This seminar will present original findings from a longitudinal study of the UK’s Real Living Wage.

Part of the Inequalities Seminar Series (https://www.lse.ac.uk/International-Inequalities/Events/Inequalities-Seminar-Series)

Speaker:

Professor Edmund Heery, Emeritus Professor of Employment Relations, Cardiff Business School

This seminar will present original findings from a longitudinal study of the UK’s Real Living Wage, a voluntary standard promoted by Citizens UK which has been adopted by more than 22,000 employers since 2011. Three primary issues will be addressed: 1) the nature of the campaign to promote the Living Wage, including the methods used and the range of institutional actors who have participated; 2) the response of employers and the characteristics of employing organizations that have adopted the Living Wage; and 3) the redistributive and other outcomes of the campaign, including estimates of how many workers have gained materially and received an increase in pay. The session will conclude by suggesting what the emergence of campaigns of this kind tells us about the changing system of employment regulation in the UK.

For online attendance, please register here (https://lse.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1-mE0_-RQ0CkNERBGiQm2Q).

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