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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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&...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

By Charles Cotton, Senior Reward AdviserFor employers, what are the advantages of segmenting the benefits that they offer to employees or segmenting the workforce when it comes to communicating the benefit package? Can such an approach help an organi...