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  • Paper: Underemployment pervasive for part-time workers in Illinois

    Photo of Alison Dickson, a senior instructor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

    As many as 61% of hourly workers in Illinois are underemployed, underscoring the need for the state to adopt a fair-workweek law, says Alison Dickson, a senior instructor in the School of Labor and Employment Relations at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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  • Editor’s notes: To contact Alison Dickson, email aquesada@illinois.edu.

    The paper “Precarious times at work: Detrimental hours and scheduling in Illinois and how fair workweek policies will improve workers’ well-being” is available online.