Existing data for Scotland shows that the gender pay gap is wider for employees in their 40s and 50s, compared with employees in younger age groups. While multiple factors contribute to this gap, what can we learn from women’s experiences of pay and progression at work, and what actions can employers take to improve opportunities … Read more
Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser – CIPD Scotland, talks about their ‘Working Lives Scotland’ report which is a dedicated analysis of job quality and its impact on working lives in Scotland and is written around the five Fair Work dimensions. At the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development, it is our purpose … Read more
Kathryn Willens, Head of Partnerships, Scotland at Creative & Cultural Skills (CCSkills), talks about the CCSkills Fair Access Sector Support programme, which aims to help businesses in the cultural sector and creative industries with first steps to integrating the principles of Fair Work and the Fair Work Dimensions into their organisations. At CCSkills, we work … Read more
Roz Foyer, General Secretary of the Scottish TUC and Fair Work Convention member speaks about her reflections on the recently published Construction Industry Report and its recommendations. Construction is an important sector in any economy and here in Scotland that is certainly the case with the sector providing over 5% of jobs in Scotland … Read more
Over the last two weeks we have seen a significant and worrying example of industrial relations in practice. The country watched in horror as 800 workers – the entire employed workforce of P&O – were sacked without warning. Added to this, P&O had agency workers already on site to take over the jobs and had … Read more
Fair Work is Key to Tackling Child Poverty The Poverty and Inequality Commission has long believed that Scotland will not succeed in permanently reducing child poverty unless, and until, Fair Work practices are embedded in our economy. For those unaware of the Scottish Child Poverty Targets, they are that by 2030 less than 10% of … Read more
When The Fair Work Convention was established in 2015, we had a vision that by 2025, people in Scotland will have a world-leading working life where fair work drives success, wellbeing and prosperity for individuals, businesses, organisations and society. But none of us ever foresaw a devastating worldwide health pandemic and the impact it would … Read more
Guest blog by Alan Thornburrow, Director of Business in the Community Scotland Business in the Community brings together a network of over 600 businesses who are committed to responsible business practices. In Scotland, our overarching focus is driving business action on climate change and just transition. When the eyes of the world were on Glasgow during … Read more
Having wound up its first phase, and having had all of the recommendations from its March 2021 report accepted by the Scottish Government, the Just Transition Commission now enters the second, and arguably more challenging, phase of its work. In March, we produced 24 recommendations intended to be “realistic, practical and affordable”, as Ministers wanted. … Read more
The Fair Work Convention’s ‘Rising to the Challenge: a Just Transition and Fair Work’ webinar was an opportunity to reflect on the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) and to explore and discuss the action Scotland must now take to create a net zero carbon economy by 2045 that has fair work at its heart. … Read more