Hamilton, Peter and Harness, Oonagh and Griffin, Martyn (2022) 'Life during furlough: Challenges to dignity from a changed employment status.', Industrial Relations Journal, 53 (6). pp. 523-544.
Abstract
In response to the COVID-19 virus, the UK government introduced the Job Retention Scheme in March 2020. The scheme, a novelty in the United Kingdom, provided income support to those furloughed from work. In this paper, we examine how individuals in several occupations and organisations experienced furlough and how they were treated during this enforced period of work absence. Beyond describing their experiences during the furlough, we examine how these experiences threatened and challenged their sense of dignity. Experientially we report on furlough as a time that elicited both delight and despair. The analysis of dignity relates to how treatment based on their employment status rendered many employees marginalised and cast adrift.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Full text: | (VoR) Version of Record Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Download PDF (197Kb) |
| Status: | Peer-reviewed |
| Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12384 |
| Publisher statement: | This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Date accepted: | 11 October 2022 |
| Date deposited: | 21 December 2022 |
| Date of first online publication: | 24 October 2022 |
| Date first made open access: | 21 December 2022 |
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