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Questions - Fair Work in your sector - Opportunities

1. What is the main sector you work in or represent?

Please select your main sector
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Accommodation and food service activities
Activities of extraterritorial organisations and bodies
Activities of households as employers; undifferentiated goods and services-producing activities of households for own use
Administrative and support service activities
Agriculture, forestry and fishing
Arts, entertainment and recreation
Construction
Education
Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
Financial and insurance activities
Human health and social work activities
Information and communication
Manufacturing
Mining and quarrying
Other service activities
Professional, scientific and technical activities
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
Real estate activities
Transport and storage
Water supply; sewerage, waste management and remediation activities
Wholesale and retail trade; repair of motor vehicles and motor cycles

2. What are the main opportunities for adopting fair work practices in your sector?

Fair management, managers have experience of the same role. So long as outcomes are met 'how' this is done is not directed.

3. Please explain how you think these opportunities can be maximised in your sector?

Progressing management through the organisation with permanent employees

Questions - Fair Work in your sector - Challenges

4. What are the main challenges to adopting fair work practices in your sector?

Ingrained ideas of work outdated work practices

5. Please explain how you think these challenges might be overcome, including your ideas on any specific interventions and support needed in your sector?

Allow / budget for the newer work practices to be employed an demonstrated

Questions - Fair Work in the current economic context

6. What do you believe are the barriers to delivering Fair Work given the current economic challenges in Scotland?

The Scottish Government's focus on independence rather than the economy.

7. What do you believe are the opportunities for delivering Fair Work in the current economic climate in Scotland?

Move towards more flexible work arrangements allowing wider pool of resource.

Questions - Further actions to deliver Fair Work

8. Please set out any further actions you think the Scottish Government should take to deliver fair work for everyone. This may include, for example, any further support you think is needed.

Better transport and education policies

9. Please set out any other actions you think are required to deliver Fair Work for everyone, including who should take this action.

organisations to accommodate flexible work practices and take into account training, maternity leave, paternity leave, caring for family. Planning should be based on estimating work including this flexibility.

Questions - Fair Work and employment powers

10. If Scotland had full control over employment law, which issues would you like to see addressed as a priority in order to deliver fairer work in Scotland?

Reduction from no more than 48 hours for working week to no more than 40 hours.

Questions - further ideas

11. What is the most important thing that you or your organisation can do to help Scotland become a Fair Work Nation?

Not sure

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15. Are you responding as an individual or an organisation?

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