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  • Deliveroo’s performance shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone - people is more than the ‘S’ in ESG.

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    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

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    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?

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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?

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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

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    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”&nbsp...
    • 27 Apr 2020
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