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Phillip Blond
Director
Phillip is an internationally recognised political thinker and social and economic commentator. He bridges the gap between politics and practice, offering strategic consultation and policy formation to governments, businesses and...
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Mark Morrin
Principal Research Consultant
Mark is an experienced policy and research strategist with over 20 years working in partnership with businesses, public bodies, cities and counties to develop successful place-making strategies. Mark has contributed...
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Mike Mavrommatis
Head of External Affairs
Mike Mavrommatis is tasked with devising and implementing ResPublica’s Communications strategy and Events activity. He focuses on enhancing the integration between the various pieces of RePublica’s work, and fostering coherent...
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Mike Jones
Senior Policy Researcher
MIKE JONES is a political scientist focussing on public administration and the political economy. He became involved in politics in the 2000s as a member of David Cameron’s Global Poverty...
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Lola Salem
Research Assistant - Lifelong Education Commission
LOLA SALEM is a research assistant at ResPublica working to deliver activities and content relating to the Lifelong Education Commission, including its events. Lola is a DPhil student at the...
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.@CSkidmoreUK Has the UK relied too heavily on migrant workers? I don’t think we’ll reach an equilibrium point wh… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@abicadams: How important will green employment be? Good question. There’s been a lot of work done here by the OEC… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes Two interesting points here. First, the wider wellbeing issue. Work does not feel fulfilling for many peo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@DamianCollins Q: Is there a danger of commoditising the workforce? Yes, and the gig economy is an extreme exampl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK There’s a massive under-investment of companies in their workers’ human capital. Within the tax syst… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@DamianCollins Sure, you could have a Charter of Standards, but will companies enforce it? Having a minimum amoun… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@DamianCollins In the gig economy, your success in getting a job is dictated by an algorithm. That doesn’t feel l… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@DamianCollins There’s no consistency in how the gig economy is regulated. We need to set common standards. Howev… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@DamianCollins Is that right? We need to look at this in the context of workers’ rights *and* also the way in whi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Taking part this morning in @res_publica @jrf_uk event on tackling unemployment and poverty- focusing my contribution on h…
.@DamianCollins In the gig economy, people are committed to a lot of waiting-around time. And there are fewer in-w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@DamianCollins Not all people who work in the gig economy work exclusively within it. This is, however, a growing… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK Every mind has the opportunity to push itself further, whether that’s in HE or FE or employment-base… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK Arguments about student finance do not deal with the perceptions and realities of debt. We need to u… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK For example, when you look at the Maintenance Loan, that sum is deducted from Universal Credit. Here… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK One solution: a leveling-up education fund that is micro-targeted. We also need to look at structura… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK 1 in 9 working adults have no qualifications, but this varies from constituency to constituency. We… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@CSkidmoreUK Furlough provides us with a moment to take stock and focus on the training of workers. We have a str… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes The government has committed to an Employment Bill. That’s a welcome development. However, we should have… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes What sort of labour market do we want to rebuild? 1/8 workers are in poverty. That’s not good enough. Com… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes Insecure work lowers morale, while businesses invest less in the skills of their transient staff. UK busi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes Rising employment rates should generate falling poverty. But as the employment rate reached a record 76%… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes Work itself is becoming less effective in providing adequate earnings, even as the National Living Wage w… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@dminnes Half of care workers are earning less than the living wage. And if you were on a zero-hours contract, yo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
.@BenChu_: Do you have a view about the low-income insecure workforce?
@abicadams 30-35% of new jobs are being a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…