BEIS is striving to create fairer, inclusive and flexible workplaces so that everyone has the change to succeed, whilst balancing home and work life. We will unlock enterprise and cut burdens to help businesses start and grow, while reforming corporate governance and improving boardroom diversity. To that end, BEIS needs research to better understand the following:
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Work and employment remain a central concern to people's livelihoods, wellbeing and identities. But how are the terms, nature and quality of work and employment determined? In other words, what is the system of regulatio...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Newcastle University
The project discusses the regulation of work and employment, which is relevant to understanding the effectiveness of different tools for driving compliance with labour market regulations.
The Network on Legal Regulation of Unacceptable Forms of Work responds to the substantive and methodological limitations of the research on the regulation of precarious and low-quality jobs. The Network will support a ri...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Durham University
The project focuses on the legal regulation of unacceptable forms of work, which is relevant to the question's focus on labour market regulations.
The lack of good jobs in high growth, low pay service sectors in contemporary labour markets has been identified as a recurrent problem by policy makers and academics, as well as trade union and business leaders, especia...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Brighton
The project investigates the politics of regulation in the UK, the US and Australia, which is relevant to understanding the effectiveness of different tools for driving compliance with labour market regulations.