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The IER is delighted to launch our new podcast. In this 6-part series, our labour law experts will be dissecting the new employment legislation brought forward by Sir Keir Starmer's Labour government.As many of our readers will know, the IER have been informing the debate on…
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Zero Hours Contracts (opens the original)
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A flagship policy of the Starmer Government’s upgrade to workers’ rights was the promise to end the exploitative use of zero-hours contracts. Though these types of casual labour arrangements now referred to as ‘zero-hours contracts’ have been around for a long time, the past decade has seen the labour movement call out employers for abusing the one-sided flexibility of these arrangements, plunging millions into insecurity and low wages. In present day, ONS data (2025) shows near record levels of
The Case of the Spanish Riders (opens the original)
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For over a decade, Spain's food delivery giants built their business on a the premise that riders were 'collaborators', self-employed and outside the reach of labour law, and responsible for their own risk. That era could now be over for food delivery service riders in Spain. On 15th January 2026, Uber Eats Spain announced it would abandon its hybrid model of employed and self-employed riders in favour of an employees-only structure, following Glovo Spain which made the same move in July 2025. B
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