Deadline extended for the recruitment of our research team to work on the UKRI-funded project on remedies in comparative labour law UoM Law, The University of Manchester. Four post-doc positions available: France: jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?… Greece: jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?…

Excited to see the publication of the 'Oxford Handbook of the Law of Work'. Containing no less than 60 separate entries written by a range of scholars! I have a chapter on migrant workers (ch 52 Building Less Precarious Futures for Non-Citizen Workers). global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Together we are stronger.   Together we can rebuild our communities.   Together we can win for working people.   Together – we are unstoppable. - @Nowak_Paul to #TUC24

A very timely & important blog piece from Nicola Countouris, Prof Keith Ewing & Lord John Hendy KC: A new ‘single status of worker’ definition must be an essential part of The Labour Party’s plan: ier.org.uk/comments/a-new… #TUC2024 #TUC24

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Her White Paper, In Place of Strife, was a serious contribution to industrial relations reform, and Barbara Castle herself was a serious thinker and politician.

✍️ Call for abstracts! 🗓️ The fifth annual #FutureOfWork conference will take place in February 2025, a joint initiative between the ETUI and KU Leuven 🌐 This event seeks to explore the profound impact of digital technology, #GenerativeAI and #AlgorithmicManagement on the

The government's employment rights bill is a big deal. From overhauling unfair dismissal protection, to getting zero hours workers onto secure contracts, to enabling unions to recruit in new workplaces, it could shake up employment relations.

'The Strikes (Minimum Service Levels) Act 2023 is repealed'. A short but historic statutory utterance in the Employment Rights Bill published today, making the first major reversal in the long evolution of restriction method in UK strike law since 1974. Hopefully more to come!

“If unions don’t have the power to take industrial action or threaten industrial action, then they’ve got no leverage in collective bargaining” - John Hendy KC in conversation with Prof Keith Ewing. Stream the new IER podcast series, just launched, here: ier.org.uk/the-ier-podcas…

We’re proud to support Institute of Employment Rights in launching their new six-part podcast series 🎙️. In this series, expert labour law voices break down the employment reforms introduced by the Labour government and explore what these changes mean for workers across the UK. At Thompsons, we’ve

A truly excellent talk and discussion of Judy Fudge’s new book 'Constructing Modern Slavery: Law, Capitalism and Unfree Labour’. Thanks to Jule Mulder, @DrPMCollins Katie Bales (she/her) Manoj Dias-Abey Bristol Law School

The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of trade union members employed by the transport company Nexus on the Tyne and Wear Metro in a judgment that clarifies the legal standing of collective agreements and the rights of employees to enforce them. The judgment stems from a

Happy #LancashireDay! 🌹

10 Great Books on Neoliberalism 1) The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order - Gary Gerstle Fantastic recent addition to this literature, places neoliberalism within the context of the decline of the post war consensus, as well as the multiple forces behind the ideological shift.

Our latest #IERpodcast, ‘Laws fit for Workplace Equality’ featuring Joe Atkinson & Sandra Fredman is now availible to stream from our website, Spotify, Apple, YouTube, Deezer & Amazon Music - links here: ier.org.uk/the-ier-podcas…

#CollectiveBargaining, #Unions, and the #WageStructure: An International Perspective by Simon Jäger @snaidunl and Benjamin Schoefer via NBER nber.org/papers/w33315

Solidarity with the Birmingham bin strikers

🗓️29 Sept | Increme(n)tal Project 🇪🇺 Transnational Training Session 🔎#MentalHealth at #Work: Policies, Practices, and Prevention Strategies Across Europe and Beyond 🔗 Info and Agenda: adapt.it/incremental/ 📝 Register here for online attendance: surveymonkey.com/r/Incremental_…