Submission to the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee’s Inquiry ‘Post-pandemic economic growth: UK labour markets’

This submission to the Parliamentary committee consultation builds on several past and ongoing research projects that focus on several sectors of the economy: agri-foods industries, nursing, education, the arts). In terms of geographic coverage, the findings relate to the UK-wide picture, or to several regions (eg., Cambridgeshire, Essex, Kent). The key contributions and proposals in this submission relate to: i. The state of play in the UK labour market pre-and post-Brexit and the impact of the covid-19 pandemic on recruitment, skills shortages and the growth of the labour market; ii. Workers’ rights and protections; iii. Employment status and modern working practices since the Taylor Review 2017.