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World Childless Week: Supporting Colleagues

2024-09-16T14:52:18Z

As part of World Childless Week, running from 16 to 22 September, Claire McCartney, CIPD Policy and Practice Manager, invited Shelleena Biddle to share her experience to help raise awareness of the childless not by choice community. Ple...(read more)

Everyone back to the office - what can we learn from Manchester United’s approach?

2024-06-03T10:29:17Z

Ben Willmott, CIPD’s Head of Policy, and employment law helpline provider CIPD HR-inform, look at the questions this has raised around risk and legislation. Manchester United hit the headlines last week with its push to get all staff bac...(read more)

Assessing Labour’s plan to strengthen workers’ rights

2024-03-12T14:01:41Z

Ben Willmott, Head of Public Policy, considers the Labour Party’s proposals to introduce ‘day one’ employment rights. As we look ahead to a general election, one of the big issues coming into sharper focus for employers i...(read more)

International Women's Day 2024 - Celebrating women in the workplace

2024-03-04T13:26:57Z

The CIPD’s Claire McCartney, Senior Policy Adviser, invites the UK Minister for Employment to highlight government initiatives to help women in work thrive. The CIPD has been working with UK Government departments and our members to sup...(read more)

Laying the ground for the UK General Election

2023-12-13T13:46:10Z

Peter Flack Lamb recaps the latest developments in UK politics and what they mean for CIPD engagement as we head into the next General Election In September, the CIPD published its proposals for improving work in the CIPD Manifesto for Good Work...(read more)

We have to challenge head-on the belief that men are better suited than women to top jobs

2023-12-04T14:22:31Z

Claire McCartney, Senior Policy Adviser, Resourcing and Inclusion Earlier this week, I was asked to respond to new survey findings, commissioned by the Young Women’s Trust and reported in the Guardian, that found that a significant minori...(read more)

Fewer UK employers are worried about the cost-of-living crisis

2023-11-10T10:46:51Z

Charles Cotton, Senior Policy Advisor on performance and reward, explores cost-of-living concerns for UK employers in light of Talk Money Week 2023. Comparing the results from the CIPD’s Autumn 2023 Labour Market Outlook which publishes on Mond...(read more)

Work is becoming less central to our lives

2023-10-13T15:57:38Z

Jonny Gifford, interim Head of Research at the CIPD, explores changing attitudes towards work in the UK A new study by King’s College London has found that nearly one fifth of British people say work is not important in their life. This p...(read more)

Onwards and upwards to build menopause-friendly workplaces

2023-10-06T15:19:47Z

‘Let’s talk menopause’ has been the CIPD’s clarion call to organisations since we launched our workplace resources and Manifesto for Menopause at Work in 2019. Since then, we’ve seen real momentum build to create menopau...(read more)

Stepping up support for 50+ workers: New employer tools and guidance

2023-09-19T16:20:21Z

Claire McCartney, Senior Resourcing and Inclusion Adviser at the CIPD, reflects on the launch of an age-inclusive recruitment toolkit by the Centre for Ageing Better in collaboration with CIPD and REC. The newly-released recruitment tools provi...(read more)

Commission reveals findings on hybrid working in new report

2023-09-14T12:12:30Z

The UK’s Hybrid Work Commission, with input from the CIPD, has launched its report with recommendations to UK Government on how to get the most from hybrid working A growing body of research shows that the right hybrid and remo...(read more)

Are young people less loyal to their employers?

2023-07-14T15:04:46Z

Jon Boys, Senior Labour Market Economist at the CIPD, analyses the loyalty of young people to their employers and explores whether they’re less loyal than other age groups Young people are reported to job hop more, but is this disloyalty ...(read more)

Why young people are working from home less

2023-07-07T10:05:37Z

Jon Boys, Senior Labour Market Economist at the CIPD, analyses working from home trends by age to find out if young people in the UK are working from home less  Age matters when it comes to working from home trends and reporting on them. And a key p...(read more)

Could offering summer hours suit your business?

2023-06-05T09:51:36Z

Jon Boys, Senior Labour Market Economist at the CIPD, analyses seasonal variations in working hours and discusses flexible working practices that can benefit both the employer and the employee In 2022, PwC grabbed headlines by offering staff summer h...(read more)

Hiring people with convictions: Five key strategies to consider

2023-05-30T14:16:28Z

The CIPD Trust is delighted to partner with Offploy and St Giles Trust to deliver a pilot project that supports people with convictions to succeed in work, using the expertise of the Trust’s experienced HR mentors. Offploy’s founder...(read more)