Turning employees into ‘owners’? The falsest promise yet
This article was first published by the Institute of Employment Rights on 12 October 2024. Three employment law experts look into the “deeply worrying” shares-for-rights trade off proposed by George…
Low-paid workers – worse off next year and even worse off in 2020
One image from the TV coverage of George Osborne’s July Budget sticks in my mind. It hasn’t got anything to do with the Chancellor’s smirk as he announced the “National…
Labour Market Realities: Young Workers
For young workers, poor quality employment is the new normal. They increasingly move from zero-hour contract to zero-hour contract, agency job to agency job. In this world, pay tends to…
Budget 2021: Our panellists give their reaction
Daisy Sands, Head of Policy & Campaigns at the Fawcett Society Today’s budget contained a little help but a lot of hurt for women. The greatest hit came with the…
When the gambling industry realised women were potential customers, it reeled them in
Walk down the average British high street these days and you’ll notice a collection of vacated betting shops. This sight would appear to reassure researchers who have long noted that…
Social Care Needs a Plan. What We Heard From the Prime Minister Isn’t It.
Plan. noun. A set of decisions about how to do something in the future. When Boris Johnson stood in the Commons two weeks ago to set out his government’s Health…
Whose recovery is it?
We live in strange times. It is a world where nothing is quite as it seems. For tuning in to the news, picking up the daily papers or checking out…
We cannot let the government get away with the Trade Union Bill
Today, trade union members from across the UK descend on parliament to tell their MPs to oppose the Trade Union Bill. Last week the Committee Stage of the Bill drew…
Social State: The Most Important Part of the Welfare State: The NHS
Want, Ignorance, Idleness, Squalor and Disease. Of these five ‘Giant Evils’ identified by Beveridge the most important is the last one: disease. If you are sick or infirm the problems…
Too often public opinion about migration is based on false information
For years, immigration has consistently ranked among the top concerns in surveys of the British public. In response, political leaders have repeatedly made efforts to show that they can bring…
The Stakes: Brexit
Where are we at? Brexit has dominated politics and policy in the UK ever since the polarising referendum campaign ended in a vote to leave the EU last year. Negotiations…