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Organisational diversity & inclusion strategies: reflections from a diversity & inclusion specialist
5 Jan 2023After a long career spent helping organisations achieve the goals set out in their diversity and inclusion strategies, IES Principal Associate Rob Barkworth turns his attention to questioning how and why the objectives they are aiming for, were chosen in the first place.
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Lessons for HR from the public sector pay disputes? ‘It’s good to talk’
19 Dec 2022Ahead of a week of continued industrial action across multiple sectors, Duncan Brown reflects on what these disputes teach us about reward and employment and what employers can learn from the UK's winter of discontent.
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December Labour Market Statistics: Comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
13 Dec 2022Today’s figures are broadly flat overall. Employment remains around three hundred thousand below where it was before the pandemic, while economic inactivity is more than half a million higher.
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Caught in a gap – the role of employers in enabling women to build better pensions
12 Dec 2022In light of recent IES research into the gender pensions gap, Abbie Winton, Claudia Plowden Roberts and Jade Talbot consider what action can be taken by employers, to support the future savings capacity of women across different life stages.
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How do your line managers treat your (potential) neurodivergent staff?
7 Dec 2022Alison Carter reflects on her experience of helping a young person with dyslexia and autism look for casual work and considers what employers can do to create an environment that is more inclusive and supportive of neurodiversity.
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Webinar & slides: Commission on the Future of Employment Support
2 Dec 2022This webinar introduces our new Commission on the Future of Employment Support, which is being hosted by IES with funding and support from abrdn Financial Fairness Trust.
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The potential role quality part-time work could play in reducing poverty and solving the inactivity crisis
1 Dec 2022Daniel Muir and Charlotte Edney highlight the potential business benefits of creating part-time, flexible jobs, and the impact these would have on the poverty rates and benefit claims of those able to find such work.
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It’s time to stop squeezing the ‘squeezed middle’, for everyone’s benefit
24 Nov 2022In this companion blog to her recently published HR Network paper, Zofia Bajorek looks at ways in which organisations can help support line manager wellbeing.
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Minimum wages: how much is enough? International learning on national minimum wages and protecting low-paid workers
17 Nov 2022Just as the UK is poised to announce the new minimum wage level in Thursday’s Autumn Statement, Duncan Brown considers what we can learn from several international comparisons.
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November Labour Market Statistics: Comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
15 Nov 2022There are now 630 thousand more people out of work than before the pandemic began and today’s figures show clearly that people aren’t becoming unemployed, they’re leaving the labour force altogether.