Virtual Common Room: Employer responsibility in delivering good work
Tuesday 30 April 2024, 2:30pm to 3:30pm
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The Pentland Centre for Sustainability in Business and Work Foundation join forces for this Virtual Common Room - an opportunity to discuss job insecurity and employers' responsibility to generate decent work.
Nearly 2.6 million workers are economically inactive due to long-term illness and the cost-of-living crisis has made workers poorer. At the same time, businesses are struggling with staff shortages, retention issues and low productivity.
Against this backdrop, nearly one in five workers - 6.8 million people - are in severely insecure jobs, often characterised by low pay, unpredictable hours, poor protections, and limited career progression.
Job insecurity is not only harmful for individual workers but also for employers and the health of the UK workforce.
Join Jan Bebbington (Centre Director), Alice Martin, Emelia Williams and Asli Atay (the Work Foundation) in our Virtual Common Room as they share recent findings from the Work Foundation with Pentland Centre members and their wider networks to discuss areas of cross over and potential collaboration. We will cover 1) the role of managers and senior leaders in generating good, secure work, 2) results of a You Gov poll, in collaboration with Pentland Centre, on the financial wellbeing of workforces 3) key policy challenges in an election year: how to generate good work that benefits individuals, employers, and the economy.
We welcome staff across Lancaster University, and members of employer networks, to the discussion.
No need to register - just turn up. The platform we are using is MS Teams, which is free to download, and you can access the meeting at tinyurl.com/emp-res
Speakers
The Work Foundation, Lancaster University
Alice joined the Work Foundation as Head of Research in September 2023. She has over a decade of experience researching the UK labour market with a particular focus on insecure forms of work, worker voice and employer conduct. Previously, Alice worked as a specialist advisor on labour rights at Pensions and Investments Research Consultants (PIRC ltd) and as Head of Head of Work and Pay at the New Economics Foundation.
The Work Foundation, Lancaster University
Asli joined the Work Foundation in April 2022 as a Policy Advisor. Previously, she was a Researcher at Learning and Work Institute (L&W) where she managed projects on various topics such as the relationship between health and employment, the future of work, and migrants’ access to English language training. Prior to that she worked at Demos and another think tank based in Istanbul, Turkey. She holds an MPhil in Political and Economic Sociology from the University of Cambridge.
The Work Foundation, Lancaster University
Emelia joined the Work Foundation as a Research and Policy Analyst deliver research projects, contribute to the development of policy recommendations, and support engagement with policy makers and employers. Previously, she worked at Business in the Community (BITC) as a Campaign Officer where she applied her knowledge and understanding of Inclusion and Wellbeing in the workplace to support businesses to transform their systems and structures to create truly inclusive working cultures.
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