What the EU Referendum result means for HR...

What will happen to CIPD qualifications and courses where students want to have EU employment law covered? How will CIPD qualifications and courses (with employment law elements) retain their currency, standing and relevance at a European level?

Hi Paul, Thanks for your question. The CIPD will work to ensure that our qualifications and courses continue to meet the needs of the HR and L&D profession – no matter what the context, and no matter what the future may hold. At present there are still many unknowns, including the specific implications for employment law in the UK and EU. We will continue to work closely with local tutors to contextualise employment law, and help build professional judgement to apply the law in practice. As the full implications of the vote become clearer we will be working with our members and wider communities to understand what support or changes may be needed, and we will keep you updated.

Ruth Stuart,
Strategic Projects, People & Strategy, CIPD

Don't in any way wish to stir the pot containing this particular dog's dinner any more than it already has been agitated, but paste below an email I found quite poignant and touching from a former colleague based in what used to be East Germany.

He is clearly greatly saddened as well as bewildered / incredulous. We collaborated for many years with immense success to provide UK apprentices with opportunities to train alongside their counterparts in Germany and to experience how they went about vocational training there and of course vice versa. As a spinoff they all benefited greatly from being immersed in life inside a different country and culture and so did we.

Just a very tiny aspect of the ramifications of all this, but to me at least a very sad and retrograde and indeed potentially dangerous one as regards future peace harmony and prosperity, especially for our nation's young people

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Hello David,
I couldnt belive it, I am completely dismaied about
the news from UK. I can understand
people are confused about some
decision from the EU but it is not a
reason to cut the line to our common culture
in the EU. The concequences are too heavy.
Young people have seen
their future in the common market.
I hope, it is time to work on the structure
from the EU and it is a wake up call
for all western coutries to change a lot.
Hope UK suffers not too much.
Bye bye Training Bridge
Best wishes
Peter

Don't in any way wish to stir the pot containing this particular dog's dinner any more than it already has been agitated, but paste below an email I found quite poignant and touching from a former colleague based in what used to be East Germany.

He is clearly greatly saddened as well as bewildered / incredulous. We collaborated for many years with immense success to provide UK apprentices with opportunities to train alongside their counterparts in Germany and to experience how they went about vocational training there and of course vice versa. As a spinoff they all benefited greatly from being immersed in life inside a different country and culture and so did we.

Just a very tiny aspect of the ramifications of all this, but to me at least a very sad and retrograde and indeed potentially dangerous one as regards future peace harmony and prosperity, especially for our nation's young people

********************

Hello David,
I couldnt belive it, I am completely dismaied about
the news from UK. I can understand
people are confused about some
decision from the EU but it is not a
reason to cut the line to our common culture
in the EU. The concequences are too heavy.
Young people have seen
their future in the common market.
I hope, it is time to work on the structure
from the EU and it is a wake up call
for all western coutries to change a lot.
Hope UK suffers not too much.
Bye bye Training Bridge
Best wishes
Peter

I think what you have posted here underlines what I think risks being lost through the referendum result, beyond the economic - that of the qualititve experience of working in another country, of enjoying the common ground we have culturally with other countries, and learning from the differences. This is experience that surely enhances the professional profile of anyone working within a diverse and muticultural workforce, wherever that may be.

I have lived and worked in Germany and in Spain. From my experience there I would venture that, with the result of this referendum, the UK runs the risk of being even further behind other nations in having a workforce that is ready to embrace international trade and collaboration. Other nations are already busy promoting the idea that its workforce must not only be bilingual, but even trilingual - in fact speaking English is taken for granted. Cultrually speaking, UK students will no longer have access to the Erasmus programme.

It will fall to business to promote international collaboration - not only through trade, but through encouraging exchanges between their own staff and those working for their international peers, and probably also to provide the funding for it. I would not be confident in the UK government picking up where the EU left off in respect of Erasmus or other funding opportunities.