EU Council agrees its position on proposal for law on pay transparency re equal pay between men and women consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press…

Time to step up and let go of the past Business Schools: "Whether schools [...] can transform themselves will determine whether business education remains relevant and survives in the years ahead" ft.com/content/733c0a…

The Dawning of the Day. 350 years ago, in the 1670s, Irish harper Thomas Connellan looked west across the Atlantic and wrote this beautiful tune. Much later words by the great Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh were added giving the song the title we know it by today, Raglan Road

New analysis reveals a stack of clothing the height of Mt Everest is sent to landfill every 7 minutes Read more about the findings via the link: bit.ly/34VfVe0 #business #businessnews #sustainablebusiness #fashion #waste #fastfashion #sustainability

Can a corporation put on a progressive public face and yet use ham-handed tactics to oppose the unionization of its employees? Definitely worth the 20 minutes. (Spoiler alert: No.) robertreich.substack.com/p/watch-this-f…

Ahead of this morning’s Select Committee (joint Business, Energy, Innovation & Skills and Transport) inquiry into the P&O Ferries scandal, Institute of Employment Rights President Prof Keith Ewing gives an overview of the issues. Essential reading. You can watch proceedings here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/0c…

Drop everything and read this paper: nber.org/system/files/w… The bottom line: Managers with MBAs are the best at taking money from workers and not much else. The findings are damning of business schools, business education, & business "optimizing" practices.

Striking new paper Daron Acemoglu, Alex He, and Daniel le Maire: Eclipse of Rent-Sharing: The Effects of Managers' Business Education on Wages and the Labor Share in 🇺🇸 + 🇩🇰. Managers with MBA ➡️ wages ⬇️ + labor share ⬇️nber.org/system/files/w…

I spoke with Amazon Labor Union IBT about how they beat Amazon's anti-union consultants at their own game. Inside warehouse workers' successful operation to discredit and fluster the company's hired guns who were paid thousands of dollars a day: huffpost.com/entry/how-amaz…

Amazon to ban the word "union" on its new worker chat app, per internal company documents leaked to me. Other banned terms include "living wage," "slave labor," "harassment" and "restrooms" theintercept.com/2022/04/04/ama…

"constraints on the ability of workers to negotiate fairer wages.. [explain] insecure contracts, why the gender pay gap remains persistently wide, and why many workers... are underpaid". Relevant analysis to Ire and UK.

FT highlighting NZ's new Fair Pay Agreements and the "long or unpredictable hours, low pay and insecurity" of many 'essential workers'. ft.com/content/eb94b0…

"Mind the Gap: Gender equality and pay." In this week's #UCDBusinessImpact podcast, Professor Colm McLaughlin Colm McLaughlin talks about the importance of bringing transparency to gender pay issues and on finding out who is paid what - and why. Listen here: hubs.li/Q01c_-z80

Congrats to our Dir of Research BarryC on release of book w Colm McLaughlin Chris F Wright & Brian Harney! An important contribution to evolving landscape of industrial relations & a sneak peak into the #FutureOfWork in a changing 🌎Well done Barry! Looking forward to reading!

UCD College of Business is hiring 6 Ad Astra Asst Profs. Particularly welcome researchers in Bus&Soc, HR Analytics, Int'l HRM, OB or L'ship. App close May 26: ucd.ie/adastrafellows…

Proud to have played a role in producing this Sustainability Handbook as part of the @BITCIreland ‘Building Capabilities’ Subgroup. A fantastic resource for business and for education UCD Smurfit School UCD Quinn School!

Hello everyone 👋 🚨Special issue announcement! 🚨 As you might know, we’ve got a CfP for a special issue of Industrial Relations on legitimacy and employment relations! Have a wee look here 👀: tinyurl.com/njp6rkhe

Short‐term fix or remedy for market failure? Immigration policy as a distinct source of skills New Open Access article with Colm McLaughlin in Industrial Relations Journal University of Sydney University College Dublin onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

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