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By 18 Sep, 2017 14:48
The CIPD is pleased to support the new 'Wellbeing in Small Business' campaign, just launched by the Federation of Small Business (FSB). It includes a Wellbeing in Small Business hub where you can find useful information and practical adv...
By 7 Sep, 2017 14:49
Look at the photo. A man is standing with a placard outside the Apple Store in Glasgow advertising cheap iPhone repairs. This is without doubt a job. A person is paid to stand there with a placard. Maybe it works because people do maybe think &ldquo...
By 1 Sep, 2017 11:34
When the ‘Fit note’ replaced the ‘sick note’ in 2010, it was hoped that it would herald a new way for employers to manage sickness absence. Instead of the binary approach of being either fit or unfit for work, it introduced a ...
By 18 Aug, 2017 16:41
10 years on from the global financial crisis there has been a jobs rich recovery in U.K but not a recovery of rich jobs. I addressed this in my last blog post as the “recovery-less jobs” phenomenon in the context of Scotland. As two noted...
By 18 Aug, 2017 15:47
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 ...
By 15 Aug, 2017 11:21
Today the Equality and Human Rights Commission published a new strategy for tackling gender, ethnicity and disability pay gaps. Their recommendations on the changes needed to address pay gaps in Britain are timely for many businesses who are preparin...
By 7 Aug, 2017 09:17
For the past few months, the CIPD has been actively supporting the Royal Foundation’s Heads Together campaign with mental health charity Mind to end stigma around mental health. The campaign ‘aims to change the national conversation on me...
By 4 Aug, 2017 11:35
Scotland is, according to the respected economic think-tank The Fraser of Allander Institute (FAI), teetering on the verge of recession. A recession is defined by economists as two consecutive quarters of falling output and there is a perception that...
By 2 Aug, 2017 12:01
Last week was the first of parliament’s six-week recess (as a former parliamentary staffer I know that you’re not supposed to call it a holiday!) and a chance for MPs (and the general populus) to finally pause and take a breath. It’...
By 26 Jul, 2017 13:33
The Supreme Court has unanimously allowed Unison’s appeal that the UK’s fee system for individuals enforcing their employment rights via employment tribunals is unlawful. The CIPD welcomes this ruling and has consistently called for a ful...
By 20 Jul, 2017 10:27
By Louisa Baczor, CIPD Research Adviser The Matthew Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices highlights the importance of effective worker voice for creating good work. We believe that having a meaningful voice is critical to better experience and ...
By 14 Jul, 2017 17:23
Scotland's latest unemployment rate fell to its lowest ever, now standing at 20% lower than the rest of the UK. That said we still have a significant number of people who have given up searching for work all together. Some don't like the jobs...
By 10 Jul, 2017 12:15
I have been reading about an amazing yet largely unknown eighteenth century Scotswoman Mary Somerville. She was born in Burntisland and became one of the most celebrated scientific authors in history. Her outstanding contribution to knowledge in the ...
By 28 Jun, 2017 10:49
We’ve all had much more on our minds than politics recently. The election as we all know, turned out to be significant in Scotland and unprecedented in the UK. As usual at CIPD Scotland we look for what we can do to move forward and adjust. We ...
By 20 Jun, 2017 13:27
Is that a question asked in your organisation when someone is consistently working late? Or is being seen to work late a sign of commitment? Alternatively, is working late recognised as not ideal, but nothing gets done about it as it’s ‘u...
By 13 Jun, 2017 15:24
By Jonny Gifford, Organisational Behaviour Adviser Couples have had the right to shared parental leave for two years now. We can start to see some impact, with a decline in traditional patterns of employment and parenting, more fathers working less ...
By 12 Jun, 2017 10:22
It’s unlikely that any organisation in the UK will know exactly how many carers it has in its workforce. Some people don’t see themselves as carers despite having caring responsibilities, some people won’t want their employer to kno...
By 7 Jun, 2017 16:52
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 7 Jun, 2017 15:08
By Sarah Koppen CPD and Careers Lead First and foremost, remember that even though it is a requirement of CIPD membership, CPD is an investment that you make in yourself. Why do CPD? Maintaining your CPD is essential in order to stay up to date with ...
By 7 Jun, 2017 13:40
The political and economic events – including Brexit, national elections and terrorist attacks - currently taking place on a domestic and global scale pose a challenging environment for organisations and individuals. Even if someone is not dire...
By 6 Jun, 2017 11:56
By Sheila Wild, founder of www.equalpayportal.co.uk and author of the CIPD guide to Gender Pay Gap Reporting With 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 25 May, 2017 16:13
This week, Andy Briggs, the Government’s Business Champion for Older Workers, called on UK employers to commit to his previously announced target of one million more older workers into the labour market by 2022. Briggs has called on UK business...
By 17 May, 2017 11:45
Technology and HR continue to be uneasy bedfellows. It’s the world’s longest ‘will they, won’t they?’. A largely unfulfilled romance. A match made in heaven that everybody can see the opportunity for but that never quite...
By 15 May, 2017 10:40
Workplace stress is growing exponentially, with over 11 million days lost to anxiety last year in the UK, and consequent impacts on wellbeing and productivity…and this may be the tip of the iceberg when we also include presenteeism and unrepor...
By 12 May, 2017 16:01
By Nasser el Mokhtari and Nathan Ten Have We are fifteen-year-old students from KSG De Breul, in Zeist and we’ve spent a week with the Research Team at CIPD. Our work experience this week has been enjoyable and at times challenging. The Head o...