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Employing a fairer system – improving the labour market for vulnerable groups

Jill Rubery By , and Filed Under: All posts, UK economy, Work Posted:

The Employment Rights Bill sets out proposals to strengthen labour market protections, reduce welfare spending and tackle economic inactivity. It is positioned as a mechanism to deliver the broader policy objective to ‘make work pay’, which includes supply-side reforms designed to tackle unemployment and labour market inactivity. In this article, Mat Johnson, Jill Rubery and […]

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Don’t worry about the future, what about the ‘now of work’?

By and Filed Under: All posts, Growth and Inclusion, UK economy, Work Posted:

Amongst all the competing predictions about what the future of work might hold, the challenges of achieving decent work in the foundational economy have been largely overlooked. Here, Dr Mat Johnson and Dr Eva Herman argue that the focus should be on making tangible improvements to the working lives of those in the frontline roles that keep […]

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