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<span class="auto-style3">COMMENT: Troika-imposed neoliberalism undermines basic employment rights in Romania
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<span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;">In the second of our <a href="http://ier.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f121e48a8bb6d3101590c12d3&id=892ac2e739&e=0594b2782f">EU comparative series</a>, Lecturer in Human Resources Managament at Dublin City University Dr Aurora Trif explains how the Troika has imposed a neoliberalist economic strategy on Romania, leading to a decline in workers' wages and conditions.
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<span class="auto-style5">Access to Justice: Exposing the myths: £6</span><br><span style="color:#777777; font-size:12px;">
<b>By Andrew Moretta</b></span><br>
<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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<span class="auto-style5">Protect the right to strike: kill the bill:
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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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<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 class="auto-style5">The mythology of business: from £6<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
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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