Search results
The quality of people’s work helps people to stay healthy and happy, and better designed work that gets the best out of people, enhancing productivity. The conclusions were presented as seven steps towards fair and decent work with realistic scope for development and fulfilment:
Jun 4, 2020 · The CIPD has today launched its annual benchmark of working life in the UK. It is calling on the people profession to help ensure job quality doesn’t take a backseat in the quest to protect jobs and rebuild the economy in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Jun 11, 2024 · But those who do work for her receive a level of support, particularly around mental health, that would have been unimaginable in Middlesbrough’s macho industrial past.
- 3 min
- Foreword by Matthew
- Paul Broadbent
- Summary
- Our rationale
- The Commission on Good Work improvements.”
- Seven steps towards fair and decent work with realistic scope for development and fulfilment
- Summary
- The importance of quality work
- What is quality work?
- Foundations of quality work
- Wages
- Employment quality
- Consultative participation & collective representation
- Understanding trade-offs
- Summary
- Why the labour market doesn’t work for everyone
- self-employed.”
- Summary:
- Summary
- The current approach
- Current principles
- new approach
- complicated.” Establishing employment status
- The future of the worker
- vague.”
- Addressing unintended consequences
- Supporting flexibility in the gig economy
- Piece rates
- Aligning frameworks
- Greater transparency of rights
- GMB submission employees.”
- Online tool
- Next steps
- Summary
- Unravelling the Gordian knot
- Managing gaps in service
- Providing stability
- Next steps
- Summary
- Good Employment Relations
- ‘Voice’ in the workplace
- Transparency
- Next steps
- Summary
- The current landscape
- Agency workers
- Deciding to take action
- Making a case
- Broader justice
- Next steps
- avoidance.”
- The Rt Hon Frank Field MP DL, taxpayers.”
- Next steps
- Summary
- Informed decisions
- A safety net at work
- WHAT IS WORKERTECH?
- CASE STUDY
- CASE STUDY
- Next steps
- Apprenticeship Levy
- SOFT SKILLSET COURSE OBJECTIVES
- SOFT SKILLSET EMPLOYER REQUIREMENTS
- Digital badges
- CASE STUDY
- Gatsby Benchmarks: Good Careers Guidance
- Summary
- Flexible Working
- CASE STUDY
- Who are atypical workers?
- Pregnancy and maternity
- Work & Health
- Progression
- Summary
- Taking ownership
- Measuring success
- Horizon scanning
- The role of technology in productivity
- A partnership approach
- Sectoral approaches
- CASE STUDY
- Promoting best practice
- CASE STUDY
- Next steps
- 14. Seven steps towards fair and decent work with realistic scope for development and fulfilment
To be asked by Her Majesty’s Government to develop proposals to improve the lives of this country’s citizens is an honour. I am grateful to the Prime Minister for giving me that honour and for the support and the respect for my independence which has been shown by her team in Downing Street. Matthew Taylor Greg Marsh Diane Nicol
I was not the only person appointed to the Review. My fellow Review team members, Greg Marsh, Diane Nicol and Paul Broadbent have not only been an important source of ideas and wisdom throughout the process but have led in engaging with key groups of stakeholders; respectively, entrepreneurs and business, the legal profession and enforcement agenci...
The work of this Review is based on a single overriding ambition: All work in the UK economy should be fair and decent with realistic scope for development and fulfilment. Good work matters for several reasons: Because, despite the important contribution of the living wage and the benefit system, fairness demands that we ensure people, particularly...
Our goal of good work for all is ambitious and involves concerted action ranging from specific changes in the short term to longer term strategic shifts. We advocate change but in doing so we seek to build on the distinctive strengths of our existing labour market and framework of regulation; the British way. It is inevitable that public concern fo...
In terms of our recommendations we have focussed broadly on three challenges: Tackling exploitation and the potential for exploitation at work; Increasing clarity in the law and helping people know and exercise their rights; and Over the longer term, aligning the incentives driving the nature of our labour market with our modern industrial strateg...
1. Our national strategy for work – the British way - should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles shoul...
Ensuring all work is fair and decent with realistic scope for development and fulfilment relies on the provision of quality work. However, as we have discovered during this Review, what represents quality work to one person may not for another. In order to make recommendations, it is first important to understand the characteristics that can make ...
How much a person earns is often used to judge the quality of their job, but fair and decent work is about more than pay. The most recent British Social Attitudes survey shows that less than half of us feel our job is just a way of making money. What is more, the importance individuals place on having a high income has been declining in recent year...
The issue of quality work was raised with us across the country during our discussions. From delivery drivers to agency workers, everyone has their view on what they are looking for from work. We were also taken by some of the diametrically opposed views of the same job presented to the Work and Pensions Select Committee earlier in the year. “ matt...
So how do we know what quality work is? It is important to consider it through the lens of the person looking for work as different people will have different motivations. For instance, students looking to earn extra money for tickets to a concert are likely to have very different motivations to someone who is hoping to settle down and buy a house ...
