Regulating for gender-equitable decent work in social and community services: Bringing the state back in

2021 ◽  
pp. 002218562199678
Author(s):  
Fiona Macdonald ◽  
Sara Charlesworth
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Regulatory Reform ◽  
Community Services ◽  
The State ◽  
Female Employment ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
State Accountability ◽  
Gig Economy

This article explores the potential of regulatory and policy reform for gender-equitable decent work in social and community services, a rapidly growing sector of female employment in many Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries. Along with other feminised sectors, employment in this sector is marked by low rates of unionisation, poor pay and fragmented, insecure working hours. Internationally, gig economy work is now appearing in the sector. A distinguishing feature of the sector is employers’ reliance on government funding through contracted services or via direct payments to individuals. The distance of government from accountability for workers in publicly funded services directly contributes to gendered undervaluation and poor working conditions. However, the presence of the state also provides options for regulatory reform. This article considers the different roles played by government, as employment regulator, as funding and bargaining actor and as market manager and care regulator. Adopting a broad conception of regulation, it canvasses options for bringing the state back in to address gender inequality and precarious work. In the Australian context, it examines potential for rebuilding state accountability for gender-equitable decent work in individualised social care in which the gender inequalities and poor working conditions present in social and community services are amplified.

scholarly journals Decent Work as Determinant of Work Engagement on Dependent Self-Employed

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 2512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Navajas-Romero ◽  
Rosalía Díaz-Carrión ◽  
Antonio Ariza-Montes
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Work Engagement ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
The State ◽  
The Self ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Wage Earners

This article analyzes with a holistic and systematic approach the state of working conditions in self-dependent workers, as well as their effects on workers’ work engagement. For this, a distinction was made between the self-employed, non-dependent self-employed, and wage earners. The sample integrated 42,963 workers who were surveyed, of which 0.03% were dependent self-employed, 13.73% were non-dependent self-employed, and 82.32% were wage earners. The results have broadly confirmed the research purposes and they established that ensuring work engagement is the key to sustainability, growth, and success for workers.

scholarly journals Decent Work as a Necessary Condition for Sustainable Well-Being. A Tale of Pi(i)gs and Farmers

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1051 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Ariza-Montes ◽  
Gabriele Giorgi ◽  
Felipe Hernández-Perlines ◽  
Javier Fiz-Perez
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Systematic Approach ◽  
A Priori ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The State ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Decent Work

This article analyzes with a holistic and systematic approach the state of working conditions in the European labor market after the crisis, as well as their effects on worker well-being. For this, a distinction will be made between the southern countries most affected, namely Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, and Spain (Piigs), and the northern countries that are, a priori, less damaged by the crisis (Farmers). The samples integrate 7867 workers from the five Piigs countries (36.2%) and 13,894 from the 10 Farmers countries (63.8%). The results have broadly confirmed the research purposes and they established that ensuring well-being is the key to sustainability, growth, and success for workers, groups, and organizations.

scholarly journals Legal regulation of remote (home-based) work during quarantine

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shovkun Juliya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
State Committee ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Remote Work ◽  
Labor Laws ◽  
Home Based ◽  
Labor Legislation ◽  
Remote Workers

Investigated are the amendments to the Labor Code of Ukraine aimed at providing additional social and economic guarantees in connection with the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-2019) to consolidate remote (home-based) work. Analyzed are the correlation and differences in the meaning of the newly introduced concept in the Code of Labor Laws of Ukraine of remote (home-based) work and the concept of home-based work in the understanding of the still valid in Soviet times Regulations on working conditions of remote workers, approved by the State Committee of the USSR and VTSRPS 275 / 17-99. Revealed is the content of the concept of remote (home-based) work and features of its application in the labor legislation. In particular, against the background of the analysis of legislation and scientific approaches, attention was paid to certain shortcomings and differences of terminological understanding of the concept of remote (home-based) work, considered the issue of remuneration in various cases of introduction, remote (home-based) work, working hours dispute before the court. Keywords: remote (home-based) work, home-based work, remote worker, remote work

