By Gerwyn Davies, Senior Labour Market Analyst The CIPD joined the Home Office’s primary employer forum on post-Brexit immigration policy and obtained an early preview of a vastly streamlined process for status applications from EU nationals. F...

By Gerwyn Davies, Senior Labour Market Analyst Former UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson once famously said that a week is a long time in politics. After a dramatic week of various twists and turns, Prime Minister Theresa May and Jean Claude Juncker, Pr...

For the past few months, the CIPD has been actively supporting the Royal Foundation’s Heads Together campaign which brings together The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry, in partnership with eight ...

By Sarah Jurado, Head of Brand & Communications, CIPD It’s an appalling fact that sexual harassment is a pervasive reality in our work places, an area that has garnered an avalanche of media headlines post-Weinstein. Those headlines have be...

By Ben Willmott, Head of Policy PR and Public Affairs, CIPD You can be forgiven if you failed to notice the launch of the latest version of the UK’s industrial strategy last week given it was somewhat overshadowed by coverage of Prince Harry&rs...

Today marks International Stress Awareness Day and newly-published HSE statistics show an estimated 0.5 million people were affected by stress in 2016/17. These statistics are important as they highlight why tackling work-related stress remains a pr...

By Katerina Rudiger, Chief Community Officer, Community Investment, CIPD 'So much of the narrative seems to be ‘oh I didn’t know that wasn’t normal’. HR should take a lead on setting clear expectations about what beha...

By Katerina Rudiger, Chief Community Officer, Community Investment, CIPD “(I feel) true disgust at the director who assaulted me when I was 16 years old and anger at the agents and producer who made me feel silence was a condition of my e...

By Gerwyn Davies, Labour Market Adviser, CIPD Having spent three periods studying and working in mainland Europe and having voted remain, it should come as no surprise to hear I was disappointed with the EU referendum result. However, despite my own ...

By Ian Brinkley, Chief Economist, CIPD The recent decision to revoke the licence of Uber in London by TfL has attracted both supporters and detractors, some influenced by wider questions and concerns about employment in the gig economy. The TfL decis...

The CIPD Manchester branch is inviting HR professionals, researchers and other interested organisations to contribute to a public policy ‘hackathon’, which is a joint problem-solving activity, on a range of issues relating to ‘famil...

By Bill Foster, a partner with immigration law firm, Fragomen. In this guest blog, Bill looks at whether Irish and UK nationals will be able to continue cross-border working There has been much discussion on what the status will be, post Brexit, of ...