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<span class="auto-style3">Committee warns against “unnecessary” British Bill of Rights</span><br>
<span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;">The House of Lords’ EU Justice Committee today (09 May 2016) published a report on its inquiry into the government’s plans for a British Bill of Rights, warning that there is little justification for the change and that it poses a risk to the British constitution.
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<span class="auto-style3">Universal Credit means more stress, less training, and surveillance, research shows
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<span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;">New research from the University of York into the recent Universal Credit (UC) pilot has found the benefit regime has a negative impact on claimants and does not succeed at helping people increase their income.
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<span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;">An unsustainable long-hours culture is emerging among senior civil servants, demonstrating how government policy has worsened working conditions in the sector it uses as its “guinea pig” for reform.
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<span class="auto-style3">Amount of money owed to workers more than tripled last year
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<span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;">There was a substantial increase in reports of employers not paying National Minimum Wage in 2015-16, according to a new report from the National Audit Office.
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<span class="auto-style3">IER report: Repeal of Human Rights Act will undermine whistleblowers
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<span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;">Whistleblowers will lose the protection of Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights - the Right to Expression - if the UK government repeals the Human Rights Act.
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<span class="auto-style3">COMMENT: Remain or Leave - trade deals still pose major threats to workers
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<span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;">Adrian Weir of Unite explains how TTIP and similar international trade deals will continue to be a threat regardless of the outcome of the EU referendum, and must therefore be fought on a separate battleground.
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<span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;">European Conventions protect workers in a number of ways: the right not to be forced into labour – a growing concern with the roll out of Universal Credit; the right to respect for private and family life; freedom of expression without interference by public authorities; freedom of assembly and association - protections that trade unions used to argue against the Trade Union Bill; and the right not to be discriminated against at work.<br><br>
These basic rights form the basis of any civilised society so how can we ensure that these protections are included in any British Bill of Rights?<br><br> Speakers include <b>Professor Keith Ewing</b>, (IER, KCL); <b>Jo Seery</b>, (Thompsons Solicitors); <b>Robert Knox</b>, (University of Liverpool); <b>Hannah Reed</b>, (TUC); <b>Paul Draycott</b>, (Doughty Street Chambers); <b>David Whyte & Stefanie Khoury</b>, (University of Liverpool).</span><br>
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<span class="auto-style5">Access to Justice: Exposing the myths: £6</span><br><span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;">
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<span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;">In the second of IER’s series of Mythbusters, Andrew Moretta considers the many myths surrounding access to justice, including the narrative surrounding the “red tape” and “burdens on business” ideology, which he believes paved the way for systematic attacks on the tribunal system.</span><br>
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<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>
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<span class="auto-style5">The Conservative Government’s proposed strike ballot thresholds: The challenge to trade unions:
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<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’ and go on to drill down into one aspect of the government’s proposals – strike ballots.</span><br>
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<span 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>
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<span class="auto-style6">LONDON: Public Sector cuts, Privatisation and Employment Rights</span><br>
<span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;"><strong>15 June
2016 - 09:30 - 15:30<br>Unite the Union, London</strong><br>How far
has the Government gone towards its promised British Bill of Rights? More importantly, how would such changes impact on the rights of UK citizens at work, in society and in the economy?</span><br>
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<span class="auto-style6">LIVERPOOL: Public Sector cuts, Privatisation and Employment Rights</span><br>
<span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;"><strong>05 July
2016 - 09:30 - 15:30<br>Unite the Union, Liverpool</strong><br>How far
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