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- Professor of Employment Relations & HR Management, University of Birmingham
British jobs policy is broken. Here’s an alternative.
Major crises all necessitate massive state intervention.
The UK has benefited from EU labour protections, which will be vulnerable to the Conservative party’s deregulation agenda.
The legal minimum wage is vital for regulating low pay and preventing exploitation. But it is insufficient on its own to reduce poverty for working people.
The Working Time Directive enshrines legal rights to rest periods, paid holidays and a maximum 48-hour working week.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn claims they do. Two academics assessed the facts.
The wealth bonanza enjoyed by top flight football clubs does not trickle down to many of their employees.
Too little is known about the changing work patterns at the margins of the labour market.
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