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This quarterly email update keeps you informed about recent and forthcoming public policy developments and gives you useful links to the CIPD website. Your latest edition of The HR Lobby includes:
- CIPD research shows the demand for working beyond state retirement age is set to soar
- CIPD members met BERR* officials and Imelda Walsh, who chairs the government's review into extending the existing statutory right to request flexible working.
As a CIPD member you have an important role to play in informing our position on key public policy issues through our online polls and wider consultation process. Your participation is important to us. Why not join our online discussion forums? We are currently debating the CIPD's gloomy jobs forecast, do you think we have been too pessimistic in our predictions?
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CIPD public policy news
Public policy news highlighted for you in this issue:
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Engaging with Whitehall and WestminsterRecent developments include:
- CIPD advisers and members have fed their views into the Government's review on the right to request flexible working at a meeting chaired by Imelda Walsh.
- The CIPD is to assist BERR in developing its online 'virtual HR' resource for small businesses.
- BERR updated CIPD's Employee Relations Adviser, Mike Emmott, that the Gibbons agenda will be moving forward to encourage earlier resolution and including a strengthened role for Acas
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Forthcoming eventsBERR Secretary of State, John Hutton, to speak at joint CIPD/Acas event on 'Employment Relations in the 21st Century'
John Hutton is the keynote speaker at a joint event we are organising with Acas on 6th February entitled 'Successful Workplaces: Employment relations in the twenty-first century.' The event focuses on the overarching and mutual themes of employee engagement and productivity and explores some of the key issues in modern employment relations. Specific topics include diversity, employee voice and the future of dispute resolution at work.
Labour Market Outlook - Parliamentary Launch
The CIPD will be launching its quarterly Labour Market Outlook survey report on the 5 March in the Macmillan Suite, Portcullis House. This quarter’s report focuses on the European Agency Workers and Working Time directives.
If you would like to attend or would like further details on these events, please email Anna Wallace | |
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