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unexpected judgement for unions.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:5.75pt;margin-left:0cm;line-height:15.6pt;background:#E5DFEC;vertical-align:baseline;border:none;padding:0cm'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal'>Elsewhere, bad news keeps rolling in on the wider economy and the impact of the Coalition's policies. <o:p></o:p></span></h1></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The TUC reported that Britain is currently facing </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>its <a href="http://www.tuc.org.uk/economy/tuc-22366-f0.cfm"><span style='color:#A43F65'>longest wages squeeze since the 1870s</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> and The </span><span 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Skelton – leader of new Tory group </span></span></div><![if !mso]></td></tr></table></span><![endif]><![if !mso & !vml]> <![endif]><![if !vml]></td></tr><tr><td height=388></td><td rowspan=3 width=266 height=395 style='vertical-align:top'><![endif]><![if !mso]><span style='position:absolute;mso-ignore:vglayout;z-index:9'><table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="100%"><tr><td><![endif]><div v:shape="_x0000_s1034" style='padding:3.6pt 7.2pt 3.6pt 7.2pt' class=shape><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This week has been a busy one for trade unions, unfortunately due to the potentially negative impacts of two important pieces of news.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid #CFCFCF 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 3.0pt 0cm;background:#E5DFEC'><h1 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individual lobbyists and donors suspected of swaying Conservative Party opinion on controversial issues, but </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65;font-weight:normal'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/govt-leaps-trade-union-restrictions-first-sniff-lobbying-debate"><span style='color:#A43F65'>hits trade unions hard</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></h1><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Second, the decision on landmark TUPE case </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/ecj-unexpectedly-finds-favour-employer-alemo-herron-vs-parkwood-leisure-tupe-case"><span style='color:#A43F65'>Alemo-Herron vs. Parkwood Leisure</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'> was announced yesterday, finding in favour of the employer - a </span></div></div><![if 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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/govt-leaps-trade-union-restrictions-first-sniff-lobbying-debate"><img border=0 width=100 height=76 src="cid:image018.png@01CE84A1.7F74DF90" align=left hspace=12 alt=Logo.GIF title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_0"></a><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Government leaps for trade union restrictions at the first sniff of a lobbying debate</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:24.6pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>17 July 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>As anyone who has been following Prime Minister's Questions recently knows, the Tories have put their best efforts into deflecting any serious issue with yet another bash at the unions, and the critical problem of political lobbying is being twisted in the very same way. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/govt-leaps-trade-union-restrictions-first-sniff-lobbying-debate"><span style='color:#A43F65'>Read more…</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#413839'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1062" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Logo.GIF" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/collective-bargaining-key-equality-report-says" style='position:absolute;margin-left:1.5pt;margin-top:0;width:74.75pt;height:56.95pt;z-index:26;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:absolute;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text' wrapcoords="-433 0 -433 21050 21672 21050 21672 0 -433 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/collective-bargaining-key-equality-report-says"><img border=0 width=100 height=76 src="cid:image018.png@01CE84A1.7F74DF90" align=left hspace=12 alt=Logo.GIF title="" v:shapes="_x0000_s1062"></a><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Collective bargaining is key to equality, report says</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:24.6pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>19 July 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>A report by independent think tank the Smith Institute has concluded that trade union freedoms are key to greater earnings equality in the UK.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#413839'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/collective-bargaining-key-equality-report-says"><span style='color:#A43F65'>Read more…</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1061" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Logo.GIF" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/lack-workplace-heat-law-challenged" style='position:absolute;margin-left:1.5pt;margin-top:0;width:74.75pt;height:56.95pt;z-index:27;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:absolute;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text' wrapcoords="-433 0 -433 21050 21672 21050 21672 0 -433 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/lack-workplace-heat-law-challenged"><img border=0 width=100 height=76 src="cid:image018.png@01CE84A1.7F74DF90" align=left hspace=12 alt=Logo.GIF title="" v:shapes="_x0000_s1061"></a><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Lack of workplace heat law challenged</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:24.6pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>19 July 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>An Early Day Motion has been put forward by Labour MP Linda Riordan to challenge the lack of a workplace heat law in the UK. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/lack-workplace-heat-law-challenged"><span style='color:#A43F65'>Read more…</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1060" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Logo.GIF" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/ecj-unexpectedly-finds-favour-employer-alemo-herron-vs-parkwood-leisure-tupe-case" style='position:absolute;margin-left:1.5pt;margin-top:0;width:74.75pt;height:56.95pt;z-index:28;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:absolute;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text' wrapcoords="-433 0 -433 21050 21672 21050 21672 0 -433 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/ecj-unexpectedly-finds-favour-employer-alemo-herron-vs-parkwood-leisure-tupe-case"><img border=0 width=100 height=76 src="cid:image018.png@01CE84A1.7F74DF90" align=left hspace=12 alt=Logo.GIF title="" v:shapes="_x0000_s1060"></a><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>ECJ unexpectedly finds in favour of employer in Alemo-Herron vs. Parkwood Leisure TUPE case</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:24.6pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>19 July 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Trade unionists and lawyers have been waiting with baited breath for the decision, which it had been hoped would change TUPE law in favour of employees.