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Worse than zero hours contracts: work, pay and (in)equalities in the gig economy

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The gig economy is rarely out of the news; former CBI boss Lord Adair Turner is the latest prominent figure to call for the Government to enforce the minimum wage for those who earn a living in this way. Tony Dundon, Professor of Human Resource Management & Employment Relations at Alliance Manchester Business School, and […]

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Ethnic Inequality in Low Pay

Simon Peters By Filed Under: All posts, Ethnicity, Featured Posted:

Minimum wage legislation is supposed to deliver earnings that protect an individual’s living standard from falling below an acceptable level. Quite often it does no such thing, explains Dr Simon Peters. Setting the UK national minimum wage should be a key policy in the framework of equality legislation. Yet there are serious doubts about whether […]

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