6d8dcab30&e=71131c031b> , otherwise known as the Great Repeal Bill.

The Bill offers no written protection for workers' rights and allows the government to make changes to laws originating in the EU without debating them in parliament for up to two years after Brexit <http://ier.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=8016bd3ff5&e=71131c031b> . It also states that the European Convention on Human Rights will not be brought into UK law <http://ier.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=b173e73142&e=71131c031b> . 

It has been opposed by the Labour Party, and both Wales and Scotland have threatened to refuse legislative consent <http://ier.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=bcff377d4c&e=71131c031b> .

Our panel of experts will be discussing the risks posed by the Great Repeal Bill at our event next week on Post-Brexit Employment Rights and Trade Deals <http://ier.us12.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=c6172d6256&e=71131c031b> . Booking is still open for this 19 July conference in London. 

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	BA gives strikes' bonuses to staff who did not join industrial action
British Airways has been accused of using "divide and rule" tactics to try and break up the ongoing strike among cabin crew.
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	The IER guide to the Taylor Review
Download an easy to read guide to all of Taylor's recommendations as they pertain to employment law.
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	COMMENT: Taylor tinkers and employees will still be exploited
Gregor Gall,Professor of Industrial Relations at Bradford University, explains how the Taylor Review simply encourages the government to continue failing to enforce workers' protections.
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	COMMENT: Where is workers' voice in Taylor's Review?
IER Chair John Hendy QC says Taylor Review omits most crucial reform for a fair workplace - the reinstatement of sector level collective bargaining. 
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	COMMENT: ‘Matthew Taylor’s Review of Employment Practices in the Modern Economy – How a mountain gave birth to a mouse’ 
Nicola Countouris, Professor of Law at University College London; and Professor Keith D. Ewing, President of the IER describe Taylor's review as "seriously underwhelming, where not counterproductive"
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