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  • A man sat at a laptop with a credit card in hand, paying for something

    CIPD research shows continued struggle with bills and other commitments

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    Charles Cotton, CIPD's Senior Policy Advisor on performance and reward.  Our latest CIPD Good Work Index survey finds a minor improvement in employees keeping up with bills and other commitments, but a sustained struggle overall.  The propo...
    • 15 Apr 2024
  • CIPD research shows year-to-year fall in keeping up with bills and other commitments

    CIPD research shows year-to-year fall in keeping up with bills and other commitments

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    Charles Cotton, CIPD's senior policy advisor on performance and reward. Against the backdrop of the UK’s worst cost-of-living crisis in decades, with the annual rate of CPI inflation increasing by 10.4% in February 2023, CIPD research finds tha...
    • 13 Apr 2023
  • Why employer cost-of-living help can fail universal credit claimants

    Why employer cost-of-living help can fail universal credit claimants

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    CIPD invited the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group’s Meredith McCammond to highlight the risks of some cost-of-living support to employees receiving universal credit. The cost-of-living crisis has prompted an explosion of suggestions for how employe...
    • 9 Nov 2022
  • Are you losing out through your pension communication?

    Are you losing out through your pension communication?

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    By Charles Cotton, CIPD’s Senior Advisor on Performance and Reward  A new campaign launches later this month in the UK, which gives HR teams an opportunity to review how they communicate about their workplace pensions. Building on the exis...
    • 23 Sep 2022
  • Why paying the Living Wage isn’t enough to boost employee financial wellbeing in a cost-of-living crisis

    Why paying the Living Wage isn’t enough to boost employee financial wellbeing in a cost-of-living crisis

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    The Living Wage Foundation has announced the new UK national and London hourly rates for the Living Wage: a voluntary rate providing an income that enables people to lead a dignified life and to meet the cost of living. This ...
    • 22 Sep 2022
  • For the lower paid, career progression is key to a prosperous future.

    For the lower paid, career progression is key to a prosperous future.

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    Sue Tunmore, People Director – The Co-op.  Around the UK, too many people are struggling to find the good work that will allow them to provide for themselves and their families. Worries about the rising cost of living loom large for house...
    • 6 Jun 2022
  • Paying the real Living Wage is the right thing to do, but the business benefits are clear too

    Paying the real Living Wage is the right thing to do, but the business benefits are clear too

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    By Charles Cotton, Senior Policy Adviser for Reward at the CIPD.  In the UK, it’s Living Wage Week (15-19 November), The Living Wage Foundation has announced the new rates for its voluntary ‘real Living Wage’ and is celebrating...
    • 15 Nov 2021
  • Will the energy crisis fuel interest in workplace financial wellbeing?

    Will the energy crisis fuel interest in workplace financial wellbeing?

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    By Charles Cotton, Senior Policy Advisor at the CIPD.  Just as we see started to see the end of the coronavirus pandemic, the UK’s great cost of living crisis starts to come into view – bringing with it a new source of stress and anx...
    • 15 Oct 2021
  • To make work a reliable route out of poverty, employers need to do more than offer a fair, secure and liveable income

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    Charles Cotton, Performance and Reward Adviser, CIPD. ‘…for increasing numbers of working families around the country, the promise of social mobility through “hard work” as a route out of poverty alone is failing to deli...
    • 8 Jul 2021
  • Employee financial wellbeing: whose role is it anyway?

    Employee financial wellbeing: whose role is it anyway?

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    Charles Cotton, Senior Policy Adviser, Performance and Reward As data reported in my previous blog posts and in the latest CIPD Reward Management survey show, indicators of in-work poverty have increased since the start of the pandemic. This should b...
    • 5 Mar 2021
  • If people are our most important asset, why aren’t more businesses measuring and rewarding their CEO’s commitment to workforce development?

    If people are our most important asset, why aren’t more businesses measuring and rewarding their CEO’s commitment to workforce development?

