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  • The success of NI Water’s apprenticeship scheme

    The success of NI Water’s apprenticeship scheme

    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    The winner of CIPD Northern Ireland’s Best Apprenticeship Scheme Award is improving diversity and building a talent pipeline as well as supporting young people into jobs, says Lee Ann Panglea.  Northern Ireland Apprenticeship Week this yea...
    • 6 Feb 2023
  • What businesses need to do to attract - and keep - top talent

    What businesses need to do to attract - and keep - top talent

    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    By Deborah Stevenson, Chief People Officer, PwC Operate Lots has been said and written about the so-called Great Resignation - and rightly. COVID-19 gave people the time and opportunity to reevaluate their lives, what they value and what they want t...
    • 7 Jun 2022
  • Northern Ireland Skills Barometer 2021

    Northern Ireland Skills Barometer 2021

    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser at the CIPD in Northern Ireland  As the immediate concerns over the pandemic impact on the Northern Irish economy abated, new challenges reared their heads – be it labour and skills shortages ...
    • 5 Apr 2022
  • Better work and working lives for Northern Ireland

    Better work and working lives for Northern Ireland

    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    By Marek Zemanik – Senior Public Policy Adviser.  My last blog, looking at some of the political and policy issues that are likely to dominate the NI Assembly election, was published exactly two days before Paul Givan resigned as First Min...
    • 1 Mar 2022
  • Looking ahead to the 2022 NI Assembly election

    Looking ahead to the 2022 NI Assembly election

    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    By Marek Zemanik – Senior Public Policy Adviser.    It has been a tumultuous five years in Northern Ireland. The first three of these were marked by the collapse of the Assembly amid disagreements over power-sharing and policy. Then, ...
    • 1 Feb 2022
  • Northern Ireland Civil Service is taking action against domestic and sexual abuse

    Northern Ireland Civil Service is taking action against domestic and sexual abuse

    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    Domestic abuse has an impact at work where it can negatively affect those who are abused as well as their colleagues.  The CIPD and the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) recently produced a guide for employers for managing and supporti...
    • 7 Dec 2021
  • Extending bereavement leave and pay in Northern Ireland

    Extending bereavement leave and pay in Northern Ireland

    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    By Olivia Carson, Public Affairs Officer The CIPD in Northern Ireland are a key partner of the Coalition of Bereaved Workers which is campaigning to see bereavement leave and pay extended to all employees in Northern Ireland bereaved of a close rela...
    • 6 Sep 2021
  • Skills - bringing public policy and practice together

    Skills - bringing public policy and practice together

    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    By Lee Ann Panglea – Head of CIPD Scotland and Northern Ireland    The CIPD’s public policy work in Northern Ireland is stepping up. And it is happening at a very opportune time too – skills policy has shot up to the top o...
    • 5 Jul 2021
  • Flex from 1st: CIPD member Heather Palmer on first-hand experiences of flexible working over the last year

    Flex from 1st: CIPD member Heather Palmer on first-hand experiences of flexible working over the last year

    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    Heather Palmer, founder KaleidoPeople and HR Business Partner Employee Relations and Policy BBC. 1) How do you think attitudes to flexible working have changed over the last year? The attitudes to flexibility a...
    • 1 Jul 2021
  • Flex from 1st: CIPD member, Bob van Geldere on first-hand experiences of flexible working over the last year

    Flex from 1st: CIPD member, Bob van Geldere on first-hand experiences of flexible working over the last year

    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    Bob van Geldere, HR Manager, Clanmil Housing. 1) How do you think attitudes to flexible working have changed over the last year? Many organisations already had some flexible working arrangements ...
    • 1 Jul 2021
  • Flex from 1st: Rise of the Zoombies

    Flex from 1st: Rise of the Zoombies

    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    Patrick Gallen, Partner, People and Change Consulting, Grant Thorton. We are no longer working from home, rather living at work. Or, as a colleague recently said, “The weekend now feels lik...
    • 1 Jul 2021
  • CIPD Northern Ireland Conference highlights the role of people professionals in shaping the future of work

