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Labour market enforcement


In recent years important steps have been taken to ensure that employment rights in the UK are fit for the modern world. But these rights are only worth the paper they are written on if they can be enforced. Our labour market enforcement programme examines just how policy can best tackle non-compliance with labour market rules. We also produce research on the labour market and publish a quarterly Labour Market Outlook.

Contacts

Lindsay Judge

Research Director
T: 0203 372 2951
E: lindsay.judge@resolutionfoundation.org

Hannah Slaughter

Senior Economist
T: 0203 372 2903
E: hannah.slaughter@resolutionfoundation.org
Events

Precarious profits?

Why firms use insecure contracts, and what would change their minds

Over one-in-ten workers across Britain is employed on some form of precarious contract. The problems with such working arrangements for some workers are well known: they have limited control over…
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Government names and shames 500 firms for illegally under-paying staff – but will it dissuade others from flouting the law?

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Today the Department for Business and Trade published a list of more than 500 employers who have underpaid the minimum wage, in the latest ‘naming round’ that publicises firms that…
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Publications

Enforce for good

Effectively enforcing labour market rights in the 2020s and beyond

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This report concludes a four-year work programme at the Resolution Foundation supported by Unbound Philanthropy exploring the what, why and how of labour market enforcement. We bring together data and…
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Events

Playing by the rules

A new approach to enforcing workers’ rights

Debates about raising, or indeed cutting, legal protections for workers are a staple of British politics – with welcome progress including a rising minimum wage driving down low pay. But…
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Publications

Who cares?

The experience of social care workers, and the enforcement of employment rights in the sector

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The social care sector, as well as playing a vital role for many people and for our society, is an important employer, with 1.7 million social care jobs across the…
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Do we care about carers?

The experiences of social care workers

Social care is a large and important part of the UK economy, and will be a growing one with an ageing population and rising ill-health. But it is often also…
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Publications

Policing prejudice

Enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the workplace

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This briefing note is part of a three-year programme of research exploring labour market enforcement generously funded by Unbound Philanthropy. In it, we investigate the scale and nature of workplace…
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Publications

Low Pay Britain 2022

Low pay and insecurity in the UK labour market

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This edition of Low Pay Britain is our twelfth annual report taking stock of the state of low pay. Recent editions have focused on the short-term impacts of the Covid-19…
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