'My worst day was losing eight patients in one shift. I cried for two days' Heart-breaking testimony from NHS staff at the Covid Inquiry.

Policy@Manchester has launched #Workingfutures - a look at the key challenges in a shifting policy landscape for work & employment. The report includes articles by Mathew Johnson Eva Herman Miguel Martínez Lucio Heather Connolly. Alliance MBS #workequalities Discover more: …licyatmanchester.shorthandstories.com/working-future…

@Polequal's article The Politics of Equality at Work in the UK: Who Sets the Equality Agenda has been included in the latest Policy@Manchester report #Workingfutures Miguel Martínez Lucio Heather Connolly Alliance MBS #workequalities #equality Discover more: …licyatmanchester.shorthandstories.com/working-future…

3 jours passionnants et une présentation de notre papier sur la négociation des cse avec Remi Bourguignon, Elodie Bethoux, Paul Tainturier, Arnaud Mias, Heather Connolly AGRH - Association francophone de GRH #agrh2023 #négociation #cse #corse

👩Women spent on average 13 hours more than men on unpaid work each week, be it housework, cooking, or caring for children or relatives. This translates into 8 full-time weeks a year. 🔗More in our blog: ow.ly/ja5e50Q0ZmW #GenderEqualityWeek

UK riders have won many legal battles but this is a huge, if not unexpected, setback, because it goes to the core point. In the platform economy unionisation and collective bargaining rights need to be expanded beyond typical employment.

Guglielmo Meardi Meanwhile, better news in British Columbia, Canada… where “App-based ride-hailing and food-delivery gig workers will soon have better working conditions with new protections, including basic employment standards.” news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2023L…

Call for papers! The upcoming WES special issue “The organisation & mobilisation of ‘unusual suspect’: Precarious work, informalisation & labour organisations” is looking for paper abstracts. Deadline 31 January 2024. Details below. britsoc.co.uk/media/26353/we…

🖋️New Post! Labour’s plans for equal pay of BME workers doesn't address the source of the pay gap between white and BME workers: low-paid and precarious jobs. Researchers Work & Equalities Institute argue Labour needs to recognise and act on this. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol…

What explains the working and living conditions of irregular migrants in Europe? How and why do these conditions vary across European countries and sectors? Take a look at the new theoretical framework paper for our #PRIMEprojectEU: blogs.eui.eu/migrationpolic…

Pleased to have a new piece published on LSE British Politics and Policy, where we argue that Labour's proposed new race equality legislation doesn't go far enough in addressing systemic labour market inequalities: blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpol… Work & Equalities Institute

Work & Equalities Institute Next up, Heather Connolly on gender-based quotas in France: …ticsofequalityatwork.manchester.ac.uk/blog/2022/09/1… #IWD2024

Work & Equalities Institute Heather Connolly Holly Smith explores the political, economic, and historical context of the drive for pay equality within UK Local Government …ticsofequalityatwork.manchester.ac.uk/blog/2022/11/1… #IWD2024

In another piece by Heather Connolly, she looks at the gendered impact of the recent pension reforms in France: …ticsofequalityatwork.manchester.ac.uk/blog/2023/05/2… #IWD2024

Hundreds of academics have quit the world’s top women studies journal, claiming that US publisher Wiley went over their heads in recruiting three outsiders as co-editors-in-chief, reports John Ross timeshighereducation.com/news/mass-walk…

There is growing interest in using toolkits that facilitate organisations when evaluating and developing their EDI-related strategies. In our new blog, we consider the potential organisational processes and outcomes of these organisational artefacts: …ticsofequalityatwork.manchester.ac.uk/blog/2024/04/1…

Fittingly on 1 May - International Workers' Day and May Day - The Handbook of Labour Unions which I edited is published today by Agenda. As it's very pricey, please ask a library to order one - see agendapub.com/page/detail/th…

The Handbook of Labour Unions which I edited was published on May Day last week by Agenda - see agendapub.com/page/detail/th… The introduction is available for free to read here as a taster: agendapub.com/resources/pdfs… & abridged chapter summaries can be found here: jstor.org/stable/jj.1347…

🚨 New blog alert! In our 3rd blog about France, Heather Connolly explains the requirements of the Gender Equality Index & considers whether its indicators are a meaningful way of tackling #gender #inequalities in the workplace: …ticsofequalityatwork.manchester.ac.uk/blog/2024/06/2… Work & Equalities Institute

📍 The latest paper by Anne-marie Greene, Heather Connolly and Deborah Dean WBS, reviews key texts by Alan Fox and his influential frames of reference theory, and their relevance to the contemporary industrial relations field. Read it here ⬇️ emerald.com/insight/conten…