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Dermot Feenan

LLB MA LLM Barrister-at-Law FRSA 

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Jules Winterton
Director
Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
University of London
Charles Clore House
17, Russell Square
London   

16 November 2018

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Dear Jules,

We are fellows of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) who have signed this letter in support of outsourced workers at the Institute as we believe that all staff at the Institute should be treated equally.

We support the bringing of all outsourced staff in-house as a priority. 

We kindly request on behalf of these workers that the Institute provides full details of how it will seek to bring all staff in-house and confirm that it will seek to do so by June 2019.

We are especially concerned about the outsourced workers’ position in view of the recent revelations about managers in Cordant Services, the company that employs these workers. Three women workers have brought the exact same accusations of sexism and homophobia against one Cordant manager. Another manager in charge of these staff had to be moved from this role after he was found to have shared xenophobic and far-right posts on social media. Given that the many of the outsourced staff are women, migrant and BAME, we share their concerns that they cannot be assured that they will be treated in a fair and non-discriminatory way until the University of London takes direct responsibility for their employment and working conditions.

We value our association with the Institute, and wish this association to continue, and we hope to have your support in ensuring that we can continue our association with an institution where all workers are treated the same regardless of their role.

We, the undersigned,

1. Dr Sinéad Agnew, Senior Associate Research Fellow, IALS (Faculty of Laws, University College London)
2. Professor Diamond Ashiagbor, Senior Associate Research Fellow, IALS (Kent Law School, University of Kent)
3. Professor Rosemary Auchmuty, Senior Associate Research Fellow, IALS (School of Law, University of Reading)
4. Professor Ilias Bantekas, Senior Associate Research Fellow, IALS (College of Law & Public Policy, HBKU)
5. Dr Francis Boorman, Associate Research Fellow, History of Arbitration Project, IALS
6. Lydia Clapinska, Associate Research Fellow, IALS (Office of the Parliamentary Counsel)
7. Clare Cowling, Associate Research Fellow and Project Director, Legal Records at Risk project, IALS
8. Dr Richard Danbury, Associate Research Fellow, IALS
9. Dermot Feenan, Associate Research Fellow, IALS (Law and Compassion Research Network)
10. Professor Rosemary Hunter, Senior Associate Research Fellow, IALS (Kent Law School, University of Kent)
11. Professor Harry McVea, Senior Associate Research Fellow, IALS (Law School, University of Bristol)
12. Professor Sa’id Mosteshar, Senior Associate Research Fellow, IALS (London Institute of Space Law and Policy)
13. Professor Derek Roebuck, Senior Associate Research Fellow, IALS

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© Dermot Feenan 2018