IES signs the Employer with Heart 2.0 charter
IES has signed The Smallest Things’ Employer with Heart charter, which enables the parents of premature babies to take extended parental leave.
IES response to Amber Rudd’s universal credit speech, 11 January 2019
Tony Wilson, director of the Institute for Employment Studies (IES), responds to Amber Rudd’s speech on universal credit, 11 January 2019.
Returning to work after having a child: how families make decisions
Reflections on IES research on behalf of the Department for Education considering how families make decisions on returning to work and childcare responsibilities.
A big juggle: what can employers and policymakers do to support working carers?
Sally Wilson offers insight on support for working carers, drawing on findings from IES' evaluation of the Carers in Employment project, on behalf of the Social Care Institute for Excellence.
How can working carers be supported effectively? A new IES evaluation
New IES evaluation report identifies what employers and policymakers can do to support carers to balance work and care. The report evaluates the success of the government-funded Carers in Employment (CiE) project.
New research: Organisations’ management of flexible working arrangements can contribute to gender pay gap
How organisations manage staff returning to work from parental leave can contribute to the gender pay gap, according to new IES research on behalf of Acas.
New IES reports highlight the importance of employee financial wellbeing support
IES has authored a series of three reports on behalf of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) examining the issue of employee financial wellbeing.
Supporting employees’ financial wellbeing, what can and should employers do?
In this HR Insight article, Catherine Rickard writes about recent IES work with the CIPD into employee financial wellbeing support.