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Deliveroo’s performance shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone - people is more than the ‘S’ in ESG.
Public Policy
Dr Scarlett Brown, Policy Consultant. Last week added more evidence to the argument (as if we needed more) that you can’t build a successful business without investing in your people. Deliveroo and Uber demonstrate the risks that...
7 Apr 2021
No improvement in median gender pay gap for 2020 but number of employers reporting drops 77% compared with 2018
Public Policy
The reporting deadline for employers to file their gender pay gap figures for 2020 has just passed and we’ve carried out some
initial analysis
to get an understanding of the lay of the land. We found the median gender pay gap was 12.8%, or for ...
7 Apr 2021
What more can we do to tackle gender inequalities in our workplaces?
Public Policy
Claire McCartney, Senior Policy Adviser, Resourcing & InclusionThis month sees the celebration of International Women’s day on 8 March and the accompanying call to recognise women’s achievement, raise awa...
8 Mar 2021
#FlexFrom1st
Public Policy
By guest blogger and CIPD Member Gemma Dale.I was delighted to see the new campaign from the CIPD, calling on organisations and the government to make the right to request flexibly working from the first day of employment. The law relating to flexibl...
1 Mar 2021
Gender pay gap reporting is integral to our ability to level up and build back better
Public Policy
Charles Cotton, senior policy adviser, performance and reward. Gender pay gap reporting is an important tool for ensuring that the way we manage, develop and reward people is fair. Employers can boost the impact of...
24 Feb 2021
What’s happened to L&D during the COVID-19 pandemic and what does it mean for the future? Share your views
Public Policy
By Lizzie Crowley, Senior Policy Adviser, Skills. Last year was a demanding one for people professionals, the organisations they work for and the colleagues they support. For learning professionals, the overnight shift to remote working du...
15 Jan 2021
Stepping up support for working parents in this latest lockdown period
Public Policy
By Claire McCartney, Senior Policy Adviser, Resourcing & Inclusion at the CIPD. Following the Government’s announcement this week of a new lockdown period and the closure of primary and secondary schools, working parents are once again havi...
11 Jan 2021
Now is not the time to take our focus away from gender equality
Public Policy
Claire McCartney, Senior Policy Adviser, Resourcing and Inclusion, CIPDWe need to ensure that Diversity and Inclusion issues remain front and centre in our workforce decision-making and plans during and coming out of this pandemic.Organisations are p...
22 Dec 2020
New approach to labour market enforcement needed to raise people management standards and protect employment rights
Public Policy
By Ben Willmott, Head of Public Policy at the CIPD. A new approach to labour market enforcement is required which places as much emphasis on supporting firms to comply with employment regulation as it does on enforcement action and financial penaltie...
11 Dec 2020
Updated Disability Confident and CIPD guide for line managers on disability employment published
Public Policy
By Justin Tomlinson MP, Minister of State for Disabled People, Health and WorkToday is the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the annual event to celebrate the contribution of disabled people across the world. I know that many of your or...
3 Dec 2020
CIPD and the Mental Health at Work Commitment
Public Policy
Brad Taylor, Director of People, OD and Workplace at the CIPD, outlines how the CIPD has continued to meet the Mental Health at Work Commitment during an unprecedented year. Caring for people’s mental health is a big responsibility and on...
1 Dec 2020
Exodus of EU workers highlights need to boost training so UK employees can fill skills gap
Public Policy
Gerwyn Davies, Senior Policy Adviser at the CIPD, outlines how the labour market is evolving as a result of the pandemic. The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) labour market statistics highlight a dramatic fall in the number of EU-born cit...
17 Nov 2020
The time is now: Why Compass has committed to the Real Living Wage
Public Policy
By Donna Catley, Chief People Officer, Compass Group UK and Ireland The COVID-19 crisis has seen essential frontline workers move from being an invisible workforce to being identified as the nation’s “key workers”. A light has righ...
9 Nov 2020
National Stress Awareness Day
Public Policy
By Rob Vondy, Head of Stress Policy at The Health and Safety Executive As we recognise National Stress Awareness day, this anniversary is like no other given the impact of the global pandemic.Work-related Stress is a priority health t...
3 Nov 2020
Championing better work and working lives: a year in review of the CIPD’s public policy work in 2019–20
Public Policy
By Paddy Smith, Public Affairs Manager. An integral part of the CIPD’s mission to champion better work and working lives is to drive change with government and policy makers that improves the world of work for all. We do this through our p...
16 Sep 2020
Keeping menopause firmly on the workplace agenda
Public Policy
By Deborah Garlick, Director,
Henpicked: Menopause in the Workplace
. During the course of the last six months, the world’s attention has been firmly focused on Covid-19. Its effects have been pervasive, touching on almost every aspect of o...
14 Sep 2020
Why ‘good work’ is key to recovery from Covid-19
Public Policy
The issue of job quality might seem less important than it did six months ago in light of the devastating effect Covid-19 is having on people’s health, their economic security and employment prospects. As unemployment rises during lockdown and ...
16 Jul 2020
How HR, D&I Practitioners, CEOs & Line Managers Can Support Black Colleagues
Public Policy
By Petunia Thomas, MBA CPCC Black colleagues and network groups have been dealing with, at a conscious and subconscious level: their own experiences of racism past and present, the external atrocity of George Floyd’s murder and countless others...
1 Jul 2020
Why ethnicity pay gap reporting has to be introduced
Public Policy
By Ben Wilmott, Head of Public Policy, CIPD Greater transparency over workforce diversity can help drive change. Recent events have again demonstrated that racial injustice and inequality remains a fact of life for far too many people and contin...
24 Jun 2020
It’s time to close the gap between learning intent and action
Public Policy
Andy Young is Managing Director within the Talent and Organisation Practice at Accenture.It would be an understatement to say the past few months have been different. Many organisations have had to redeploy, upskill, or reskill staff q...
22 Jun 2020
Are we more productive working at home?
Public Policy
By Mark Beatson We know already that the economic news in the short-term will be dire. How dire will depend in part on how productive the millions of people working from home have been. The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a massive increase in hom...
17 Jun 2020
Learning and Skills at Work Survey
Public Policy
By Lizzie Crowley, Senior Policy Adviser - Skills.Learning at work has never been more important. Learning builds skill sets, supports career development, enhances job satisfaction and retention, and supports improved workforce productivity. In times...
8 Jun 2020
When lockdown measures ease, trust-based employment relations will be key to an organisation's response
Public Policy
By Ben Willmott, Head of Public Policy at CIPD.As UK businesses wait to see the UK Government’s employer guidance on working safely when lockdown measures are eased, they should also prepare for the bigge...
6 May 2020
Resourcing and the impact of COVID-19
Public Policy
By Claire McCartney, Senior Policy Adviser at CIPD. The Resourcing and Talent Planning Survey is now live…The impact of the coronavirus means that the way organisations resource and plan their workforce is changing rapidly. The CIPD ...
30 Apr 2020
The new normal, whatever that is
Public Policy
By Adrian Wakeling, Senior Policy Advisor, Acas “It's a cliché but when this is over, I'll never, EVER take anything for granted again …. we thought we were awake, but we were truly sleepwalking” ...
27 Apr 2020
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