A Manifesto for Labour Law: towards a comprehensive revision of workers’ rights (Institute of Employment Rights, 2016) is a set of reform proposals for
UK labour law, written by fifteen
labour rights experts in academia and legal practice from the UK, Europe and the Commonwealth.[1] It is edited by
Keith D. Ewing,
John Hendy QC and Carolyn Jones. The Manifesto urges that to stop low productivity, rising inequality, stagnant low wages, and poor working conditions, there should be a shift toward sectoral collective bargaining, worker voice in
corporate governance, and a renewed
Ministry of Labour with power to support democracy at work. In full, it lists 25 recommendations for reform.
Contents
Chapter one - introduction
Chapter two - the four pillars of collective bargaining
Chapter three - making collective bargaining work
Chapter four - improving statutory protection
Chapter five - making rights work
Chapter six - securing freedom of association
Chapter seven - enhancing the right to strike
Chapter eight - conclusion
Principal recommendations
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Significance
The ‘’Manifesto’’ has been reviewed in multiple blogs and journals,[2] endorsed by trade unions, and adopted by the opposition
Labour Party.
^Alan Bogg, Nicola Countouris, Ruth Dukes,
Keith Ewing, Michael Ford QC, Mark Freedland QC,
John Hendy QC, Phil James, Carolyn Jones,
Aileen McColgan, Sonia McKay, Tonia Novitz, David Walters, David Whyte, and Frank Wilkinson.