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The IER’s mission today is holding Labour to account on workers’ rights
Newly appointed director JAMES HARRISON sets out his vision for the Institute of Employment Rights, balancing healthy scepticism of Labour’s promises with proactive efforts to improve and expand workers’ rights

AFTER having the pleasure of working for nearly 10 years at the Institute of Employment Rights (IER), I’m absolutely thrilled to have recently taken up the position of director.
I’m excited to be working with our network of academics, labour lawyers and trade unionists to continue to provide information, critical analysis and policy ideas to assist the labour movement for the struggles ahead.
Since the July general election, Britain’s labour movement is still finding its feet in a new industrial landscape. The New Deal for Workers (NDFW), or “Making Work Pay” as the Labour Party has more recently branded it, seems like it will deliver meaningful changes for workers, and this should be welcomed.
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