By Anna Ritchie Allan, Executive Director, Close the Gap Before the Covid-19 pandemic, Close the Gap was working to highlight the increasing precarity of women’s employment in Scotland. This labour market trend was then exacerbated by Covid-19 job disruption which hit women the hardest, risking a rollback of progress that had been made on women’s … Read more
40 Scottish employers have now committed to provide secure and stable working hours with the Living Hours scheme Over 37,000 employees working for Scottish based Living Hours employers The Living Hours movement aims to tackle short-shift culture which sees 250 thousand workers in Scotland trapped in low-paid, insecure jobs The Living Hours scheme to tackle … Read more
Living Hours scheme marks 100 sign-ups as inflation continues to soar 100 UK employers have now committed to provide secure and stable working hours with the Living Wage Foundation’s Living Hours scheme; Over 50,000 workers stand to benefit from Living Hours measures so far; 30 of these 100 Living Hours employers are based in Scotland, … Read more