There are profound difficulties with the funding model and financial state of UK universities. Crisis isn’t hyperbolic.This ministerial attempt to grapple with them is deeply unserious.
Intriguing report of the thinking of the Universities Minister
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
Universities have ‘lost sight of responsibility over public money’
Baroness Smith says institutions failing to rein in spending despite demanding financial support from government
www.telegraph.co.uk
May 11, 2025 at 9:11 AM
There are profound difficulties with the funding model and financial state of UK universities. Crisis isn’t hyperbolic.This ministerial attempt to grapple with them is deeply unserious.
There may be good reasons for allowing substitution clauses as a matter of contractual freedom. Potentially, they could serve the interests of workers and employers. Facilitating the avoidance of statutory liabilities by lead companies in supply chains or chains of labour contracts is not of them.
The insertion of substitution clauses to defeat platform workers' employment status helps fuel a black market for account-renting to migrants who don't have the right to work. The result, unsurprisingly, is more precarity.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/05...
Illegal migrants flock to Britain for ‘easy money’ food delivery jobs
Telegraph investigation reveals asylum seekers make up to £500 a week working as bike couriers
www.telegraph.co.uk
May 7, 2025 at 10:22 AM
There may be good reasons for allowing substitution clauses as a matter of contractual freedom. Potentially, they could serve the interests of workers and employers. Facilitating the avoidance of statutory liabilities by lead companies in supply chains or chains of labour contracts is not of them.
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Alongside longer articles, the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law also includes Case Notes (and legislation and policy notes) overseen by section eds Prof Lucy Vickers and Dr Rachel Horton journals.sagepub.com/author-instr...
April 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Alongside longer articles, the International Journal of Discrimination and the Law also includes Case Notes (and legislation and policy notes) overseen by section eds Prof Lucy Vickers and Dr Rachel Horton journals.sagepub.com/author-instr...
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Come and work with me!
The TUC is looking for a policy officer to contribute to our work on employment rights and wider labour market policy.
The role will support our response to new legislation and a rapidly changing economy.
tuc.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
The TUC is looking for a policy officer to contribute to our work on employment rights and wider labour market policy.
The role will support our response to new legislation and a rapidly changing economy.
tuc.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
Policy Officer, employment rights and labour markets - London
Policy Officer, employment rights and labour market
Grade 8.1 £58,755.57 (pro rata) pa plus £6,145.66 London Weighting (pro rata) per annum
Permanent, Option of Four or Five days (28/30 hours) a wee...
tuc.current-vacancies.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Come and work with me!
The TUC is looking for a policy officer to contribute to our work on employment rights and wider labour market policy.
The role will support our response to new legislation and a rapidly changing economy.
tuc.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
The TUC is looking for a policy officer to contribute to our work on employment rights and wider labour market policy.
The role will support our response to new legislation and a rapidly changing economy.
tuc.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...
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Join us for a seminar on Structural Injustice and the Law, which I co-edited with @jowolff.bsky.social. It’s organised by Adalberto Perulli at Ca’Foscari in Venice on 10/4.
In addition to the organiser and co-editors, we have a brilliant group of speakers.
Further details in the poster.
In addition to the organiser and co-editors, we have a brilliant group of speakers.
Further details in the poster.
March 28, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Join us for a seminar on Structural Injustice and the Law, which I co-edited with @jowolff.bsky.social. It’s organised by Adalberto Perulli at Ca’Foscari in Venice on 10/4.
In addition to the organiser and co-editors, we have a brilliant group of speakers.
Further details in the poster.
In addition to the organiser and co-editors, we have a brilliant group of speakers.
Further details in the poster.
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The Employment Rights Bill will allow collective agreeements to opt out of the labyrinthine provisions on guaranteed hours. Shall we call this the Bogg/Ford amendment? @thebigbogg.bsky.social
March 5, 2025 at 9:18 AM
The Employment Rights Bill will allow collective agreeements to opt out of the labyrinthine provisions on guaranteed hours. Shall we call this the Bogg/Ford amendment? @thebigbogg.bsky.social
A powerful rejoinder - and well worth a read, of course.
Following up on the written evidence to the Commons Committee on the Employment Rights Bill from @thebigbogg.bsky.social I've had a few more thoughts!
rangeofreasonableresponses.com/2025/01/09/m...
rangeofreasonableresponses.com/2025/01/09/m...
More thoughts on “Fire and Rehire”
Back in November I wrote about the Employment Rights Bill and its proposal to ban the practice of ‘fire and rehire’. I suggested that the very narrow ‘financial difficulties’ exception that the Bil…
rangeofreasonableresponses.com
January 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
A powerful rejoinder - and well worth a read, of course.
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The 'must read' of the day is the written evidence on the Employment Rights Bill submitted by @thebigbogg.bsky.social and Michael Ford KC.
Ihttps://bills.parliament.uk/publications/57495/documents/5541
Ihttps://bills.parliament.uk/publications/57495/documents/5541
bills.parliament.uk
January 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The 'must read' of the day is the written evidence on the Employment Rights Bill submitted by @thebigbogg.bsky.social and Michael Ford KC.
Ihttps://bills.parliament.uk/publications/57495/documents/5541
Ihttps://bills.parliament.uk/publications/57495/documents/5541
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Evidence in which @thebigbogg.bsky.social describes himself as a 'simple lawyer' & then suggests removal of the statutory assumption that collective bargaining is not legally enforceable, & deprioritising personal service when determining employment status so that it's just a factor in the mix.
🔥Watch @thebigbogg.bsky.social Simon Deakin + Melanie Simms cut to the heart of the Employment Bill:
⏩the Bill only restores the 2015 position, not 1965
🌍we're still the most restrictive in the western world on unions
0⃣the Regulatory Policy Comm "surprised" us
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
⏩the Bill only restores the 2015 position, not 1965
🌍we're still the most restrictive in the western world on unions
0⃣the Regulatory Policy Comm "surprised" us
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
Parliamentlive.tv
Employment Rights Bill
parliamentlive.tv
December 1, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Evidence in which @thebigbogg.bsky.social describes himself as a 'simple lawyer' & then suggests removal of the statutory assumption that collective bargaining is not legally enforceable, & deprioritising personal service when determining employment status so that it's just a factor in the mix.
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🔥Watch @thebigbogg.bsky.social Simon Deakin + Melanie Simms cut to the heart of the Employment Bill:
⏩the Bill only restores the 2015 position, not 1965
🌍we're still the most restrictive in the western world on unions
0⃣the Regulatory Policy Comm "surprised" us
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
⏩the Bill only restores the 2015 position, not 1965
🌍we're still the most restrictive in the western world on unions
0⃣the Regulatory Policy Comm "surprised" us
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
Parliamentlive.tv
Employment Rights Bill
parliamentlive.tv
November 30, 2024 at 12:27 PM
🔥Watch @thebigbogg.bsky.social Simon Deakin + Melanie Simms cut to the heart of the Employment Bill:
⏩the Bill only restores the 2015 position, not 1965
🌍we're still the most restrictive in the western world on unions
0⃣the Regulatory Policy Comm "surprised" us
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
⏩the Bill only restores the 2015 position, not 1965
🌍we're still the most restrictive in the western world on unions
0⃣the Regulatory Policy Comm "surprised" us
parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
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Where The Big Bogg goes, The Big Blog follows. Welcome!
Hello Bluesky! The UK Labour Law Blog just created an account here!
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November 21, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Where The Big Bogg goes, The Big Blog follows. Welcome!