Last week, the Scottish Government’s 2024-25 Budget Bill passed its final Parliamentary vote. Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser at the CIPD, outlines some of the key decisions that impact the people profession. Headlines Nearly &pound...

…do you see people of different colour, culture, appearance, family status and socio-economic background, asks Enoch Adeyemi?   The CIPD in Scotland invited the founder of Black Professionals Scotland, and a speaker at the 2023 CIPD Scotl...

Emma Mamo of Scotland’s national mental health charity SAMH, highlights the need for people professionals to care for themselves.  Most roles have an element of pressure, such as targets or deadlines, but stress is when we feel that what i...

Marek Zemanik, CIPD’s senior public policy adviser for Scotland, shares tips on how to get the best out of apprentices.  Work-based learning, and apprenticeships in particular, benefit employers and young people in many ways. Organisations...

CIPD Scotland invited Stephen Pearson, chair of Financial Inclusion for Scotland, to share some good examples of organisations supporting employees through the cost-of-living crisis.  Evidence shows that financial worries can have a detrimental ...

By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser at the CIPD in Scotland  The last few decades have seen significant transitions in Scottish and UK labour markets. One of the most notable changes has been the exponential rise in the number and sha...

By Nikki Slowey, co-founder and director of Flexibility Works It’s never been so crucial to have the right people with the right skills and experience in your teams. Yet many employers are facing recruitment crises with some roles persistently...

By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser at the CIPD in Scotland Nearly a year ago, the eyes of the world were on Glasgow as it hosted the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26). One year on, governments across the world are slowly starting to t...

Public speaking trainer Gavin Brown offers tips for presenting to people working in multiple locations. Fifty-five percent of employees want to work from home at least some of the time. This was one of the headline statistics from the recent CIPD Wo...

Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser at the CIPD in Scotland. For the third year in a row, our Working Lives Scotland report further enhances our understanding of fair work in Scotland. Last year’s report revealed remarkable consist...

The pandemic has hit young people the hardest in terms of unemployment and economic inactivity, with UK youth employment rates at a near-record low. The CIPD’s One Million Chances campaign aims to create a million opportunities for young people...

By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser at the CIPD in Scotland  Last month, the Scottish Government published its new 10-year economic strategy - Scotland's National Strategy for Economic Transformation. Scotland is certainly not sho...

By Lee Ann Panglea, Head of the CIPD in Scotland and Northern Ireland   Introduction  Scotland’s population – and workforce – is ageing. While about 400,000 more people live in Scotland today than in the 1990s, the number ...

By Sabina Siebert and Kevin Orr The 20th anniversary of the Scottish Parliament offered an excellent opportunity to take stock of the work of Parliament and its wider impact, but also to consider Parliament as an organisation and workplace. As busin...

This blog was written jointly by Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser at the CIPD in Scotland, and Paul Traynor, Head of External Affairs at Carers Trust Scotland  25 November 2021 marks the annual Carers Rights Day. Its purpose is to hel...

National Stress Awareness Day provides an opportunity to increase public awareness and help people recognise, manage and reduce stress in their personal and professional lives.  This blog has been written by Olivia Carson, Public Affairs Officer...

By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser The impact of the pandemic on nearly all aspects of our personal and working lives will be felt for years to come. In the world of work, both employees and employers had to quickly learn to navigate new...

Carl Greenwood, Senior Development Officer, Paths for All. Keeping physically active in-and-around the working day has lots of benefits for both employees and employers. Staff who are physically active are more productive, take fewer sick days, and a...

By Olivia Taylor Last September, when I was going into my third year studying at the University of Strathclyde (BA Hons Human Resource Management and Psychology), I, like every student, was beginning to think about summer internships for the followi...

By Anne Wexelstein - Career Ready, Director for Scotland I am excited.  Thanks to an introduction from John Stewart, SSE HRD, I am in the position to be writing this blog to CIPD members and as a CIPD member myself.  Truth be told, it...

The Fair Work Convention and CIPD Scotland last month joined together to form a strategic partnership, working to ensure fair work drives success, wellbeing and prosperity for individuals, businesses, organisations and society across Scotland. Fair W...

By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser The first Working Lives Scotland report was released three months after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. While it was already apparent that we were experiencing an unprecedented event, one ye...

By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser By the time you read this blog, it will only be a few hours until the polls open across Scotland for the 2021 Scottish Parliament election. The sixth session of Parliament with 129 new (and returni...

By Sandy Begbie CBE, CEO at Scottish Financial Enterprise and author of Young Person's Guarantee report I was delighted to have the opportunity to join you in the plenary discussion at the recent CIPD Scotland conference. I left reassured by the lev...

By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser. Could the tide be turning on upskilling and reskilling policy? With additional funding announced in the Scottish Budget for the National Transition Training Fund (aimed at adults at risk of redund...