Posted by Glynne Williams in School of Business Blog on December 17, 2015
Unemployment stands at a seven year low. This headline shouldn’t satisfy today’s many ‘zero-hours’ contracts (ZHCs) workers, despite what they are reported to have said, argues Glynne Williams, Senior Lecturer in Industrial Relations at the School. According to the Chartered Institute for Personnel Development (CIPD), there are now around 1.3 million ZHCs. Even allowing for […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Chartered Institute for Personnel Development, Entrepreneurs, Industrial Relations, Job Satisfaction, Legislation, Office for National Statistics, Politics, Self-Employment, Self-Management, Unemployment, Zero-Hours Contract |
Posted by Glynne Williams in School of Business Blog on April 16, 2014
The generation game is getting personal, according to Glynne Williams and Vanessa Beck. ‘Generation gap’ once referred to the gulf in culture and understanding between teenagers and their parents. Now that the baby boomers are approaching old age, however, it is made to refer to a pernicious economic divide. What began in 2008 as a […]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Austerity, Baby Boomers, Collective Bargaining, David Willets, Employment Relations, Entitlement, Financial Crisis, Generation, Housing Market, Individualism, Industrial Relations, Intergenerational Bargaining, Intergenerational Conflict, NHS, Pensions, Unemployment, Welfare, Youth Unemployment, Zero-Hours Contract
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