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Why do we accept low pay for key workers as the norm?

Steve Bridger

Key workers tend to earn less and suffer poorer job quality than others: why do we accept this as the norm for so many roles that play such an important part in our society?

Melanie Green poses this and others questions in a new post here:

https://www.cipd.co.uk/Community/blogs/b/research-blog/posts/does-low-pay-and-poor-job-quality-really-need-to-be-an-inevitable-fact-of-key-worker-life

I'd be particularly keen to hear from those community members who work in care settings.

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  • Thanks for all the responses to this thread- an important and interesting debate about wider inequalities in society, and how we value and reward different job roles.

    I wonder what your views are on the role of employers in challenging the status quo here- including pay, but beyond that too. For example in this year’s CIPD Good Work Index we’ve noted inequalities in workload and availability for flexible workers for key workers too (as others have noted in this thread, ‘key worker’ is a broad definition so this won’t be true of all key worker roles but certainly some- and of course some of these are issues for those that fall out of this definition too).  What action can employers and people professionals take?

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  • Thanks for all the responses to this thread- an important and interesting debate about wider inequalities in society, and how we value and reward different job roles.

    I wonder what your views are on the role of employers in challenging the status quo here- including pay, but beyond that too. For example in this year’s CIPD Good Work Index we’ve noted inequalities in workload and availability for flexible workers for key workers too (as others have noted in this thread, ‘key worker’ is a broad definition so this won’t be true of all key worker roles but certainly some- and of course some of these are issues for those that fall out of this definition too).  What action can employers and people professionals take?

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