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USOC Wave 16 - Enquiry re: questions on employment rights
Added by Andrei Savitski about 1 month ago.
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Good afternoon,
My name is Andrei Savitski, and I'm a research and data officer at the Work Rights Centre. We're a registered charity organisation in England and Wales, focused on ending in-work poverty and improving access to employment justice. As part of our new strand of research, we are looking into barriers to employment justice and quantifying the scale of precarious work in the UK. I was advised to raise an issue.
Having previously worked on the Understanding Society Survey as part of the Kantar Public team, I believe Wave 16 of the study (or IP16) was supposed to incorporate new questions on employment rights issues. Could you please confirm whether this is correct?
Additionally, I wanted to enquire as to what these questions on employment rights issues are - is there a list of questions and question routing that can be made available? This would be very useful for us in planning our research agenda around the relevant data release.
Many thanks.
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Hi Piotr,
Many thanks for your response. I had a look, but these questions deal more with flexible working and hypothetical employment-related scenarios. If I recall correctly, there were or will be questions introduced (to W16, IP16 or a later survey wave/iteration) that specifically ask about breaches of employment rights. This may be about issues such as bullying in the workplace, not being paid wages for work done or discrimination in the workplace.
Would you be able to direct me to related questions in a questionnaire or, alternatively, provide me with information on which present or future wave/iteration of the survey will contain such questions? Do correct me if I misremembered and questions on employment rights breaches were not in any past wave and are not planned to be included in a present/future wave/iteration of USOC.
Many thanks,
Andrei
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Hi Piotr,
Thanks for getting back to me - I'll have another look at the W16 questionnaire.
Best wishes,
Andrei
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