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...

In May 2018, the Government launched a consultation that proposes changes to who is responsible for determining the IR35 status of engagements. There are three proposals, but the preferred approach is to transfer from the contractor to the priva...

By Charles Cotton, CIPD Public Policy Advsier Look at most research on reward and the focus is on pay. Such topics as executive remuneration, merit pay or sales-based incentives predominate. Similarly, a lot of public policy attention is given to su...

By Charles Cotton, Public Policy Advisor at the CIPD.  The CIPD’s 2018 UK working lives gives us some interesting insights into employees’ satisfaction with their pay. Given that the survey only finds that only 45% of workers think t...

The deadline for firms with more than 250 employees to publish the average pay gap between male and female workers has now passed, and it’s been a year full of lessons. While some organisations struggled with the calculations, and many left rep...

By Sheila Wild, founder of www.equalpayportal.co.uk and author of the CIPD guide to Gender Pay Gap Reporting With the reporting deadline fast approaching, over 1,600 organisations have so far published their gender pay gap reports.&nbs...

By Charles Cotton, Senior adviser for performance and reward, CIPD The survey commissioned by the CIPD to help inform the report Addressing the barriers to BAME employee career progression to the top, also asked some questions about whether workers f...

Professor Stephen J. Perkins (co-author, CIPD annual reward management survey) It is common to refer to ‘reward systems’ and, reflecting on our findings in the CIPD 2017 reward management survey, clarity to inform understanding of this t...

Professor Stephen J. Perkins (co-author, CIPD annual reward management survey) How can we begin to interpret findings from the 2017 CIPD reward management survey around fairness and transparency? Theory-informed commentary helps us by referring to i...

By Charles Cotton, CIPD Senior Adviser for Performance and Reward The 13th of November marks the start of Financial Capability Week, the purpose of which is to celebrate, showcase and amplify existing financial capability initiatives and ultimately ...

By Sheila Wild, founder of www.equalpayportal.co.uk and author of the CIPD Guide to Gender Pay Gap Reporting Six months in to the process of gender pay gap reporting, what can we say? Not a lot. Of the several thousand or so organisations required t...

By Katherine Chapman, Director, Living Wage Foundation.Since the snap election was announced there has been much talk about minimum wages and living wages. It is great to see such a focus on low pay ─ at a time when over half of people in poverty are...

By Sheila Wild, founder of www.equalpayportal.co.uk and author of the CIPD guide to Gender Pay Gap ReportingWith only a handful of employers having yet published their gender pay gap figures, is it possible to draw any conclusions about how gender pa...

By Charles Cotton, CIPD Performance and Reward Adviser In my last blog, I looked at whether there was a relationship between whether people felt optimistic or pessimistic about the future in light of Brexit and whether they had a pay rise in 2016. ...

Charles Cotton, CIPD Performance and Reward adviser Despite economic growth in 2016, only slightly more employees got a wage increase in 2016 (53%) than did in 2015 (51%), according to the CIPD’s latest Employee Outlook focus on pay and pensio...

Angela Bell, The Pensions Regulator Every three years certain members of staff must be put back into an automatic enrolment pension scheme. This is called ‘re-enrolment’ An employer’s duties will vary depending on whether they have...