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Ethnic minority NHS nurses are much more likely to be turned down for promotion on multiple occasions if they are migrants to the UK than if they qualified here, research…
One in five resident doctors have kept silent when witnessing unsafe clinical practices, often for fear of repercussions for their career, new research has found. Researchers surveyed more than 1,100…
Women doctors are still doing more of the housework than their partners, just as they were decades ago, a new study says. The research found that women doctors were much…
Fewer employees want to work a four-day week now than they did before the Covid pandemic, new research says. The research shows that the idea that the pandemic has led…
The secret of what employees who switch to a four-day week do with their extra day off have been revealed by new research – and some are moonlighting on a…
Mothers who choose to work from home regularly earn around 10% more than those who do not, but fathers get no significant benefit, a major new study says. The study…
The BSA journal, Work, Employment and Society (WES) has just held its first PhD Showcase paper development workshop. In 2022, WES founded the PhD Showcase Section as a new section…
Managers are reluctant to promote or give pay rises to staff who work from home part or all of the time, new research shows. They believe that staff who work…
How, where and why do platform workers protest? Platform work, exemplified by firms like Uber and Deliveroo, attracts seemingly endless discussion; journalistic, political, and sociological. Policy debates generally associate platforms…