Work Matters 2024 – Will working lives improve in 2025?

The Work Foundation is a think tank focused on improving working lives across the UK through applied research and new ideas. For over a century, we have worked to break down the barriers individuals and communities face in accessing good work.We believe everyone should have access to secure, rewarding and high-quality work. By engaging directly with workers, employers, policymakers and leading academics, we deliver rigorous applied research to tackle structural inequalities in the labour market and improve working lives across the UK.We are part of Lancaster University’s Management School, and work with a range of partners and organisations across our research programmes.

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Join the Work Foundation and experts to review the ONS labour stats and discuss 2025 prospects for workers, businesses, and communities.

While headline measures of employment and unemployment appear strong, the UK labour market continues to be characterised by a series of substantial challenges.A near record 2.78 million people are currently out of the labour market due to ill health – contributing to worker shortages in key sectors and a rising welfare bill. Meanwhile, workers are continuing to live through a period of pay stagnation with average wages just £20 a week higher than in 2008, and over 6.8 million people are in severely insecure work facing a combination of poor pay, unpredictable hours and a lack of employment rights.The new Government has acted quickly to try to address some of these issues, introducing a comprehensive Budget, an Industrial Strategy Green Paper and an ambitious Employment Rights Bill – and a recently released Get Britain Working White Paper featuring a series of reforms to tackle recent rises in economic inactivity.But there are unlikely to be any quick fixes. Join the Work Foundation and a panel of experts to review the labour market statistics from the Office for National Statistics, and discuss what the prospects are for workers, businesses and communities in 2025.Speakers:<ul><li>Ben Harrison (Director, Work Foundation)</li><li>Claire Reindorp (Chief Executive Officer, Young Women's Trust)</li><li>Alex Hall-Chen (Principal Policy Adviser, Institute of Directors)</li><li>David Smith (Economics Editor, The Sunday Times).</li></ul>Register in advance for this webinar and a Zoom link will be sent 48 hours before the event.Subscribe to the Work Foundation newsletter <a href="https://confirmsubscription.com/h/j/0C5E7DC56AD67051" title="https://confirmsubscription.com/h/j/0C5E7DC56AD67051" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here</a>.

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