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#413839'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/ecj-unexpectedly-finds-favour-employer-alemo-herron-vs-parkwood-leisure-tupe-case"><span style='color:#A43F65'>Read more…</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1059" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Logo.GIF" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/lobbying-bill-barely-touches-rich-slams-workers" style='position:absolute;margin-left:1.5pt;margin-top:0;width:74.75pt;height:56.95pt;z-index:29;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:absolute;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text' wrapcoords="-433 0 -433 21050 21672 21050 21672 0 -433 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/its-grim-down-south-how-north-south-divide-big-fat-myth"><img border=0 width=112 height=151 src="cid:image021.jpg@01CE84A1.7F74DF90" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Megan%20Dobney.img_assist_custom.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_47"></a><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Its grim down south: how the North-South divide is a big fat myth</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.45pt;text-indent:-10.45pt;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>1</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>9</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> July 2013</span></b><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>By Megan Dobney, Regional Secretary of Southern and Eastern TUC (SERTUC)<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p></div><div style='border:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 4.0pt 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Contrary to expectations workers in every corner of the country are in the same boat. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/what-have-unions-ever-done-us"><span style='color:#A43F65'>Read more…</span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div style='border:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 4.0pt 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:10.45pt;text-indent:-10.45pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Zero-hour contracts: bad news for workers, employers, service-users and the state</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:4.5pt;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:24.6pt;text-indent:-10.45pt;line-height:normal'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>19 July 2013</span></b><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#0C3A6E'> </span></i></b><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:10.45pt;text-indent:-10.45pt;line-height:normal'><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>By Christine Lewis, Unison national </span></i></b><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_72" o:spid="_x0000_s1055" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Christine%20Lewis.img_assist_custom.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/zero-hour-contracts-bad-news-workers-employers-service-users-and-state" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:-87.95pt;width:120.55pt;height:83.25pt;z-index:33;visibility:visible;mso-wrap-style:square;mso-wrap-distance-left:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-top:0;mso-wrap-distance-right:9pt;mso-wrap-distance-bottom:0;mso-position-horizontal:left;mso-position-horizontal-relative:text;mso-position-vertical:absolute;mso-position-vertical-relative:text' wrapcoords="-269 0 -269 21405 21501 21405 21501 0 -269 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/zero-hour-contracts-bad-news-workers-employers-service-users-and-state"><img border=0 width=161 height=111 src="cid:image025.jpg@01CE84A1.7F74DF90" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Christine%20Lewis.img_assist_custom.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_72"></a><![endif]><b><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>officer<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Zero-hours contracts hurt everyone, but particularly the vulnerable in our society including low-paid workers and care services users. </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/zero-hour-contracts-bad-news-workers-employers-service-users-and-state"><span style='color:#A43F65'>Read more…</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td></tr><tr style='height:4.0pt'><td width=897 colspan=3 valign=top style='width:672.95pt;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#E5DFEC;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:4.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Events and Conference Papers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td></tr><tr style='height:4.0pt'><td width=425 valign=top style='width:318.55pt;border:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#E5DFEC;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:4.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1046" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="ELU London cover website.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/employment-law-update-2013-ken-gill-memorial-fund" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:5.65pt;width:75.75pt;height:87.75pt;z-index:21;visibility:visible;mso-position-horizontal:left' o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/employment-law-update-2013-ken-gill-memorial-fund"><img border=0 width=101 height=117 src="cid:image045.jpg@01CE8499.83EC0970" align=left hspace=12 alt="ELU London cover website.jpg" v:shapes="_x0000_s1046"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Employment Law Update 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Wednesday 09 October 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>Unison, 130 Euston Road, London<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>This is the ninth annual Employment Law Update Conference organised by the Institute of Employment Rights held in association with old Square Chambers and the North West TUC. It is a must-go-to event for anyone with an interest in employment law and protection of collective and individual workers' rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/employment-law-update-2013-ken-gill-memorial-fund"><span style='color:#A43F65'>Read more and book your place here</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td><td width=473 colspan=2 valign=top style='width:354.4pt;border:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#E5DFEC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:4.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_40" o:spid="_x0000_s1045" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="ELU Liverpool cover.