[IER] National Minimum Wage law "in urgent need of reform"

[Ben Sellers]

   The ongoing pandemic has laid bare some fundamental structural problems in relation to the NMW framework   
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|  News brief - 10/12/21                                                                           View this email in your browser  |

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The case for minimum wage reform
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|  As the Government announces their ‘Plan B’ measures, in the face of the Omincron variant, the IER has published a new report, by labour lawyer Kate Ewing, making a timely and powerful argument that attention should be on a Plan A for low paid workers who have to self-isolate, without adequate and reliable support.

In ‘A Just Share: The case for minimum wage reform’, she analyses three important recent employment law cases. These cases and the ongoing pandemic have laid bare some fundamental structural problems within various sectors, and in relation to the NMW framework specifically, which undermine worker protection and dignity.
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New Director of Labour Market Enforcement appointed
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Justin Madders MP takes Employment Rights brief
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High Court finds against Uber
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