April 2016
Have you ever had wages withheld or unpaid? Or helped someone who has? As a result of late cancellations, the Unpaid Britain project has two spare places going at our workshop on 9th May, and we would like to fill them with people with direct experience of unpaid wages.
The workshop is intended to help us with our research into this phenomenon. Our next phase will be the selection of case studies to look in detail at the causes, experiences and remedies for unpaid wages. However we feel that this cannot be done effectively without developing a typology of non-payment, to help us choose case studies that illustrate each type. We have developed a draft typology but the time has come for it to be scrutinised, and tested to ensure its robustness. The Typology workshop will consist of 30 experts from a variety of backgrounds ranging from trade union, employment lawyers, academics, citizens advice, conciliation organisations, think tanks, charitable trusts, monitoring organisations and employers, all of whom have an interest in the subject of non-payment.
Held at Middlesex University’s Hendon Campus, the workshop will start at 12:30 with a light lunch reception, continue until 4.30 and end with a drink and a discussion. There will be short contributions from Anna Kyprianou Dean and Pro-vice chancellor of the Middlesex University Business School, Michael Reed, Principal Legal Officer (Employment) at the Free Representation Unit, Oxford University lecturer Jenny Chan (expert in Labour Rights in China), and project leader Nick Clark. However most of the afternoon will consist of discussions in working groups, as they scrutinise, critique and think of cases that fit or do not fit in to the Typology.
We would love to fill the two places now vacant. If you or any one you know has experience or expertise in the field of non-payment and is interested in attending on the 9th of May please contact us by emailing: e.herman@mdx.ac.uk.