By Gerwyn Davies, Senior Labour Market Adviser. Whilst the UK has been given a six-month extension to finalise its arrangements for exiting the European Union, the Brexit-related uncertainty that many businesses face remains. However, the extens...

The gender pay gap reporting deadline was midnight 4 April 2019. I stayed up late and crunched the numbers and this is what I found. 10,463 organisations submitted by the deadline which is approximately 99% of organisations[1]. This is an improvemen...

By Sheila Wild, author of the CIPD gender pay gap reporting guide The latest dates for filing the past year’s gender pay gap reports have come round again – 30 March for the public sector, and 4 April for private and voluntary sector orga...

By Gerwyn Davies, Senior Labour Market Adviser Amid the political uncertainty surrounding the Brexit process, it remains extremely likely that the government will push ahead with its plans for a new settlement scheme for EU citizens, as well as a new...

By Deborah Garlick, Director of Henpicked: Menopause in the Workplace The subject of menopause in the workplace is gathering traction and we’re delighted to see the Chartered Institute of Personal Development (CIPD) launch their comprehens...

By Claire McCartney, Diversity and Inclusion Adviser, CIPD International Women's Day is an annual opportunity to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The theme this year #BalanceforBetter: &...

By Gill White, Business and Market Development Director, CIPD I’ve been asked to write a blog for International Women’s Day in my capacity as a woman and as a senior woman at the CIPD. I reflected on why I would not have done it, had...

CIPD colleagues talk about their daughters’ views on work on International Women’s Day. ‘Over the half term holiday, I took my 10 -year old daughter to Bletchley Park. I was struck again by the critical role that women played during...

By Lizzie Crowley, Skills Policy Adviser at the CIPD National Careers Week (4–9 March) aims to underscore the importance of quality careers education in schools and colleges across the UK. Careers guidance is crucial for young people as transi...

By Sarah Corney, Head of Customer Experience, CIPD The CIPD has an interesting and inspiring history. Founded in 1913 as the Welfare Workers Association, it was originally set up to improve the working conditions of female workers in the UK...

By Jon Boys, Labour Market Economist, CIPD The quarterly CIPD Labour Market Outlook (LMO) provides a set of forward-looking labour market indicators, highlighting employers’ recruitment, redundancy and pay intentions for the first quarter of 20...

Written by Rachel Suff, Senior Policy Adviser In a groundbreaking project, the Cornwall and Isles of Scilly Local Enterprise Partnership (CIoSLEP) has secured £465,000 of Government funding to help local businesses recruit and retain people wit...

By Rachel Suff, Senior Policy Adviser The CIPD welcomes the Government’s consultation to strengthen the protection for pregnant women and new parents from redundancy. It’s shocking that research commissioned by the Department for Business...

Minister for Disabled People Sarah Newton discusses the launch of the new Disability Confident guide in collaboration with the CIPD, providing line managers with practical advice on employing disabled people…. November has been an important mo...

The recent work-related stress statistics published by HSE seem to have raised some eyebrows given the higher numbers of days lost to work related stress (57% of all days lost to ill health); but for those of us who have been involved in trying to ta...

By Gerwyn Davies, Senior Labour Market Analyst, CIPD The Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has produced a largely well-reasoned, evidence-based set of recommendations to government on how a post-Brexit immigration system could work. Many of those ar...

There has never been a better time for employers to lead from the front on mental health issues, says Business in the Community’s Louise Aston, on the publication of the third annual mental health at work survey in partnership with the CIPD. It...

By Claire McCartney, Diversity and Inclusion Advisor at the CIPD It’s National Work-Life Week and the CIPD wants organisations to reinvigorate their approaches to work-life balance and flexible working The concept of work-life balance is nothin...

There is no doubt that Ireland urgently needs to put in place a system to start to tackle the pensions time bomb that we face. Financing pension spending will fall to a diminishing share of the population as the ratio of people of working age to ever...

By Claire McCartney, Diversity and Inclusion Advisor at the CIPD. A Government-backed national survey, launched in July and released yesterday, shows a worrying level of negativity towards LGBT+ individuals at work. It represents the largest survey o...

Gerwyn Davies, Senior Labour Market Analyst It is refreshing to see a measure clarity and cause for optimism for employers and EU citizens from the latest Home Office policy announcements — particularly after the tragic Windrush debacle over th...

By Ian Brinkley, Chief Economist, CIPD The latest estimates around zero-hours contracts confirm how difficult it has been to measure the number of people on these or similar contracts, let alone how much that volume has grown in recent years. The rea...

By Helen Ablett, Public Relations Manager at the CIPD In the year that has marked 100 years of suffrage, women’s rights have rarely been out of the headlines. This feels like a pivotal moment for change and gender pay gap reporting has pr...

With one year to go until the UK officially leaves the European Union, the past week has arguably seen the most progress so far at the Brexit negotiation table. Additionally, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) has freshly published its interim fi...

By Mary Connaughton, Director, CIPD Ireland We know most organisations operate an equality and diversity policy. This helps drive legal compliance as well as promoting a safe and inclusive working environment, enhancing organisational performance. A...