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(08/10/12)<br>- Pickles announces drive to squeeze trade unions. (09/10/12)<br><b>- Rights in the Workplace</b><br>- Give up your rights for share of profits, govt says (09/10/12)<br>- Lib Dems get behind rights-for-shares swap (09/10/12)<br><b>- Equality<br></b>- Equality laws scrapped despite major opposition (10/10/12)<span style='color:#505050'><br> <a href="http://ier.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfce15d9bb37b64de42086ad2&id=5bcfb89c9d&e=f9032df4ea" target="_blank"><span style='color:#336699'>GO TO THE TIMELINE TO READ MORE</span></a></span><span style='color:#1F497D'><br></span></span><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;color:#1F497D'><br></span><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>New on the website</span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><br></span><strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Blog </span></strong><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-<span style='color:#505050'> <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/tory-conference-attack-civil-service-trade-unions">Tory conference attack on civil service trade unions</a><br></span><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Blog </span></strong>-<span style='color:#505050'> </span><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/employment-law-experts-blast-coalitions-ideological-attacks">Employment law experts blast Coalition's ideological attacks</a><br></span><b>Blog </b>-<span style='color:#1F497D'> <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/turning-employees-owners-falsest-promise-yet">Turning employees into 'owners'? The falsest promise yet</a><br></span><b>Blog </b>-<span style='color:#1F497D'> <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/governments-wholly-unequal-response-issues-equality">The government's wholly unequal response to issues of equality</a> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%'><b><span style='font-size:13.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Events news<br></span></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Many thanks to everybody who attended our sell-out <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/employment-law-update-2012-ken-gill-memorial-fund-0">Employment Law Update 2012 conference</a> in London. We've had some great feedback for our fantastic speakers and we've uploaded all papers and presentations to our website, as well as some photographs taken on the day.<br><br><i><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/employment-law-update-2012-ken-gill-memorial-fund-0">Click here</a> to see our photo gallery, report and to find out more about the film Big Society the Musical - the trailer for which was presented at the conference.</i><br><br>Did you miss out on the event this year? Don't forget there are still a few tickets left for our <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/employment-law-update-2012-ken-gill-memorial-fund-0">Employment Law Update 2012 event</a> in Liverpool. </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr><td valign=top style='padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=400 style='width:300.0pt'><tr><td width=180 valign=top style='width:135.0pt;background:white;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=396 style='width:296.9pt'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt'><h4><a href="http://ier.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=bfce15d9bb37b64de42086ad2&id=7944382fe2&e=f9032df4ea"><span style='text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=196 height=73 id="_x0000_i1031" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/bfce15d9bb37b64de42086ad2/images/conferences.1.1.png" alt="Employment Law Conferences"></span></a><span style='color:#1F497D'><br></span><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1027" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Employment Law Update 2012 Liverpool" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/employment-law-update-2012-ken-gill-memorial-fund" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:0;width:75pt;height:91.5pt;z-index:2;mso-wrap-distance-left:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:0;mso-position-horizontal:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:top;mso-position-vertical-relative:line' o:allowoverlap="f" o:button="t">
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