<html><body><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><table width="600" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="0" bgcolor="#F2E3CE" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td width="56%" class="blue" style="font-size: 15px;" data-mce-style="font-size: 15px;">IER News Brief 26/02/16</td><td width="40%" align="right"><a href="http://www.twitter.com/ieruk" class="blue" style="font-size: 15px;" data-mce-href="http://www.twitter.com/ieruk" data-mce-style="font-size: 15px;">Follow us on Twitter</a></td><td width="4%" align="right"> </td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellpadding="15" cellspacing="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td width="75%" bgcolor="#66667f"><div class="heading1"><a name="Top of page" class="mce-item-anchor"></a>news brief</div><div class="heading2">Friday 26th February 2016</div></td><td width="25%" bgcolor="#66667f"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/ad06b2f8-8ced-4a82-af2f-6d614625a288.gif" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/ad06b2f8-8ced-4a82-af2f-6d614625a288.gif"></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="15" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td class="auto-style2">This week, the Trade Union Bill was once more debated in the House of Lords, with strong opposition coming not only from the Labour and Liberal Democrat Parties but also Conservative peers.<br><br>Despite the likelihood of defeat in the Lords, the government said it would push ahead with the Bill without making changes to the contentious Clauses discussed this week (including limiting facility time and prohibiting check-off arrangements).<br><br>On Monday, the Tories published skeleton regulations for their plans on facility time and check-off, but these were attacked in the Lords as being poorly drafted and unclear, and for not providing adequate clarification as to which public sector bodies would be affected.<br><br>Read our <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/taxonomy/term/511" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/taxonomy/term/511"> <span class="auto-style13">reports from the Lords</span></a> for further detail.<br><br>Elsewhere, the Brexit debate rages on, with pressure from both the right and left-wing to leave the EU. The IER will host <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-liverpool-0" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-liverpool-0"> <span class="auto-style13">a debate with an expert panel of speakers</span></a> on the pros and cons of the trade bloc for trade unions on 09 March in Liverpool. Following the announcement of the referendum for June 23, seats at this event are filling up quickly, so please <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-liverpool-0" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/events/eu-developments-has-social-europe-disintegrated-liverpool-0"> <span class="auto-style13">book now</span></a> to avoid disappointment.<br><br> Subscribers receive all of our publications free and discount rates on our conferences. <a href="http://www.ier.org.uk/subscribe" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/subscribe"> <span class="auto-style13">Subscribe now</span></a></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3" style="height: 51px;" data-mce-style="height: 51px;"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="height: 50px;" data-mce-style="height: 50px;" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td height="15"></td></tr><tr><td height="15" bgcolor="#A43F65" class="auto-style4"> News and comment</td></tr><tr><td height="5" class="auto-style4"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top" style="height: 98px;" data-mce-style="height: 98px;"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/3217d00c-d174-45e5-a9cf-a588a59f2af4.jpg" width="99" height="98" alt="They are not 8, we are thousands" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/3217d00c-d174-45e5-a9cf-a588a59f2af4.jpg"></td><td style="width: 4%; height: 98px;" data-mce-style="width: 4%; height: 98px;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top" style="height: 98px;" data-mce-style="height: 98px;"><span class="auto-style3">UNISON to appeal its case for judicial review</span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;">The Supreme Court has permitted UNISON to appeal against the decision of the Court of Appeal, which last year ruled that the public sector union could not put the government's employment tribunal restrictions through judicial review. </span> <br> <a class="purpleLink" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/unison-appeal-its-case-judicial-review-employment-tribunal-fees" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/unison-appeal-its-case-judicial-review-employment-tribunal-fees">> click here to read full story</a></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/835ba799-bda9-43f7-b649-acb084be78ac.jpg" width="99" height="98" alt="They are not 8, we are thousands" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/835ba799-bda9-43f7-b649-acb084be78ac.jpg"></td><td style="width: 4%;" data-mce-style="width: 4%;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top"><span class="auto-style3">Campaign promotes equal opportunity for people beginning a career in equality and human rights</span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;">The Equal Rights Trust has launched its Bob Hepple Memorial Fund to help those at the start of their career in equality and human rights through paid internship and fellowship placements with the Trust. </span> <br> <a class="purpleLink" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/campaign-promotes-equal-opportunity-people-beginning-career-equality-and-human-rights" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/campaign-promotes-equal-opportunity-people-beginning-career-equality-and-human-rights"> > click