Press Releases
Sexual harassment of girls is widespread in schools, researchers find
A new study carried out by ¹û¶³´«Ã½â€™s Institute for Employment research for the NEU teaching union and campaign group UK Feminista has found that over a third of girls at mixed-sex schools in England and Wales have been sexually harrassed while at school.
Turning back the clock? Employment rights after Brexit
Over the last 20 years, the UK has become a leader in creating an employment culture that promotes work-family balance and assists working parents. The fourth ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Brexit Briefing on Employment examines how Brexit may risk a return to parents and carers becoming trapped in flexible jobs with fewer rights than full-time, permanent workers, and see men and women returning to entrenched gender roles.
Mind the Gap - how will skills training be funded after Brexit?
The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ has published the third in a series of briefings exploring the implications of Brexit for the job market, workers’ rights, and employment policy. Skills training for vulnerable workers: effects of the loss of EU funding after Brexit outlines how current skills training in the UK is supported by EU funding, and recommends key priorities for a post-Brexit UK-funded skills programme. The paper is the third of four ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Brexit Briefings on Employment by the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ and its Connecting Research on Employment and Work (CREW) network.
¹û¶³´«Ã½ experts analyse how inward investment is likely to be affected by Brexit
The ¹û¶³´«Ã½ has published the second in a series of briefings exploring the implications of Brexit for the job market, workers’ rights, and employment policy. Job Loss and Job Creation – Pitfalls and Opportunities? summarises recent research from the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ on the likely effects of Brexit on inward foreign direct investment (FDI); on the complex interrelationships between inward FDI and employment restructuring; and makes research-led policy recommendations for a post-Brexit industrial strategy.
Army spouses to be the focus for new ¹û¶³´«Ã½ employment research project
The Army Families Federation (AFF) has partnered with the ¹û¶³´«Ã½'s Institute for Employment Research (IER) on a new research project exploring real and perceived barriers to employment for Army families.
Matching skills to jobs boosts happiness, productivity and innovation
Encouraging employers to make the most of their employees’ skills can improve productivity, reduce inequality, and contribute to economic growth, according to a new report launched by the OECD and the ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Institute for Employment Research.