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Today, last day ILPC. Beautiful Gottingen 🇩🇪, rich papers, fantastic colleagues as were those who animated a great discussion on forthcoming OUP 📕 on ‘The Politics of Unpaid Labour’ @VeraTrappmann @MartinKulhmann 🙏 & 🙏 ILPC Work in the Global Economy Journal CERIC European Research Council (ERC) 👋😊

REMINDER: Gender pay gap reports are due today 4 April 2024 ⏰

Our latest report with ADP has revealed concerning trends in gender pay gap reporting 📊

Almost 1 in 5 large employers haven't conducted reporting, and 18% are unaware of their status. Particularly alarming is the…

Call for papers! We are now accepting submissions for CERIC's annual Doctoral Conference until Monday April 22 business.leeds.ac.uk/research-ceric…

Unite reps across the UK are backing our @tatasteeluk #steel workers at #PortTalbot and #Llanwern .

They are currently balloting for industrial action to save thousands of jobs, entire communities, and the whole UK #steel industry.

Sign our petition: surveys.unitetheunion.org/233412289055859

Just launched! Our film ‘The Sociologist’s Wife’ is now available on YouTube. It tells the story of 3 wives married to eminent British sociologists youtu.be/Xy-ZBDpBA4w

Low Pay Commission report just released finds no compelling evidence that minimum wage increases have harmed job levels

Recommends increasing rates for young workers, action on insecure work, and access to data on wages and hours directly from employers

gov.uk/government/pub…

From the Miners’ Strike to COP29: achieving a just transition in 2024:
Reijo Paananen Nordic Industrial Fed’n GS; Vera Trappmann CERIC; Ellen Robottom; Catherine Porritt Just Transition Wakefield; sarah woolley; David Whyte chaired by Sam Perry TUC Yorkshire & Humber Annual Mtg pm panel!

Great news to end the week. Clearing diary!

🎉The EU Platform Directive is a milestone for workers!

Oliver Roethig said: “Now, member states must ensure that digital labour platforms don’t avoid their responsibilities as employers any longer and engage in social dialogue and collective bargaining.”

uni-europa.org/news/platform-…

Finally, a deal has been done. Now the hard work begins for unions and civil society to make sure platforms comply and that member states properly enforce the law.
consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press…

Great news. It’s been a very long journey.

No, as the data clearly relates to the return up to the end of August 2023.

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Brilliant news. When's the tour.

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‘Platform Labour Unrest in a Global Perspective’ reveals two main dimensions of platform labour struggle: regulatory protests and distributive protests.

Read the authors’ analysis below.
doi.org/10.1177/095001…

The next Humans In Digital Logistics Circle will be held at the University of Leeds with guest speaker Kendra Briken - 'What happened to the travelling salesman? From workers to human factors'.
In person and livestreamed on 26th March 5pm.
For more info and free tickets:
eventbrite.com/e/hulog-circle…

We don‘t want her to come back here!

CERIC Seminar - Chris Forde and Ioulia Bessa from CERIC present: 'Labour Mobility in Transition? Employers' use of migrant labour in the Post-Brexit period' on 6th March 4-5.30pm
Tickets (free) and further details:
eventbrite.co.uk/e/labour-mobil…