[IER] P&O sackings: the IER view

[Ben Sellers]

News brief - 25/03/22                                                                           View this email in your browser 





P&O sackings show why laws to protect workers are so important
 


"Conservative and Labour politicians at Westminster have been queuing up in Parliament and in front of mics to express their outrage at P&O Ferries for the ‘dismissal by zoom’ of 800 seafarers. Some seem genuinely bewildered about how such things can happen, and others have gone so far as to suggest the need for emergency legislation, though to do what is unclear."

- IER President Keith Ewing on the P&O sackings.


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It’s the hobbling of trade union power that’s permitted P&O’s actions
After 42 years of anti-union legislation, we urgently need a restoration of the freedom of unions to defend their members - IER Chair, John Hendy QC, writes on the labour law context behind the P&O scandal


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P&O Ferries, Business and Human Rights
Professor Keith Ewing argues that the P&O announcement raises big questions about the effectiveness of a wide variety of so-called soft law instruments to ensure social responsibility


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Sunak will ignore the deep seated short-termism at the heart of this crisis
The Institute of Employment Rights ahead of the #SpringStatement


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Unions react to Spring Statement
Rishi Sunak announced his spring statement yesterday against a backdrop of a cost-of-living crisis.


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Victory for Au pairs and Nannies
"They think that because we are migrants we don’t deserve the same basic protections as other workers."


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