here to read full story</a></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/bbeced9b-f5a9-4357-b9c8-02e97839eab2.jpg" width="99" height="98" alt="Trade Union Bill" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/bbeced9b-f5a9-4357-b9c8-02e97839eab2.jpg"></td><td style="width: 4%;" data-mce-style="width: 4%;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top"><span class="auto-style3">Labour, Lib Dems and Tories oppose check-off ban but govt steams ahead</span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;">In its fourth day at Committee Stage in the House of Lords, the Trade Union Bill saw enormous opposition to Clause 14 - the prohibition on check-off arrangements in the public sector - being demonstrated from all benches. </span><br> <a class="purpleLink" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/labour-lib-dems-and-tories-oppose-check-ban-govt-steams-ahead" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/labour-lib-dems-and-tories-oppose-check-ban-govt-steams-ahead"> > click here to read full story</a></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top" style="height: 98px;" data-mce-style="height: 98px;"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/bbeced9b-f5a9-4357-b9c8-02e97839eab2.jpg" width="99" height="98" alt="Carolyn Jones" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/bbeced9b-f5a9-4357-b9c8-02e97839eab2.jpg"></td><td style="width: 4%; height: 98px;" data-mce-style="width: 4%; height: 98px;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top" style="height: 98px;" data-mce-style="height: 98px;"><span class="auto-style3">Lords object to govt’s “transparency” argument around political funds and facility time</span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;">Peers from across parties objected to the government’s argument that publishing details around unions’ political funds and facility time were principally proposed to encourage “transparency”.</span><br> <a class="purpleLink" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/lords-object-govt%25E2%2580%2599s-%25E2%2580%259Ctransparency%25E2%2580%259D-argument-around-political-funds-and-facility-time" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/lords-object-govt%25E2%2580%2599s-%25E2%2580%259Ctransparency%25E2%2580%259D-argument-around-political-funds-and-facility-time"> > click here to read full story</a></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/bbeced9b-f5a9-4357-b9c8-02e97839eab2.jpg" width="99" height="98" alt="Trade Union Bill" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/bbeced9b-f5a9-4357-b9c8-02e97839eab2.jpg"></td><td style="width: 4%;" data-mce-style="width: 4%;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top"><span class="auto-style3">Facility time “delivers clear cost benefits”, study shows </span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;">As the House of Lords return to debate the Trade Union Bill in its third day at Committee stage, including planned restrictions on facility time in the public sector research conducted at the University of Bradford has shown that paid time off for union reps deliver “clear cost benefits” for the public purse. </span><br> <a class="purpleLink" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/facility-time-%25E2%2580%259Cdelivers-clear-cost-benefits%25E2%2580%259D-study-shows" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/news/facility-time-%25E2%2580%259Cdelivers-clear-cost-benefits%25E2%2580%259D-study-shows"> > click here to read full story</a></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/35a8f961-0468-4ce5-80fc-13b4141533e4.jpg" width="99" height="98" alt="Trade Union Bill" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/35a8f961-0468-4ce5-80fc-13b4141533e4.jpg"></td><td style="width: 4%;" data-mce-style="width: 4%;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top"><span class="auto-style3">COMMENT: Public sector exit payment caps will penalise low earners </span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;">Unison Policy Assistant Michelle Singleton explains how the government's</span><span class="auto-style14"> new regulations around public sector exit payments will catch out people on lower wages as well as the higher earners at which it is ostensibly aimed.</span><br> <a class="purpleLink" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/public-sector-exit-payment-caps-will-penalise-low-earners-unless-govt-listens-today" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/public-sector-exit-payment-caps-will-penalise-low-earners-unless-govt-listens-today"> > click here to read full story</a></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/a9d92fb1-5a31-442b-bae4-c11fdbf2d392.jpg" width="99" height="98" alt="Trade Union Bill" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/a9d92fb1-5a31-442b-bae4-c11fdbf2d392.jpg"></td><td style="width: 4%;" data-mce-style="width: 4%;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top"><span class="auto-style3">COMMENT: Zero Hours – Zero Solutions </span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;">Professor Mark Freedland and Jeremias Prassl, both of Oxford University, highlight the problems with zero-hour contracts and the ineffectiveness of government programmes to regulate them.