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7.5pt;height:31.4pt'><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://ier.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=ba9eaa8efed32fc791ea26581&id=a99fe502e4&e=d05416d128"><span style='font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=927 height=148 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:image002.png@01D0829A.93170C00" alt="Institute of Employment Rights"></span></a><span style='font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#333333'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=946 style='width:709.35pt'><tr style='height:167.85pt'><td width=491 valign=top style='width:368.6pt;background:white;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt;height:167.85pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/human-rights-possibilities-and-problems-labour-law-london-0"><span style='color:windowtext;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none'><img border=0 width=457 height=697 id="_x0000_i1026" src="cid:image006.jpg@01D087F4.D74E0950"></span></a><br><br></span></b><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%'><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#336699'>Wednesday 1<sup>st</sup> July 2015, London</span></b><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Lucida Sans",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'>Go to</span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:navy'> </span><span style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>our <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/human-rights-possibilities-and-problems-labour-law-london-0">website</a><span style='color:navy'> </span>to book.</span><span style='font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'><br><br><br></span><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></td><td width=454 valign=top style='width:340.7pt;border:none;border-left:dashed #CCCCCC 1.0pt;background:white;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt;height:167.85pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><u><span style='font-size:22.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#C00000'><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/human-rights-possibilities-and-problems-labour-law-london-0"><span style='color:#C00000'>Book your place now for our Human Rights conference</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><b><i><span style='font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:150%'><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#FFC000'>Programme:</span></i></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222A35;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#222A35;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>9.30 Registration<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222A35;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#222A35;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222A35;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#222A35;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'>9.50 Welcome from Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#222A35;mso-style-textfill-fill-color:#222A35;mso-style-textfill-fill-alpha:100.0%'> <i>Carolyn Jones, Director IER<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>10.00 Human rights at work: A post-election overview<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <i>Keith Ewing, President<span style='color:#1F497D'>, </span>IER<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>10.30 <span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>Surveillance and Monitoring at Work: How much is <span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>too much?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <i>Shah Qureshi & Peter Daly, Bindmans Solicitors<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>11.00 Questions and discussion <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>11:15 BREAK <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>11:30 Blacklisting: No respect for private and family life<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <i>Alex Just, Old Square Chambers<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>12.00 <span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>Raising complaints to International bodies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><i>Daniel Blackburn, Director, International Centre for <span style='color:#1F497D'> </span>Trade Union Rights<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>12.30 Questions and discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>12.45 LUNCH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>1.45 Access to Justice<span style='color:#1F497D'>, Article 6 and the right to a fair hearing</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <i>Morag McDermot, University of Bristol Law School<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>2.15 Human Rights for Domestic Workers<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <i>Virginia Mantouvalou, UCL<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>2.45 Discrimination at work: Can Article 14 assist?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> <i>Aileen McColgan, Matrix Chambers<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>3.00 Questions and discussion<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>3.30 Close</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td></tr><tr style='height:.2pt'><td width=946 colspan=2 valign=top style='width:709.35pt;background:#CCCCCC;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt;height:.2pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:7.5pt'><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr><tr style='height:211.95pt'><td width=432 valign=top style='width:324.35pt;background:white;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt;height:211.95pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>At the Tory party conference in 2014, Cameron announced that he was ready to remove the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights. In April 2015 that threat was included in the Conservative Party election manifesto, reflecting Tory plans to replace the Human Rights Act 1998 with a British Bill of Rights.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>So what would be the impact of such a change on workers’ rights? To begin with it would enable British Judges to ignore rulings of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) and would undermine the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) – the international treaty first drafted in the post-war years to protect fundamental rights and freedoms.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:150%'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>A flood of watchdogs and organisations have come out against the move, which despite government claims, is clearly intended to remove rather than strengthen civil liberties and will further deregulate and remove health and safety and employment protections from the statute book. <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td width=473 valign=top style='width:355.1pt;border:none;border-left:dashed #CCCCCC 1.0pt;background:white;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt;height:211.95pt'><p style='line-height:150%;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The plan has been extensively critiqued by the Tories own Dominic Grieve, who said; “Such a course may be strictly lawful, but its practical consequences are likely to be as devastating both for ourselves domestically as it will be for the future of the <span style='color:#1F497D'>C</span>onvention.” And the Shadow Justice Secretary, Sadiq Khan said; “five more years of the Tories would mean the systematic dismantling of the postwar human rights system that has done so much to protect people’s basic rights” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='line-height:150%;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>So what would withdrawal from the ECHR mean for employment rights and worker protections? This conference aims to shed light on the issues by focusing on the kind of workplace abuses that the Convention aims to protect us against. So, whether it’s surveillance at work, blacklisting of trade unionists, the systematic removal of access to justice or the need to defend the protections provided against discrimination under Article 14 of the Convention, expert speakers at this event will look at the possibilities and problems of the developing human rights agenda.</span><span lang=EN style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:.25pt'><td width=432 valign=top style='width:324.35pt;background:white;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt;height:.25pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:3.0pt;background:white'><b><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#CA232A'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p></td><td width=473 valign=top style='width:355.1pt;border:none;border-left:dashed #CCCCCC 1.0pt;background:white;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt;height:.25pt'><h2 style='background:white'><i><span lang=EN style='font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></h2></td></tr><tr style='height:.85pt'><td width=906 colspan=2 valign=top style='width:679.5pt;background:#CCCCCC;padding:15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt 15.0pt;height:.85pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:1.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=1 height=1 id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image003.gif@01D01913.2879FA60" alt="cid:image003.gif@01D01913.2879FA60"><o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Checked by AVG - </span><a href="http://www.avg.com"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>www.avg.com</span></a><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><br>Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.12/2235 <span style='color:#1F497D'>–</span> <span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#003768'><br><b><i>Confidentiality:-</i></b><i> This email, its contents and any attachments are intended only for the above named. 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