With Sydney University based IER Honorary Associate Professor Dr Angie Knox, IER’s Chris Warhurst has published an article in the FT-50 journal Human Relations that calls for a new quality of working life that improves routine jobs and precarious employment.

Read the article here.

Director of IER, Chris Warhurst, gave a keynote talk in August on the need for governments to develop a balanced economic recovery and growth policy that

The talk – ‘Keeping the faith: Covid, job quality and workplace management practices’ – was delivered to the Cedefop, Eurofound and IZA Conference on Workplace and Management Practices on 21 August 2020 promotes both job creation and job quality in the face of the looming jobs crisis post-Covid.

The hospitality sector has been hit hardest by Covid-19 in Australia. Sally Wright and Chris Warhurst of IER will be working with Angie Knox of Sydney University to develop a new measure of the impact of Covid-19 on job quality in the Australian hospitality industry. The aim is to help government develop policies to ensure a sustainable recovery for the sector.

The gender pay gap is well researched. This new paper by IER’s Honorary Professor Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo Llorente and his Spanish team adds to that body of research by examining the non-monetary gap in working conditions by gender. Using the European Working Conditions Survey, it explores gender differences in working conditions by different dimensions of job quality and across countries.

Not even out of the health crisis, the UK is entering a jobs crisis. New data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows a mixed picture of employment but with strong indications that employment is set to fall. The UK Government has done well to maintain employment levels to date but needs to be equally brave going forward and stick to its plan to create more good jobs in the UK.