Money is obviously important. We all have bills to pay and things we want to do. As well as absolute pay levels, whether someone is happy with their earnings is often based on comparisons with the amount their peers are earning. Pay disparity in a workplace or particular industry can therefore make it harder for individuals to feel a sense of fairn...
This indicator captures what it means to be fulfilled at work and considers issues such as job security. Young people, lower-skilled, part-time and temporary workers tend to face higher levels of job insecurity for a range of reasons. The prevalence of involuntary long hours in a job is also a factor. Working longer hours increases the risk of occu...
A greater voice in the organisational decisions that affect your job can make people feel better about their work. It can also add to a more collegiate environment between management and staff, boosting the feeling of fulfilment and increasing productivity. The Review heard that for many having no say in the way they work had negative impacts on th...
The factors listed here are not mutually exclusive. People value different facets of work. For instance, in return for greater job security individuals may decide to reduce their flexibility. Likewise, those opting for maximum flexibility may find that pay suffers as a result with fewer opportunities for further development through training. In ord...
We are starting from a position of strength: the UK has employment levels and rates that are at historic highs and compare well internationally. Our flexible approach – what the Review calls ‘the British way’ – works. Full-time, permanent work remains the norm, but other ‘atypical’ arrangements are usually chosen and valued by the individuals conce...
While the Review acknowledges that the UK’s labour market is currently looking strong, and that flexibility is likely to have played a role in its current success, there exist a number of factors that could lead to poorer outcomes at the individual level. The key factor is an imbalance of power between individuals and employers. Where employers hol...
The shift towards greater variation in working patterns is likely to continue as the economy moves towards full employment and people look for work that suits their individual lifestyles and preferences. Given the positive externalities associated with employment, society benefits from allowing individuals to participate in the labour market in a w...
The UK is good at encouraging economic activity and creating jobs. ‘The British way’ works and we don’t need to overhaul the system. But persistent issues with wage growth and productivity provide sufficient rationale for us to look at how the labour market framework could be improved. We need to make sure the labour market remains dynamic enough t...
The way in which employment protections are applied relies on individuals and employers understanding the type of relationship that exists between them – most basically, deciding whether the individual is an ‘employee’, a ‘worker’ or genuinely self-employed. For a number of reasons, this is becoming more complex for an increasing proportion of the ...
Knowing which employment protections you have as an individual depends on knowing what your employment status is. However, even if an individual believes they know what their status is, if their employer does not agree it can make it difficult to claim rights without recourse to more formal channels. Most people in the UK will be ‘employees’, with ...
As a result of legislation being minimal for so long, and therefore open to interpretation, the courts have established a range of tests and factors to help them make decisions on employment status. These include personal service (whether the individual is required to do the work themselves); the degree of control exercised by the employer, whether...
number of considerations must be addressed if a future framework is going to support fair and decent work. As a first principle, the Government must make legislation clearer. The employment statuses should also be distinct and not open to as much interpretation as currently, nor be so ambiguous that only a court can fully understand the basic princ...
Regardless of how they are employed, whether in a traditional, full-time role or on a more flexible basis, people should understand what rights they have. Even many individuals working in the most casual of relationships are entitled to basic employment rights and should be aware of this. Employment status is the gateway through which an individual...
We have had a number of representations suggesting that the three-tier approach to employment that we currently use should be replaced with a system similar to tax – a binary choice between employment and self-employment.35 We disagree. The status of ‘worker’ provided in employment law is helpful in being able to apply basic protections to less for...
But we do think, on reflection, that this would fail to reflect the increasing casualisation of the labour market – we think it is helpful to have an intermediate category covering casual, independent relationships, with a more limited set of key employment rights applying. We do though think that the current three-tier approach is confusing and th...
Government must make sure that re-defining the boundaries of worker status does not impact on those for whom the current system works well. The majority of the UK labour market is made up of ‘employees’ who have no dispute with their employer. This must remain the case under the new framework. Legislation should continue to ensure ‘employees’ remai...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
Our national strategy for work – the British way – should be explicitly directed toward the goal of good work for all, recognising that good work and plentiful work can and should go together. Good work is something for which Government needs to be held accountable but for which we all need to take responsibility. The same basic principles should ...
- 3MB
- 116
Oct 19, 2018 · So how do we deal with these situations? Is it possible to help the unaware see themselves more clearly? And if we can’t, what can we do to minimize their damage on our success and happiness?
Oct 7, 2021 · Key themes that emerged are: dignity of labour; living wages; universal social protection; applying standards for contractors, sub-contractors and supply chain; finding solutions for the platform economy; driving reskilling and upskilling; rethinking how we work; and ensuring worker empowerment.
People also ask
Do poor management practices make people's working lives miserable?
Who should be protected in work?
What makes a good job?
Which jobs have the poorest work-life balance?
What is good work for all?
Are low-paid jobs a good job?
13 Don’t you realize that those who work at the temple get their food from the temple? Don’t those who help at the altar get a share of what is on the altar? 14 In the same way, the Lord has commanded that those who spread the Good News should earn their living from the Good News.
