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The publication of more details on pay transparency proposals in the UK and EU appears to have incurred diametrically opposed reactions from affected employers. Duncan Brown provides more detail and suggests employers need to continue to implement greater pay transparency and understanding.
In his latest blog, Principal Associate Dr Duncan Brown questions whether HR leaders need to ‘think slow’, review their crisis-driven ‘fast’ reactions and plan a clearer direction for their future workforce.
As we approach year-end, some twenty years after publishing his first book on taking ‘Reward Strategies: from intent to impact’, IES Associate Duncan Brown assesses the state of reward strategy and total rewards packages today, and what’s needed in the 2020s.
Duncan Brown considers the government's recently released gender pay gap data, now in it's sixth year of reporting and based on employers with 250 or more employees, comparing men and women’s average pay across each organisation.
With pay reform legislation continuing to spread across the US, Duncan Brown reflects on the latest US developments on pay equity and transparency and considers if the UK will benefit from the ripple effect of pay reform from 'across the pond'.
In the light of the Valentine's Day strike by Deliveroo and Uber Eats workers, Kate Alexander looks at the rapid rise in app-based employment and accompanying legislation (or lack of it) around pay and workers' rights for platform-based employees.
2024 pay awards are high on the employer agenda. But with a sense of continuing economic stagnation pay and reward specialist Duncan Brown considers three priority areas that HR should focus on in 2024.
In relation to our IES annual conference on fairness at work, Chair Dan Lucy considers the situation in which we find ourselves and why it is critical that we collectively find ways to shape a better and fairer future of work.
Ahead of his presentation at the IES Annual Conference, Duncan Brown considers the latest developments in pay transparency amidst recent legislative changes to address pay inequality.
Duncan Brown reflects on the challenges of setting appropriate pay levels in 2023 and urges employers to move away from low pay models and 'going rates' and instead consider a broader and more thoughtful, tailored approach to pay setting.
