Blogging about the issues that matter to people professionals and the world of work
As the community turns 20, we asked Steve Bridger , Community Manager, and David D'Souza, Membership Director of the CIPD, about the significance of the discussion forum and what it means to those who’ve used it...
By 5 Apr, 2022 07:00
By Marek Zemanik, Senior Public Policy Adviser at the CIPD in Northern Ireland As the immediate concerns over the pandemic impact on the Northern Irish economy abated, new challenges reared their heads – be it labour and skills shortages ...
By 4 Apr, 2022 07:00
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 1 Apr, 2022 14:04
CIPD North held an exclusive Good Employment Summit for HR leaders, in collaboration with the Metro Mayors of Manchester, Liverpool and West Yorkshire, to explore ways to drive good employment standards and address regional inequalities.The online se...
By 1 Apr, 2022 09:07
With the start of Ramadan, many Muslims will be taking part in religious practices and fasting from sunrise to sunset each day for one lunar month, based on sighting of the moon (for 2022 most likely 2 April to 01 May). People professionals, HR pract...
By 29 Mar, 2022 23:01
Katie Jacobs, Senior Stakeholder Lead, CIPD Membership Department. News of the UK’s cost of living crisis has dominated the headlines since the Chancellor’s Spring Statement last week, with multiple stories of families having to cho...
By 28 Mar, 2022 15:29
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 24 Mar, 2022 02:08
Katie Jacobs, Senior Stakeholder Lead, CIPD. The coronavirus pandemic has often been referred to as leading to the world’s largest working from home experiment. During the first lockdown in the UK, almost half (47%) of all UK workers spent...
By 23 Mar, 2022 14:04
Voice on… Employment law, by HR-inform, provider of CIPD’s employment law helpline The sacking of over 800 staff last week by P&O Ferries, a subsidiary of Dubai-based DP World, caused a public outcry in the UK, and prompted man...
By 11 Mar, 2022 14:01
CIPD Voice On... the labour market, by Jon Boys, CIPD's Labour Market Economist. It’s been over two years since Covid-19 first graced the stage and, although now waning, the effects continue to reverberate - nowhere more so than in the...
By 8 Mar, 2022 14:51
Mona Abou Hana, Chief People Officer for EMEA and the Middle East, PwC Middle East. At PwC Middle East, we have a successful graduate programme in place that is now on its sixth intake. Each year, we bring in over 300 new graduates to giv...
By 1 Mar, 2022 12:24
Hasan Imam MCIPD, Head of Talent Development and Acquisition, Qatar Cool and Zulfikar Jiffry, Internal Communications Specialist, Qatar Cool. Our internship program is aimed at students who have studied in Qatar and international universit...
By 1 Mar, 2022 09:30
By Marek Zemanik – Senior Public Policy Adviser. My last blog , looking at some of the political and policy issues that are likely to dominate the NI Assembly election, was published exactly two days before Paul Givan resigned as First Min...
By 28 Feb, 2022 18:43
Mary Connaughton, Director, CIPD Ireland There was good news for employees earlier this year, with the announcement of an extra public holiday In Ireland on 18 March 2022, along with a new annual public holiday for Imbolc/St. Brigid’s Day...
By 22 Feb, 2022 11:50
Morgan Bestwick, Policy and Partnerships Officer (Work), Joseph Rowntree Foundation For too many people, jobs are not working. Work should offer a clear route out of poverty , yet the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF)’s most recent UK Poverty rep...
By 15 Feb, 2022 04:00
Gill Maxwell, Research Advisor, CIPD. Organisational responses to COVID-19 have sparked people professionals’ upskilling The COVID-19 context has dominated the world of work for the last two years, igniting widespread changes in workplaces...
By 7 Feb, 2022 09:29
Beth Wilson, Organisational Development Officer, Wirral Borough Council. At Wirral Borough Council, we strive to make a positive difference for all our residents and communities in Wirral, this is at the heart of what we do. Our employees lead t...
By 7 Feb, 2022 01:05
By Lutfur Ali, Senior Policy Advisor at the CIPD. Nusrat Ghani said that in February 2020, a government whip told her "Muslimness was raised as an issue" when she was removed from her Ministerial job. She was told that her “Muslimness was...
By 4 Feb, 2022 10:16
Gill Maxwell, Research Advisor, CIPD. Improvements in the employee experience underpin retentionIn 2022, the people profession is still very much in the organisational spotlight in managing ongoing changes to working practices. The CIPD has anal...
By 2 Feb, 2022 09:47
Mary Connaughton, Director, CIPD Ireland It’s a mark of changing times to read the government’s Transitional Protocol: Good Practice Guidance for Continuing to Prevent the Spread of COVID-19 for workplaces published on 31 January 2022. Do...
By 1 Feb, 2022 18:30
Mary Connaughton, Director, CIPD Ireland. As we continue to cope with the unpredictable path of COVID-19, organisations and employees remain adaptable in their responses. A growing number of companies are holding off plans for office re-ope...
By 1 Feb, 2022 11:59
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...
By 1 Feb, 2022 11:57
By Marek Zemanik – Senior Public Policy Adviser. It has been a tumultuous five years in Northern Ireland. The first three of these were marked by the collapse of the Assembly amid disagreements over power-sharing and policy. Then, ...
By 1 Feb, 2022 11:52
Daphne Doody-Green, Head of CIPD Northern England. CIPD Student Members invited to join for free I’m delighted to be chairing this year’s online CIPD Student Conference on Saturday 2 April, which CIPD Student Members are invited...
By 1 Feb, 2022 10:16
Lutfur Ali, Senior Policy Advisor, CIPD. Equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) are increasingly becoming a top priority for organisations. Whatever the stimulus or motivation there is now a growing recognition that EDI is not just simply the r...
By 28 Jan, 2022 09:32
Lutfur Ali, Senior Policy Advisor, CIPD. By looking at my seven-year-old you may not be able to tell, but his brain functions very differently. If you were to meet him, you’d probably notice that beyond his ‘normal’ looks he do...
