<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206); margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><table width="600" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F2E3CE" style="position: static; z-index: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td width="56%" class="blue" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-size: 15px;">IER Conferences</td><td width="40%" align="right" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><a href="http://www.twitter.com/ieruk" class="blue" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-size: 15px;">Follow us on Twitter</a></td><td width="4%" align="right" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"> </td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto;"><tbody><tr><td width="75%" bgcolor="#66667f" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><div class="heading1" style="font-size: 40px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: bold;"><a name="Top of page"></a>Are you ready for the referendum?</div><div class="heading2" style="font-size: 18px; color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding-left: 4px; margin: -8px 0px 8px;">Liverpool, 09th March 2016</div></td><td width="25%" bgcolor="#66667f" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/8ed8c1ba-51a4-46ad-a22f-6e685687a175.gif"></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="15"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="position: static; z-index: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><img alt="" src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/1bbf8aca-fffc-4609-938b-8005caa88d5e.png" width="300" style="float: left;"><p class="auto-style2" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-weight: bold; font-size: 17px;"><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-liverpool-0">Read more and book</a></p><p class="auto-style2" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-weight: bold; font-size: 17px;">Cameron has now set a date for the EU referendum of 23 June 2016. But are you ready for the vote? <br><br>While EU employment laws and the human rights convention offer some protection to UK workers - particularly under a government that aims to minimise workers’ rights where it can - many are concerned the dream of Social Europe has been corrupted and replaced with a neoliberal agenda.</p><p class="auto-style2" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-weight: bold; font-size: 17px;">EU economic policy emphasises austerity and incentivises governments to provide cheap labour over high-quality jobs; landmark cases such as those of <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/system/files/Understanding+the+Viking+and+Laval+cases.pdf">Viking and Laval</a> have found in favour of corporations’ right to search the globe for cheap labour over the right of workers to fair pay and conditions; and now TTIP threatens to give corporations enormous power over national policymaking.</p><p class="auto-style2" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-weight: bold; font-size: 17px;">Indeed, leading EU expert Michael Bowsher QC today warned that the trade deal poses a “<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/22/ttip-deal-real-serious-risk-nhs-leading-qc">real and serious risk</a>” to the government’s ability to freely make decisions regarding the NHS.</p><p class="auto-style2" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-weight: bold; font-size: 17px;">Following our<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-london-0">popular London event</a>, our expert panel of speakers now come to Liverpool to help ensure your votes are fully informed come the referendum.</p><p class="auto-style2" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-weight: bold; font-size: 17px;"><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-liverpool-0">Book now</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for this unique opportunity to ask questions of some of the UK's leading lawyers, academics and trade unionists on the EU debate.</p><p class="auto-style7" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-weight: normal; font-size: x-large;"><strong>Speakers:</strong></p><p class="auto-style5" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-weight: normal; font-size: 17px;"><strong>Sonia McKay<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em>Visiting Professor of the University of the West of England</em><strong>. John Hendy QC<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em>Old Square Chambers and IER</em><strong>. Kathleen Walker Shaw<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em>GMB.</em><strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Professor Keith Ewing<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em>King’s College London and IER</em><strong>. Professor John Foster<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em>Academic</em><strong>. Professor Michael Doherty<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em>Maynooth University Department of Law</em><strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Dominique Lauterburg<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em>MMU</em><strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Kevan Nelson<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></strong><em>UNISON</em><strong>.</strong></p><p class="auto-style3" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-weight: bold; font-size: xx-large;"><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-liverpool-0"><span class="auto-style6" style="color: rgb(149, 149, 171);">Click here to read more and book</span></a></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td height="15" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td width="64%" valign="top" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><span class="blue" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 127); font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold;">To unsubscribe, please contact<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:sarah@ier.org.uk?subject=Unsubscribe">sarah@ier.org.uk</a>.</span><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td height="15" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"></td></tr></tbody></table></td><td align="right" valign="top" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><table width="88%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: 9px;">Produced by:<br>Institute of Employment Rights,<br>4th Floor, Jack Jones House<br>1 Islington<br>Liverpool L3 8EG<br>0151 207 5265<br><a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/" target="_blank" class="blueLink" style="font-size: 9px; color: rgb(48, 126, 194); text-decoration: none;">www.ier.org.uk</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td height="20" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(242, 227, 206);"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>