Rebecca Florisson: Living precariously: The challenge of insecure work

About the event

The 2024 UK Insecure Work Index estimated that 6.8 million people living in the UK (over 20% of the workforce) are in severely insecure work. It also showed that inequality in the labour market means that women, young people, ethnic minorities and disabled people are disproportionately likely to be in an insecure job.

Rebecca Florisson discusses the realities of low pay, unpredictable hours and poor protections, and the steps that can be taken to transform the labour market to improve access to secure jobs. What is the potential impact of reforms in the Employment Rights Bill? Does the bill go far enough?

Speaker biography

Rebecca Florisson is Principal Analyst at the Work Foundation at Lancaster University and leads the research programme on insecure work. She has expertise in labour market precarity, social mobility, and working conditions and applies cross-sectional and longitudinal data analysis to important research and policy questions. Alongside her role at the Work Foundation, she is a part-time PhD candidate at Queen Mary, University of London, conducting an ESRC-funded study on the impact of precarious work during the early career on life course employment trajectories. Previously, she worked in the Employment Unit at Eurofound, the European agency for the improvement of working and living conditions in Europe. She holds an MSc in Politics and Public Policy from Trinity College Dublin.

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