Characterisation of self-employment in Spain. An analysis from the gender perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Belén Castro Núñez ◽  
Rosa Santero Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Level Of Education ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Contract Duration ◽  
Occupational Characteristics ◽  
Previous Occupation ◽  
Cumulative Experience

The growing presence of women on the Spanish labour market in the last few decades has revealed gender inequalities that affect both participation indicators such the activity or unemployment rate, and working conditions (working hours, contract duration, salaries, etc.). There are also inequalities in self-employment. This research identifies and tests the existence of different personal and occupational characteristics, including previous occupation in the entrepreneurial sector and elsewhere, of self-employed individuals in Spain. The results show that there are characteristics that distinguish self-employed entrepreneurship from the perspective of gender, such as level of education, instability in working history, the sector concerned and cumulative experience in that sector. This enables us to identify specific profiles for men and women, and highlights the convenience of designing activities differentiated by gender for promoting entrepreneurship. Keywords: Entrepreneurship, Self-employment, Profiles, Working History, Gender.

scholarly journals Understanding the Working Conditions of Gig Workers and Decent Work: Evidence from Indonesia’s online Ojek Riders

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex De Ruyter ◽  
Riani Rachmawati
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Active State ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Taxi Drivers ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
Motorcycle Taxi ◽  
Better Than

This article aims to evaluate the working conditions of gig economy workers in Indonesia in order to understand the implications of such work for the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda. The article draws on evidence from focus groups and in-terviews with 38 ojek riders, Indonesian motorcycle taxi drivers from Jakarta, Bogor and Depok. Initial findings suggest that the interviewees chose to be ojek riders due to limited employment opportunities; they perceived that this kind of work is better than contract-based employment massively practiced by many companies in Indonesia. The findings further suggest that the Decent Work Agenda faces considerable challenges from new forms of non-employee work in the absence of a pro-active state agenda to regulate and promote the growth of waged employment.

The results of the study of the workers’ health according to the survey

2020 ◽  
pp. 793-793
Author(s):  
M. A. Fesenko ◽  
E. V. Zueva ◽  
E. V. Fedorova
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Intermediate Stage ◽  
The State

The possibility of using the survey as an intermediate stage of assessing the state of working conditions and health of workers. It is concluded that this method is not applicable as an independent device but can be used with other methods of medical research.

Assessing social sustainability in the gig economy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muralidharan Loganathan
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Development Goal ◽  
Country Level ◽  
Gig Economy ◽  
The World ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth

Sustainable Development Goal 8 to “Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all” necessitates country level measures across the world. We take forward a comparative analysis of India’s SDG 8 indicator list with both the UN and ILO measurements. We note inadequate measurements on social-protection and rights for non-standard forms of employment including gig work, that are intermediated by ICT platforms. From our analysis we identify some levers to broaden the current indicator measurements to include these non-standard workers as well, to improve social sustainability.

scholarly journals Health Status of Healthcare Professionals Working in an Institute for Chronically Ill Psychiatric Patients

2015 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-52
Author(s):  
Katalin Nagyváradi ◽  
Zsuzsa Mátrai
Keyword(s):  
Health Status ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Subjective Health ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Subjective Health Status ◽  
Objective Health

