1. What MAKES WORK DECENT?

2. Session 1
What makes work decent?

3. Photo credit: Mo Riza, Creative Commons
Photo: Mo Riza, Creative Commons
Photo credit: Mo Riza, Creative Commons

4. Photo credit: Royal Navy Medics, Creative Commons

5. Photo credit: Logan Campbell, Creative Commons

6. Photo credit: US Army RDECOM, Creative Commons

7. Photo credit: Piotr Mamnaimie, Creative Commons

8. SESSION 2

9. See Even it up: A blueprint for change for further details:

10. Work is the best way for people to get out of poverty.

11. It is difficult to find decent work in Wales.

12. Everyone should have the right to decent work.

13. The minimum wage set by the UK Government is enough to live on.

14. 23% of Welsh household are living in relative poverty
Working in Wales
23% of Welsh household are living in relative poverty
50% of all Welsh household in poverty have at least one person in employment
1 in 4 of people working in Wales are paid less than the Living Wage
62% of UK workers who are paid less than the Living Wage are women
80% of all part-time jobs in Wales are held by women.
See Even it up: A blueprint for change for further details:

15. What are they trying to change?
Making change happen
Read the case study and discuss the following:
What is the problem?
What are they trying to change?
Who are what are they trying to change?
Who has most influence over this factor?
Do you think the factors they are addressing are important?