Rolling out the Manifesto for Labour Law

Rolling out the Manifesto for Labour Law: Collective Bargaining as the new cornerstone of Labour Law in the UK

With Professor Keith Ewing – School of Law, King’s College London

Chaired by Professor Nicola Countouris - UCL Labour Rights Institute / UCL Laws

About this talk

In 2016, the Institute of Employment Rights published A Manifesto for Labour Law: towards a comprehensive revision of workers’ rights. Within weeks that publication made a breakthrough in the otherwise rather stale labour law reform debate of recent decades. Rather than advocating minor tweaks to the existing labour rights framework, it envisaged a more radical restructuring of the British Labour Law edifice, by firmly placing sectoral collective bargaining at its foundations.

In September 2018, the Institute of Employment Rights published a follow-up to its original Manifesto, under the title Rolling out the Manifesto for Labour Law. This new publication offers a more detailed guide to how the Institute’s recommendations could be practically implemented. This includes proposals for a Collective Bargaining Act and other legislative reforms to protect workers both domestically and across the international supply chains that support the UK’s economy.
Professor Keith Ewing, Professor of Public Law at King’s College London and one of the founders of the Institute, has to be credited with providing much of the intellectual drive behind the development of this new and progressive blueprint for a comprehensive revision of workers’ rights in the UK. He will be presenting to our audience on the central axis of the proposals contained in the Manifesto and in its follow up: the introduction of sectoral collective bargaining under the auspices of a new Ministry of Labour.

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