Recent events have spelt out the important role that regulation should play in ensuring fairness and stability in our economy – and suggest significant Government policy shifts. Could this conversion also provide the opportunity for Government to accept the case for sensible regulation at the bottom of the labour market?
Theresa May has accused Harriet Harman of living in a dream world, and engaging in class warfare. Ms Harman’s crime is recognising that class inequalities have a significant impact on life chances. Apparently this rhetoric belongs 20 years in the past – presumably becuase social class no longer makes much of a difference to any…
Cycling low-skilled temporary migrant workers in and out of the country, refusing them opportunities for settlement, is not a sensible way to run an economy – it reduces efficiency and increases costs for employers. Unfortunately this OECD position contradicts the opinion of the Home Office, whose new points based system will prevent many migrants with…
Research undertaken by Eaves on London’s sex industry – and the experiences of the women who can be trafficked into forced prostitution – is chilling. Some women valued at £15 a go, and recognition from male purchasers that the prices are so low they may be buying sex with slaves:
The World Health Organisation has reported that it is within the possibilties of public policy to reduce health inequalities within a generation. A key part of their proposed solution is ‘Fair Employment and Decent Work’. Given the Conservative Party’s recent interest in highlighting the ongoing inequalities in UK health, I look forward to hearing their…
Jeremy Paxman is appalled that middle class white men are facing ongoing discrimination in the television industry. As the Fawcett Society has noted, the problem doesn’t exist in the first place, and unsurpsisingly it is women working in the media who are in the minority.
Women are more likely than men to be paid less than the minimum wage, and migrant women the most likely of all. As The Guardian has reported, research we published last week leads us to believe that around 35,000 newly arrived women accross the UK are facing illegal poverty wages. This isn’t surprising – evidence of…