Many key workers are among the UK’s lowest paid.
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Unions, business and government will sit down to try to overhaul our industrial relations system. Past and recent history tell us this is a tough ask.
The risk to workers hasn’t changed, but employers no longer have the same labor market pressures to worry about.
Treasury’s inability to forecast wage growth suggests it doesn’t understand what cases it and why we need it.
Informal retailers that dot South Africa’s townships have changed dramatically, but at great cost - avoidance of regulation and exploitation of employees.
Promised increases from both sides are a striking new feature of UK politics and could be transformative for many.
The restaurant industry as a whole hasn’t been a huge supporter of the fight to increase minimum wage – but it should be.
Workers on awards and the minimum wage will get 3%. There was a case for awarding even more.
The collective public health of Canada, the United States and Mexico will take a hit if the new NAFTA becomes law.
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.
Granting low-wage workers a “living wage” instead of a minimum wage is far from costless, and there are much better ways of helping people genuinely in need.
As debate begins over what living wages mean for Australian workers, it is a good time to consider a global living wage.
Ontario’s Conservative government, despite its “for the people” slogan, is repealing basic protections for the province’s most vulnerable workers.
The rise of superstar companies that dominate their industries may be partly to blame for the lack of wage growth in the US in recent years. It could also suggest a solution.
The UK desperately needs a more robust system to lift standards in low paid sectors and protect workers.
Hundreds of court cases show that companies are using features of timekeeping software to shortchange workers, a few minutes at a time.
An expert explains why a recent plan to include a question about citizenship in the 2020 census is unjust, both for citizens and noncitizens.
The budget bill just signed into law by the president will both make it harder for restaurants to take worker tips while reducing a form of inequality rife in the industry.
Experience in Fiji shows that reducing working poverty requires not only a raise in the minimum wage, but a minimum set of government services and benefits.
Can today’s crisis in mental health be seen as the result of neoliberalism, the 2007/08 financial crisis and the austerity policies that followed?
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Research Fellow, Australian National University
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Professor of Law, The University of Texas at Austin
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Professor of Social Policy, Loughborough University
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Professor, Discipline of Business Information Systems, University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
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Professor of Economics & Business, Allegheny College
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Research Associate, School of Social Sciences, Monash University
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Associate Clinical Professor of Law, University of Chicago
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Co-Director, Institute for Economic Justice, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Employment Relations & HR Management, University of Birmingham
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Professorial Fellow and Co-Director, HILDA Survey, Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research, The University of Melbourne
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Laurie Carmichael Distinguished Research Fellow at the Centre for Future Work, and Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
