Fair Work Oversight Group

Overview

The purpose of the Fair Work Oversight Group is to advise and challenge the Scottish Government, driving progress of the actions detailed in the 2022 Fair Work Action Plan. This includes those relating to the Anti-Racist Employment Strategy.

It’s remit also includes the wider delivery of Fair Work across government and development of annual updates to the relevant Parliamentary committee. 

It also:

• brings key stakeholders together 
• enables taking an intersectional approach to equality issues
• supports and shares ways of making improvements in practice
• considers how to resolve issues and challenges 
• supports the National Strategy of Economic Transformation (NSET) governance process

The group will meet in the middle and at the end of the calendar year, before the annual report is submitted to parliament. 

Members

Chair

• Richard Lochhead, Minister for Business and Employment

Members

• Councillor Richard Bell, COSLA
• Anna Ritchie Allan, Close the Gap
• Charandeep Singh, Scottish Chamber of Commerce
• Dave Moxham, Scottish Trade Union Congress (STUC)
• David Lonsdale, Scottish Retail Consortium
• David Taylor, ACAS
• Eleonora Vanello, Prosper
• Emma Congreve, Fraser of Allander Institute, Strathclyde University
• Heather Fiskin, Inclusion Scotland
• Dr Ima Jackson, Glasgow Caledonian University
• Kimberley Wong, Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights (CRER)
• Marek Zemanik, Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development  (CIPD)
• Michelle Kinnaird, Scottish Enterprise
• Professor Patricia Findlay, Fair Work Convention
• Stephanie Griffin, Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC)

Publications

Fair Work Oversight Group: terms of reference

National Strategy for Economic Transformation: second annual progress report