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Mental Health Awareness Week: how moving ‘fairness’ up the organisational agenda could reap wellbeing benefits
13 May 2024In support of Mental Health Awareness Week, Zofia Bajorek looks at the issue of fairness at work and calls for employers to review workplace policies and practices to ensure that positive employee wellbeing is supported and maintained.
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Gender pay gaps: continuity or change, progress or push-back?
8 May 2024Duncan 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.
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April Labour Market Statistics: comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
16 Apr 2024Today’s jobs figures are surprisingly poor, with a steep fall in employment and a sharp rise in those out of work, including an unexpected rise in unemployment.
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The occupations affected by the Budget
15 Apr 2024In a blog originally published in March on the Adzuna website, Daniel Muir looks at how the policies announced – and not announced – in the Spring Budget, will have an impact on various occupations across the UK.
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Pay equity and transparency: coming our way in the UK?
28 Mar 2024With 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'.
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Can job crafting help the terminally ill?
25 Mar 2024Stephen Bevan looks at how several methods of job crafting can provide ways to improve access to meaningful work for employees with a terminal illness.
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Why Bolsover could be the next Port Talbot
22 Mar 2024After Tata Steel closed in Port Talbot, Daniel Muir and Nick Litsardopoulos consider other local labour markets dominated by singular employers or industries that may also be vulnerable.
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Skills Bootcamps – we need to know more!
21 Mar 2024Joy Williams summarises recent IES research into Skills Bootcamps and how well they fit with occupational standards, including a call to action for employers who have used Skills Bootcamps to participate in further research.
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March Labour Market Statistics: comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
12 Mar 2024Today’s jobs figures show that the labour market remains pretty subdued. The employment rate is broadly flat but still about one percentage point below where it was before the pandemic, even though unemployment has fallen back to where it was.
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The surprising rebirth of strategic workforce planning
11 Mar 2024Duncan Brown takes an in-depth look at strategic workforce planning (SWP), specifically comparing the different approaches in the UK and France, and highlighting current challenges, possible ways forward and what the UK can learn from French strategies.