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    By Charles Cotton, Senior Policy Adviser – Performance and Reward. HR leaders know too well the struggle that can be involved in getting people matters elevated to the same level as financial ones during executive and board meeti...
    • 8 Dec 2020
  • We need to talk about money

    We need to talk about money

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    By Charles Cotton, Senior Reward Advisor at the CIPD. This week is Talk Money Week, an annual awareness-raising campaign, organised by the Money and Pension Services (MaPS), to get people talking about money.&n...
    • 9 Nov 2020
  • Workplace money matters: Ensuring the financial wellbeing of employees is more important now than ever

    Workplace money matters: Ensuring the financial wellbeing of employees is more important now than ever

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    By Charles Cotton, Senior Reward Advisor at the CIPD.What’s the problem?  A CIPD survey carried out in April 2020 of over 1,000 workers found 39% of them saying their financial security had worsened&...
    • 1 Jun 2020
  • Closing the gender pay gap: keep calm and carry on reporting

    Closing the gender pay gap: keep calm and carry on reporting

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    By Charles Cotton, Reward Adviser at the CIPD.The COVID-19 outbreak is putting employers, employees and HR departments under incredible and unprecedented pressure. In light of which, it’s not too surprising that&nb...
    • 26 Mar 2020
  • Time to finalise your gender pay gap narrative

    Time to finalise your gender pay gap narrative

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    By Charles Cotton, CIPD senior adviser for Reward and Performance.There are just two weeks to go before employers must disclose their gender pay gap data (31 March for the public sector and 4 April for the private sector). To date, while around ...
    • 16 Mar 2020
  • Closing the gender pay gap: how to compile an action plan

    Closing the gender pay gap: how to compile an action plan

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    By Jill Evans, Law Content Analyst at the CIPD.The TUC is calling on government to make action plans a compulsory part of gender pay gap reporting. Its latest analysis of ONS statistics shows that, since 2011, the gender...
    • 9 Mar 2020
  • The gender pay gap: what you must report and what it tells you about your business

    The gender pay gap: what you must report and what it tells you about your business

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    By Charles Cotton, CIPD senior adviser for Reward and Performance. There are just five weeks left to publish your gender pay gap data (the deadline is 30 March for public sector employers and 4 April for those in the private and voluntary sectors). I...
    • 24 Feb 2020
  • Who’s been asking for a pay rise?

    Who’s been asking for a pay rise?

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    Charles Cotton, CIPD senior adviser for reward and performance A CIPD survey of around 2,000 employees carried out last summer found 23% of them had asked their employer for a pay rise in the past few years. Further analysis found that men had been m...
    • 28 Jan 2020
  • New corporate reporting rules: will they help restore trust in business and make them a better place to work?

    New corporate reporting rules: will they help restore trust in business and make them a better place to work?

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    By Charles Cotton, Senior Adviser for Performance and Reward, CIPD CEO pay has been in the spotlight for some time now, but 2020 could be the year that businesses truly wake up to their responsibility to ensure that people&nb...
    • 21 Jan 2020
  • 2019 CIPD Reward Management Survey: Conclusions and implications for managerial practice

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    By Professor Emeritus Stephen J. Perkins, Global Policy Institute, London and London Metropolitan UniversityTo make sense of findings from the results in the CIPD 2019 Reward Management Survey report, a useful starting point is to ask how they eviden...
    • 3 Dec 2019
  • CEO pay ratios — Hot Across The World : What’s Next?

    CEO pay ratios — Hot Across The World : What’s Next?

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    By Iain Stark, International HR leader and reward expert What is the “fair” level of CEO pay?  Into this debate comes the CEO pay ratio, especially since the crisis in 2008.  While many consider this metric a flawed and sim...
    • 30 May 2019
  • What’s New in Gender Pay Equity? Companies in the Spotlight

    What’s New in Gender Pay Equity? Companies in the Spotlight

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    By Iain Stark, International HR leader and reward expert As employers in the UK start to publish their second annual gender pay results, what is new in the rest of the world? The relatively limited impact so far in the UK has received a lot of ...
    • 25 Mar 2019
  • ‘Our survey says’…

    ‘Our survey says’…

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    Here, Dipa Mistry Kandola shares her top three takeaways from CIPD and LCP’s joint reward research. Our joint research highlights more employers than expected don't promote their benefits or make them easily accessible to employee...
    • 21 Dec 2018
  • Theory and practice: How the theory of mutual gains helps explain some of the results from this year’s Reward Management Survey. By Professor Stephen J. Perkins

    Theory and practice: How the theory of mutual gains helps explain some of the results from this year’s Reward Management Survey. By Professor Stephen J. Perkins

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    The apparent decline in benefits revealed by the CIPD reward management survey (although with no accompanying overall cost reduction trend) is at odds with evidence cited in our analysis for the report that employees still consider them important. Th...
    • 20 Dec 2018
  • Benefits at Christmas time

    Benefits at Christmas time

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    By Charles Cotton, Senior Adviser for Performance and Reward, CIPD This year’s CIPD reward management survey in association with LCP looks at the issue of employee benefits. It finds that there are a number of perks associated with the Christma...
    • 7 Dec 2018
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