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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

‘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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

CIPD Voice On... the importance of flexible working for all and in particular what can be done to support flexibility in front-line roles. By Claire McCartney, Senior Policy Advisor - Resourcing and Inclusion, CIPD.  Flex for all You&r...

CIPD Voice On... findings of the Women Leaders Review by Claire McCartney, CIPD’s Senior Resourcing and Inclusion Adviser. In its second report, the government-backed FTSE Women Leaders Review found that FTSE 350 firms had reached the gender pa...

CIPD Voice On… by Jill Miller and Lutfur Ali, Senior Policy Advisors on EDI.  We know from research and experience that equality, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in the people profession needs improving. We have a vital role to play in hel...

CIPD Voice On... the impact of work on people professionals' mental and physical health, by Rebecca Peters, CIPD Research Adviser. It’s very telling that the 2022 word of the year reflected the chaos and upheaval that we’ve experienced si...

As the amount of Apprenticeship Levy funding spent on generic management apprenticeships reaches an estimated £2bn, Ben Willmott, head of public policy, and Lizzie Crowley, senior skills advisor consider their pros and cons.  New analysis ...

CIPD Voice On... the latest working from home trends, by James Cockett, the CIPD's labour market economist.  As the dust settles on the pandemic, working lives for many have been transformed. The biggest change for many is the increased prevalen...

CIPD Voice On... industrial and employee relations, by Rachel Suff, CIPD's senior policy advisor on employee relations Many organisations in the UK have faced extensive employment relations challenges recently. The cost-of-living crisis, falling rea...

*This post was written in January 2023, for the most up-to-date information on legislative changes under RUEL please see our member-support page https://www.cipd.org/uk/knowledge/employment-law/retained-eu-law-bill-employment-changes/CIPD Voice ...

CIPD Voice On…cost-of-living support, by Charles Cotton, CIPD's senior policy advisor on performance and reward.  Inflation in the UK is near boiling point, and so is the financial situation of workers in the UK. In a sign of things t...

CIPD Voice On... the labour market, by Jon Boys, CIPD's Labour Market Economist. Last month I talked to the Lords economic affairs committee for their ‘enquiry where have all the workers gone?’. This is a topic of particular inte...