Ruth Ellen Dukes

Oct 4, 2024 | ier.org.uk | Alan L. Bogg |Nicola Countouris |European Law |Ruth Ellen Dukes

In the week before the Labour Party conference 2024, media reporting showed a deep confusion about Day One Rights and Probationary Periods. Business had been lobbying for new workers to be put on long periods of probation before they became permanent. The suggestion was that this would water down the commitment to Day One Rights. The Government did agree to a six-month maximum period of probation.

Sep 10, 2024 | ier.org.uk | Nicola Countouris |European Law |Alan L. Bogg |Ruth Ellen Dukes

In this series of blogposts the Institute of Employment Rights explores various policy dimensions associated with the delivery of Labour’s reform agenda in the domain of workers rights.

Jun 23, 2023 | ier.org.uk | Ruth Ellen Dukes

Professor Keith Ewing is Professor of Public Law at King's College London. He has written extensively on labour law including recognition procedures and international standards. He is the President of the Institute of Employment Rights and a Vice President of the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom. Lord Hendy KC is Chair of the Institute of Employment Rights. He is a barrister specialising in industrial relations law, based in Old Square Chambers, London.

May 20, 2023 | americanaffairsjournal.org | Chris Griswold |Ruth Ellen Dukes |Wolfgang Streeck

REVIEW ESSAYDemocracy at Work:Contract, Status and Post-Industrial Justiceby Ruth Dukes and Wolfgang StreeckPolity, 2023, 180 pagesIn Democracy at Work, labor law professor Ruth Dukes and sociologist Wolfgang Streeck describe how the dehumanizing and demanding conditions of an Amazon “fulfillment center” maximize the isolation of workers and impede the formation of any kind of community in the warehouse.

May 17, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Ruth Ellen Dukes |Wolfgang Streeck

3 RIGHT-WING POPULIST LABOUR LAW? As a haphazard, opportunistic statist response to the socially if not capitalistically unsustainable uncertainties and insecurities imposed on workers and their families under neoliberalism, right-wing populism has emerged as a significant political force in many countries around the globe. Prominent examples include the US under Trump, the UK under Johnson, and Poland under Kaczyński.