Work-Life Balance, Fairness and Social Justice during recession and economic austerity
| Dates: | 11 April 2014 |
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| Times: | 10:00 - 16:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | Policy@Manchester |
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| Who is it for: | University staff |
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| Speaker: | Professor Collete Fagan, Dr Helen Norman |
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The first seminar of the ESRC funded series, affiliated with the Fairness at Work Research Centre
The seminar series brings together researchers and practitioners to seek solutions to a ‘triple agenda’: how to enhance employees’ WLB, organisational effectiveness and social justice. It identifies changes in work arrangements and WLB policies and asks:
• Whether WLB is becoming more difficult for everyone, or is the impact uneven?
• Are economic pressures reducing employers’ willingness to implement WLB initiatives, or making it more difficult to do so?
• Which national and organizational WLB policies and services are resilient, which are adapting and which are being cut back?
• How do these developments impact on different groups of workers?
In this second seminar we consider these questions through a focus on occupational and contractual inequalities in working schedules and WLB, and the gender inequalities which are woven throughout. The seminar opens with an analysis of the situation in UK and France, and then locates the discussion in the wider European policy perspective. The afternoon session continues the discussion of the equality, diversity and social justice issues involved, with a break out session to consider practical implications and possible solutions. The seminar aim is to contribute to evidence-based debates about WLB policies and practices.
Please register here: http://www.esrc-work-life-seminars.org/registration
Speakers
Professor Collete Fagan
Role: Professor and Faculty Deputy Dean (& Associate Dean - Research)
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Dr Helen Norman
Role: Research Associate
Organisation: The University of Manchester
Travel and Contact Information
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6.207
University Place
Manchester