AbstractSeveral research works in the related international literature on sociology and health sciences deal with the state of health in one selected population. In these studies, the chosen sample is often connected with special jobs, especially with healthcare professionals and their working conditions. These studies predominantly examine the self-rated subjective health status using questionnaires. There are others that assess the state of health based not only on self-rated subjective indicators, but also using objective data gained by measuring. Considering the international experiences, we chose a special population in our research – healthcare professionals working in an institute for chronically ill psychiatric patients. Our choice was influenced by the fact that we wanted to include their unique working conditions when exploring and assessing their health status. Moreover, our approach was to assess the objective state of health alongside the subjective factors, as our hypothesis was that the majority of the indicators presumably coincided. The data were collected with the help of three questionnaires and some indicators of the objective health statuses were measured. The findings were processed using the SPSS 17.0 mathematical-statistical software package. Following the descriptive statistics, we applied hierarchic cluster-analysis based on results of the WHOQOLD-BREF26 life-quality questionnaire, the WHO WBI-5 Well Being Index, and on the body composition analysis. The results show the objective and subjective health status of population and the factors that influenced it; the working conditions and the interpersonal contacts in the workplace. The conclusion was that in the examined population the subjective and objective health status doesn’t coincide.

scholarly journals Professionalisation of early childhood education and care practitioners: Working conditions in Ireland

2021 ◽  
pp. 146394912110101
Author(s):  
Geraldine Mooney Simmie ◽  
Dawn Murphy
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Women Workers ◽  
Early Childhood Education ◽  
Performance Management ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
The State ◽  
Developmental Needs ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Education And Care

The last decade has revealed a global (re)configuring of the relationships between the state, society and educational settings in the direction of systems of performance management. In this article, the authors conduct a critical feminist inquiry into this changing relationship in relation to the professionalisation of early childhood education and care practitioners in Ireland, with a focus on dilemmatic contradictions between the policy reform ensemble and practitioners’ reported working conditions in a doctoral study. The critique draws from the politics of power and education, and gendered and classed subjectivities, and allows the authors to theorise early childhood education and care professionalisation in alternative emancipatory ways for democratic pedagogy rather than a limited performativity. The findings reveal the state (re)configured as a central command centre with an over-reliance on surveillance, alongside deficits of responsibility for public interest values in relation to the working conditions of early childhood education and care workers, who are mostly part-time ‘pink-collar’ women workers in precarious roles. The study has implications that go beyond Ireland for the professionalisation of early childhood education and care workers and meeting the early developmental needs of young children.

scholarly journals Surgical leadership within rapidly changing working conditions in Germany

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Schmitz-Rixen ◽  
Reinhart T. Grundmann
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Corporate Culture ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Working Hours ◽  
Physician Assistants ◽  
Work Life ◽  
Work Life Balance ◽  
Life Balance ◽  
Surgical Department ◽  
Chief Physician

AbstractIntroductionAn overview of the requirements for the head of a surgical department in Germany should be given.Materials and methodsA retrospective literature research on surgical professional policy publications of the last 10 years in Germany was conducted.ResultsSurveys show that commercial influences on medical decisions in German hospitals have today become an everyday, predominantly negative, actuality. Nevertheless, in one survey, 82.9% of surgical chief physicians reported being very satisfied with their profession, compared with 61.5% of senior physicians and only 43.4% of hospital specialists. Here, the chief physician is challenged. Only 70% of those surveyed stated that they could rely on their direct superiors when difficulties arose at work, and only 34.1% regarded feedback on the quality of their work as sufficient. The high distress rate in surgery (58.2% for all respondents) has led to a lack in desirability and is reflected in a shortage of qualified applicants for resident positions. In various position papers, surgical residents (only 35% describe their working conditions as good) demand improved working conditions. Chief physicians are being asked to facilitate a suitable work-life balance with regular working hours and a corporate culture with participative management and collegial cooperation. Appreciation of employee performance must also be expressed. An essential factor contributing to dissatisfaction is that residents fill a large part of their daily working hours with non-physician tasks. In surveys, 70% of respondents stated that they spend up to ≥3 h a day on documentation and secretarial work.DiscussionThe chief physician is expected to relieve his medical staff by employing non-physician assistants to take care of non-physician tasks. Transparent and clearly structured training to achieve specialist status is essential. It has been shown that a balanced work-life balance can be achieved for surgeons. Family and career can be reconciled in appropriately organized departments by making use of part-time and shift models that exclude 24-h shifts and making working hours more flexible.

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