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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><o:p> </o:p></span></h3><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Pay and Benefits<o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;margin-left:24.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;line-height:14.4pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;color:#413839'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>·<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'> </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Lib Dems push controversial pension scheme 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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/home-office-dishes-out-%C2%A365m-bonuses-following-mass-redundancies"><img border=0 width=100 height=74 src="cid:image001.gif@01CF1EA1.49510C50" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/ierlogo-newssection.thumbnail.gif" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_5"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/home-office-dishes-out-%C2%A365m-bonuses-following-mass-redundancies"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Home Office dishes out £6.5m in bonuses following mass redundancies</span></a></span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>The Home Affairs Committee has published a report on the work of the Permanent Secretary, which showed that the Home Office has paid huge bonuses to its staff despite the government making hundreds of thousands of people redundant due to the ‘financial situation’.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/home-office-dishes-out-%C2%A365m-bonuses-following-mass-redundancies"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Read more...</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_6" o:spid="_x0000_s1050" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/ierlogo-newssection.thumbnail.gif" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/real-wages-have-been-falling-1970s-and-living-standards-are-not-about-recover" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:263.25pt;margin-top:-42.75pt;width:75pt;height:55.5pt;z-index:-25;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="-432 0 -432 18681 1296 21016 21600 21016 21600 2335 20304 0 -432 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/new-tupe-regulations-come-effect"><img border=0 width=100 height=74 src="cid:image001.gif@01CF1EA1.49510C50" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/ierlogo-newssection.thumbnail.gif" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_7"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/new-tupe-regulations-come-effect"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>New TUPE regulations come into effect</span></a></span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>The Coalition's new TUPE regulations came into effect today (31 January 2014), weakening protection for workers whose jobs are being transferred to a new employer.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/new-tupe-regulations-come-effect"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Read more...</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:0cm'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Health and safety<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_8" o:spid="_x0000_s1048" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/ierlogo-newssection.thumbnail.gif" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/cameron-boasts-cuts-safety-regulations" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:9.75pt;width:75pt;height:55.5pt;z-index:-23;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="-432 0 -432 18681 1296 21016 21600 21016 21600 2335 20304 0 -432 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/tories-refuse-apologise-plan-disrupt-strike-troops"><img border=0 width=100 height=74 src="cid:image001.gif@01CF1EA1.49510C50" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/ierlogo-newssection.thumbnail.gif" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_13"></a><![endif]><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/tories-refuse-apologise-plan-disrupt-strike-troops"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Tories refuse to apologise for plan to disrupt strike with troops</span></a></span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>The Conservative Party has refused to issue an apology on behalf of Margaret Thatcher’s government for its plans to send troops in to break up the miners’ strike and for lying to the public about the scale of pit shutdowns.<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/tories-refuse-apologise-plan-disrupt-strike-troops"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Read more...</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_14" o:spid="_x0000_s1042" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/ierlogo-newssection.thumbnail.gif" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/tory-wants-minimise-effect-human-rights-charter" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:8.3pt;width:75pt;height:55.5pt;z-index:-17;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="-432 0 -432 18681 1296 21016 21600 21016 21600 2335 20304 0 -432 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/lord-freud-celebrates-reserve-army-desperate-unemployed"><img border=0 width=150 height=105 src="cid:image006.jpg@01CF1EA1.49510C50" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Sarah%20Glenister.img_assist_custom.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_20"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Workers' rights<o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/lord-freud-celebrates-reserve-army-desperate-unemployed"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Lord Freud celebrates reserve army of desperate unemployed</span></a></span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>By Sarah Glenister, IER staff</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>In a speech yesterday (28 January 2014) to the National Youth Employment Summit, Lord Freud celebrated the new “flexibility” of workers expected following the introduction of Universal Credit (UC).<span class=apple-converted-space> </span><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/lord-freud-celebrates-reserve-army-desperate-unemployed"><span style='color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'>Read more...</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width="40%" valign=top style='width:40.0%;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>MA in International Labour & Trade Union Studies (ILTUS) at</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Ruskin College, Oxford</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Recruiting now</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://www.ruskin.ac.uk/course/84/1/Summary"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=300 height=87 id="Picture_x0020_21" src="cid:image007.jpg@01CF1EA1.49510C50" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Ruskin%20College%20Newsbrief%20advert.jpg"></span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/jobs"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=300 height=372 id="Picture_x0020_22" src="cid:image008.jpg@01CF1EA1.49510C50" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Morning-Star's-hiring%20(3).img_assist_custom.jpg"></span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_23" o:spid="_x0000_s1035" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/ad%20banner%20narrow.img_assist_custom.jpg" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:123.75pt;margin-top:-42.75pt;width:150pt;height:99.75pt;z-index:-1;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="-216 0 -216 21438 21600 21438 21600 0 -216 0">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/pensions-changes-and-challenges"><img border=0 width=100 height=118 src="cid:image015.jpg@01CF1EA1.49510C50" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Pensions%20London.img_assist_custom.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_29"></a><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Wednesday 12 February 2014</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><br><i>A one-day conference</i><br>Unite the Union, London<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_30" o:spid="_x0000_s1028" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Pensions%20Liverpool.img_assist_custom.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/pensions-changes-and-challenges-0" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:0;margin-top:10.55pt;width:75pt;height:88.5pt;z-index:-8;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="-432 0 -432 21234 21600 21234 21600 0 -432 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/pensions-changes-and-challenges-0"><img border=0 width=100 height=118 src="cid:image016.jpg@01CF1EA1.49510C50" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Pensions%20Liverpool.img_assist_custom.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_30"></a><![endif]><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Wednesday 26 February 2014</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><br>A one-day conference<br>Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><h3 style='mso-margin-top-alt:3.0pt;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'>Access to Justice: Employment tribunals at a crossroads</span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#66667F'><o:p></o:p></span></h3><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="Picture_x0020_31" o:spid="_x0000_s1027" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Access%20to%20Justice%20Liverpool.img_assist_custom.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/access-justice-0" style='position:absolute;margin-left:0;margin-top:26.25pt;width:75pt;height:87.75pt;z-index:-9;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="-432 0 -432 21415 21600 21415 21600 0 -432 0" o:button="t">
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</v:shape><![endif]--><![if !vml]><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/access-justice-0"><img border=0 width=100 height=117 src="cid:image017.jpg@01CF1EA1.49510C50" align=left hspace=12 alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Access%20to%20Justice%20Liverpool.img_assist_custom.jpg" title="" v:shapes="Picture_x0020_31"></a><![endif]><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'>Wednesday 05 March 2014</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'><br>A one-day conference<br>Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:14.4pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#413839'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><!--[if gte vml 1]><v:shape id="_x0000_s1026" type="#_x0000_t75" alt="http://www.ier.org.uk/sites/ier.org.uk/files/images/Access%20to%20Justice%20London.img_assist_custom.jpg" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/access-justice-1" style='position:absolute;left:0;text-align:left;margin-left:161.25pt;margin-top:-1194pt;width:75pt;height:87.75pt;z-index:-10;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="-432 0 -432 21415 21600 21415 21600 0 -432 0" o:button="t">
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