    CIPD Northern Ireland Conference highlights the role of people professionals in shaping the future of work

    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    By Lee Ann Panglea, Head of CIPD Scotland and Northern Ireland Throughout the course of the pandemic, organisations from across Northern Ireland have been forced to adapt at pace and implement changes in the way they operate whilst navigating uncert...
    • 28 May 2021
  • Scottish skills policy in a Northern Irish context

    Scottish skills policy in a Northern Irish context

    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser.   Getting skills policy right is crucial – not just for our post-COVID recovery, but for longer-term prospects in the face of rapidly changing economies. This is just as relevant in...
    • 30 Mar 2021
  • Contributing to the new Skills Strategy

    Contributing to the new Skills Strategy

    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser.  With CIPD members driving workplace skills development across many businesses, skills policy is one of our key areas of interest. The Northern Ireland Executive, and the Department of the Eco...
    • 1 Feb 2021
  • Wellbeing in the 'new normal'

    Wellbeing in the 'new normal'

    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    By Beth McMaw Considine, CIPD Northern Ireland Branch Chair. As we settle into autumn, with cooler temperatures, shorter days and increasing COVID-19 related restrictions, I’d like to share with you, our members, some reflections on “well...
    • 6 Oct 2020
  • Annual Leave – Furlough & Beyond

    Annual Leave – Furlough & Beyond

    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland
    By Louise McAloon, Partner, Worthingtons Solicitors. With over 200,00 employees placed on ‘furlough’ in Northern Ireland as a result of COVID-19 disruption and the availability of the Government’s CJRS furlough scheme over a 7 ...
    • 26 Jun 2020
  • CIPD Northern Ireland Conference: Focusing on the Future with People

    CIPD Northern Ireland Conference: Focusing on the Future with People

    John McGurk
    John McGurk
    Belfast’s ICC was the venue as 250 HR and learning professionals from Northern Ireland and beyond gathered for the inaugural CIPD Northern Ireland annual conference on Tuesday. Wellbeing, inclusion and the impact of technology were the core con...
    • 4 Dec 2018
  • Apprentice Blog: Week 2:  Don’t pitch yourself up to fail

    Apprentice Blog: Week 2: Don’t pitch yourself up to fail

    John McGurk
    John McGurk
    The second task in what Lord Sugar ominously calls “the process” was about designing a comic. The grizzled entrepreneur spots opportunities few can see the need for, which is probably why he developed the email phone. But a tablet compati...
    • 15 Oct 2018
  • Meanwhile on the Apprentice. There really IS no I in team. Follow the leader

    Meanwhile on the Apprentice. There really IS no I in team. Follow the leader

    John McGurk
    John McGurk
    I am an avid watcher of the series for all its shortcomings. I will highlight the great stuff the contestants do when skilful as well as the epic skill fails, which they all demonstrate and which hold them back. I will call out my winner after week 3...
    • 11 Oct 2018
  • People Analytics and the Profession: HR leader event Belfast 6th September

    People Analytics and the Profession: HR leader event Belfast 6th September

    John McGurk
    John McGurk
    This week CIPD Scotland and Northern Ireland gathered practitioners in Northern Ireland to discuss the challenge and opportunity of people analytics. CIPD’s Head of Research and lead on human capital Ed Houghton, Jonathan Ferrar ex VP of People...
    • 7 Sep 2018
  • Let’s celebrate the people management excellence we are going to need now and for the future

    Let’s celebrate the people management excellence we are going to need now and for the future

    John McGurk
    John McGurk
    After the Stormont squabbling and the Ballyhoo over Brexit and the border, there is one constant in the future world we face. The issue is can Northern Ireland build the kind of future fit workplaces we need? Can we bring more people into the workpla...
    • 27 Mar 2017