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Institute of Employment Rights ready for launch in Scotland

LABOUR movement think tank the Institute for Employment Rights (IER) is to open a Scotland division.

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard (left) and IER director Carolyn Jones

The workplace rights specialists, whose Manifesto for Labour Law has been adopted by the shadow cabinet and forms part of the legislative programme proposed by a Jeremy Corbyn government, told a packed Morning Star fringe meeting that “Scotland is not immune to the chronic abuses of employment and trade union rights that plague the UK economy.”

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