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/employment-law-update-2013-ken-gill-memorial-fund-0" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:13.15pt;width:75pt;height:88.5pt;z-index:20;visibility:visible;mso-position-horizontal:left' o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/employment-law-update-2013-ken-gill-memorial-fund-0"><img border=0 width=100 height=118 src="cid:image046.jpg@01CE8499.83EC0970" align=left hspace=12 alt="ELU Liverpool cover.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_40"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Employment Law Update 2013<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Wednesday 06 November 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This is the sixth annual Employment Law Update Conference organised by the Institute of Employment Rights held in association with old Square Chambers and the North West TUC. It is a must-go-to event for anyone with an interest in employment law and protection of collective and individual workers' rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/employment-law-update-2013-ken-gill-memorial-fund-0"><span style='color:#A43F65'>Read more and book your place here</span></a></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:4.0pt'><td width=425 valign=top style='width:318.55pt;border:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#E5DFEC;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:4.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_38" o:spid="_x0000_s1043" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="TUPE Update cover.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/tupe-update-new-regulations" style='position:absolute;margin-left:7.5pt;margin-top:0;width:75pt;height:87pt;z-index:18;visibility:visible' o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/tupe-update-new-regulations"><img border=0 width=100 height=116 src="cid:image047.jpg@01CE8499.83EC0970" align=left hspace=12 alt="TUPE Update cover.jpg" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_38"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>TUPE Update: The new regulations</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Wednesday 23 October 2013<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Unison, 130 Euston Road, London<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Our TUPE experts - both legal and trade union - will unpick the details of the new Regulations, including plans to abolish service change provisions, limit the applicability of collective agreements, remove protection against dismissal and more.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/tupe-update-new-regulations"><span style='color:#A43F65'>Read more and book your place here</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td><td width=473 colspan=2 valign=top style='width:354.4pt;border:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#E5DFEC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:4.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_41" o:spid="_x0000_s1044" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="Labour Migration in Hard Times Cover.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/labour-migration-hard-times" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:7.15pt;width:75pt;height:88.5pt;z-index:19;visibility:visible;mso-position-horizontal:left' o:button="t">
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The Institute, working with academics and other experts led by Bernard Ryan formerly of the University of Kent and soon to be at the University of Leicester, is publishing a new book about the plight of migrant workers and this conference will launch this new publication.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/labour-migration-hard-times"><span style='color:#A43F65'>Read more and book your place here</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:1.0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:4.0pt'><td width=425 valign=top style='width:318.55pt;border:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#E5DFEC;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:4.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_39" o:spid="_x0000_s1042" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="In Conversation - Dublin Lockout.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/%E2%80%98-conversation%E2%80%99-%E2%80%93-evening-event-dublin-lockout-learning-lessons-centenary-year" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:1.15pt;width:95.25pt;height:70.5pt;z-index:17;visibility:visible;mso-position-horizontal:left' o:button="t">
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The Irish TGWU struggled for better conditions which resulted in 300,000 workers and 27 unions being locked out of their workplaces. What lessons can we learn from this dispute and how does it inform our response to social injustice in today’s society.<i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/%E2%80%98-conversation%E2%80%99-%E2%80%93-evening-event-dublin-lockout-learning-lessons-centenary-year"><span style='color:#A43F65'>Read more and book your place here</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'> <span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:normal;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p></td><td width=473 colspan=2 valign=top style='width:354.4pt;border:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#E5DFEC;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm;height:4.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal 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style='margin-left:1.0cm;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Conference papers for free download<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0cm'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Now available:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0cm'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/health-and-safety-work"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Health and Safety at Work 2013 London</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0cm'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/health-and-safety-work-0"><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'>Health and Safety at Work 2013 Liverpool</span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#A43F65'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0cm'> <span style='font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-right:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm 4.0pt 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0cm;mso-element:frame;mso-element-frame-hspace:9.0pt;mso-element-wrap:around;mso-element-anchor-vertical:paragraph;mso-element-anchor-horizontal:column;mso-height-rule:exactly'><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:125%;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p></div></td></tr><tr style='height:4.0pt'><td width=425 valign=top style='width:318.55pt;border:none;border-left:solid windowtext 1.0pt;background:#E5DFEC;padding:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt;height:4.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal 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