About this Lecture

Title

Make Work Pay I: rights, equality, job security

Discussants

• Prof Gwenyth Pitt (Kingston)
• Lord John Hendy KC
• Prof Lydia Hayes (Liverpool)
• Prof Simon Deakin (Cambridge)

Topics

1. Worker status
2. Minimum wage
3. Zero hours
4. Parental leave
5. Day 1 rights
6. Fire and rehire

 

About this Event Series

How should Labour achieve its economic objectives, for growth, prosperity and equality in Britain? This series is based on Labour’s economic policy and legislative plans. There will be a one hour lecture with Prof Ewan McGaughey, followed by seminar discussion, joined by expert discussants including from the Institute for Employment Rights: see the Eventbrite pages. Attendees will participate in formulating a policy note for each topic, and draft amendments to Bills to fulfil the goals in each policy field.

Sources include Keir Starmer’s pledges, the Labour Manifesto, official policies, and Bills. We compare these to human right treaties that bind the UK, including the Universal Declaration (ratified by the two International Covenants of 1966), the European Convention and Social Charter. We compare existing UK legal sources to these goals, to international models, and to empirical data. Full background for each topic is in Ewan McGaughey,Principles of Enterprise Law: the Economic Constitution and Human Rights (2022) chapters 3-5, 8-17 and 20 (McG), available on the Cambridge Uni Press website.