This article explores the opportunities and challenges for trade unions where an employer voluntarily agrees to pay a ‘’living wage’ in accordance with the UK living wage campaign. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/irj.12132
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UK: “British union renewal: does salvation really lie beyond the workplace
The authors explore the potential to recruit migrant workers by offering individual union services outside the workplace. This has been a successful recruitment innovation, but has some limitations to which …
“UK government to ban restaurant owners from taking share of tips”
[Direct Quote of Online Abstract (in front of paywall): “Trade unions have experienced significant turbulence over the past three decades. In the UK and Ireland, a key change has been …
UK: University and College Union v The University of Stirling (Scotland) (Rev 1) [2015] UKSC 26
The United Kingdom (“U.K.”) Supreme Court found that an employer that wants to “dismiss as redundant” twenty (20) or more employees at one establishment within a period of ninety (90) …
Transparency in Supply Chains etc.: A Practical Guide
Sets forth the Home Office’s prioritization of supply chain transparency as a threshold step towards mitigating the abusive human labor practices that plague its supply chains; the Guide states that …
Modern Slavery Act (UK)
UK Legislation: The Modern Slavery Act will give law enforcement the tools to fight modern slavery, ensure perpetrators can receive suitably severe punishments for these appalling crimes and enhance support …
Working in the UK without a Default Retirement Age: Health, Safety, and the Oldest Workers
With the abolition in the United Kingdom (“U.K.”) of the Default Retirement Age in the Employment Equality (Repeal of Retirement Age Provisions) Regulations 2011 (SI 2011/1069), this article reviews various …
Article from the Editor: “Embarrassment: The New Union-Organizing Tool”
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mare.30011 From the author: “In recent years, unions and other third parties have heavily used public embarrassment as a means of organizing employees. The key to conventional union organizing is …
National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers v. the United Kingdom
European Court of Human Rights
Effects of Business Combinations on Contracts of Employment in Nigeria
This article reviews the plight of employees with regards to business combinations and change of ownership in Nigeria. The article does a comparative analysis of UK and France laws, with …
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