ReWAGE is fortunate in having some of the UK’s foremost thinkers on its Expert Group, drawn from leading universities and research organisations from across the UK. Between them they have a huge breadth of knowledge, covering such subjects as the labour market, job quality, employment relations and the changing nature of work.

Today we are turning the spotlight onto ReWAGE expert Ewart Keep, emeritus chair in Education, Training and Skills at the Department of Education, University of Oxford.

ReWAGE's new report calls for a radical overhaul of the hospitality sector to tackle crisis-level staff shortages. Recommendations in the paper, Work, wages and employment in the UK hospitality sector, include better pay, terms and conditions for employees (including the enforcement of tipping rights), legislation to reinforce employer duty-of-care responsibilities for workers travelling to and from work, and more flexibility to employ seasonal workers from within the EU and beyond. The paper was commissioned and funded by the abrdn Financial Fairness Trust.

ReWAGE is fortunate in having some of the UK’s foremost thinkers on its Expert Group, drawn from leading universities and research organisations across the UK. Between them they have a huge breadth of knowledge.

This week we are turning the spotlight onto ReWAGE expert Edmund Heery who is Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations at Cardiff Business School, and who has written two of ReWAGE's recent papers on Trade Unions and Employer Membership Organisations.

Edmund's new book on The Real Living Wage is out soon.