Reducing precarious work: some lessons from the Covid pandemic, Prof Jill Rubery

Prof Jill Rubery, Director of the Work and Equalities Institute of the University of Manchester, writes this article within the framework of the EU funded project “Precarious work: empowering trade unions to address new challenges”.

Prof Jill Rubery writes this piece for the #noprecariouswork project that CESI is currently managing. Through her writing, she reflects on the impacts that the Covid pandemic is having on the access to social security protection and the what are the implications for precarious workers.

In her words “The growing crisis made the growing gaps in employment and social protection systems more visible as access to support became essential for survival (…) However, the likelihood of mass unemployment and a long recession post Covid might drive changes in the opposite direction, exacerbating trends towards precariousness at work.”

It is up to trade unions and relevant stakeholders to make sure the lessons from the pandemic will be learnt.

Read the article in full here.

To learn more about precarious work visit the no precarious work website.

This project is mainly funded by funds from the European Union.