</span><br> <a class="purpleLink" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/zero-hours-%25E2%2580%2593-zero-solutions" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/blog/zero-hours-%25E2%2580%2593-zero-solutions"> > click here to read full story</a></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td height="15"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3" style="height: 15px;" data-mce-style="height: 15px;"></td></tr><tr><td height="15" bgcolor="#5bafac" class="auto-style4"> Publications</td></tr><tr><td height="5"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/c5eda394-4a1b-4f23-a06d-10fb0aee7156.jpg" width="99" height="142" alt="Kill the Bill" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/c5eda394-4a1b-4f23-a06d-10fb0aee7156.jpg"></td><td style="width: 4%;" data-mce-style="width: 4%;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top"><span class="auto-style5">Protect the right to strike: kill the bill: £5</span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;"> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;"> <b>By John Hendy QC & Professor Keith Ewing</b></span><br>Two leading experts on trade union rights – Professor Keith Ewing and John Hendy QC – publish a short but comprehensive overview of the Trade Union Bill and its implications.</span><br> <a class="purpleLink" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/protect-right-strike-kill-bill" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/protect-right-strike-kill-bill"> > click here to read more and purchase</a></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/2924ab3a-4d27-4f38-885f-d69c2be303f9.jpg" width="99" height="142" alt="Ballot Thresholds" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/2924ab3a-4d27-4f38-885f-d69c2be303f9.jpg"></td><td style="width: 4%;" data-mce-style="width: 4%;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top"><span class="auto-style5">The Conservative Government’s proposed strike ballot thresholds: The challenge to trade unions: from £6</span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;"> <b>By Professor Ralph Darlington and Dr John Dobson</b><br>According to the authors of this timely report, the government is attempting to rush into law ‘the most sweeping and radical tightening of rules on industrial action since the Thatcher era of the 1980’s’. They warn that such proposals could result in ‘the biggest showdown over industrial relations for a generation’.</span><br> <a class="purpleLink" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/conservative-government%E2%80%99s-proposed-strike-ballot-thresholds-challenge-trade-unions-0" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/conservative-government%E2%80%99s-proposed-strike-ballot-thresholds-challenge-trade-unions-0"> > click here to read more and purchase</a></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/a68938d8-66f8-4dbc-aa37-5ebef943fc38.jpg" width="99" height="141" alt="Keithe Ewing" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/a68938d8-66f8-4dbc-aa37-5ebef943fc38.jpg"></td><td style="width: 4%;" data-mce-style="width: 4%;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top"><span class="auto-style5">The mythology of business: from £6<br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;"> <b>By David Whyte</b></span></span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;">The ‘myths’ that this publication takes into consideration are the kind of things that politicians now routinely say without thinking. Yet these 10 myths have very little foundation in reality and are rarely, if ever, accompanied with any concrete evidence to support them.</span><br> <a class="purpleLink" href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/mythology-business" data-mce-href="http://www.ier.org.uk/publications/mythology-business"> > click here to read more and purchase</a></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td colspan="3" style="height: 51px;" data-mce-style="height: 51px;"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="height: 50px;" data-mce-style="height: 50px;" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td height="15" class="auto-style8"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mce-item-table"><tbody><tr><td></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td height="15" bgcolor="#773b6a" class="auto-style4"> Events</td></tr><tr><td height="5"></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td height="15"></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/08f4b78b-6d0d-401b-843f-32d5a8b47293.jpg" width="99" height="117" alt="International Women's Day" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/08f4b78b-6d0d-401b-843f-32d5a8b47293.jpg"></td><td style="width: 4%;" data-mce-style="width: 4%;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top"><span class="auto-style6">International Women's Day 2016: Women of Palestine - living through trauma; building resilience</span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;"><strong>05 March 2016 - 13:00 - 17:00<br>Cross Street Chapel, Manchester, M2 1NL </strong><br>Manchester Palestine Solidarity Campaign invites women and men for Palestinian food, speeches from psychotherapists and activists, plus a film screening, workshops, and panel discussions with Angela Rayner MP.</span></td></tr><tr><td width="14%" valign="top"><img src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/7c7375b9-117a-46b7-9902-eb2df87df038.jpg" width="99" height="117" alt="EU Developments" data-mce-src="https://gallery.mailchimp.com/f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3/images/7c7375b9-117a-46b7-9902-eb2df87df038.jpg"></td><td style="width: 4%;" data-mce-style="width: 4%;"></td><td width="82%" valign="top"><span class="auto-style6">LIVERPOOL: EU Developments: has social Europe disintegrated?</span><br> <span style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;" data-mce-style="color: #777777; font-size: 12px;"><strong>09 March 2016 - 09:30 - 15:30<br>Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool</strong><br>Does the EU protect our rights at work and promote prosperity and jobs? Or is it a ‘bosses club’ that places freedom of capital over workers’ rights? Is social Europe growing or withering? 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