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Building the business case for employee financial wellbeing

IES Perspectives on HR 2018

Rickard C | Aug 2018 | Institute for Employment Studies

This paper considers how organisations can build the business case for employee financial wellbeing and offers practical guidance to HR and senior leaders in this area.
Response to consultation on measures to increase transparency in the UK labour market

Submission from the Institute for Employment Studies, May 2018

Jun 2018 | Institute for Employment Studies

This paper contains our response to the government's consultation on measures to increase transparency in the labour market, which sought views on the recommendations in Matthew Taylor's Review of Modern Working Practices.
Helping employers support their working carers

Findings and recommendations

May 2018 | Simply Health/The Work Foundation

This report published by Simply Health and the Work Foundation is the result of discussions held at a policy workshop held in 2017. IES' senior research fellow, Sally Wilson, fed in to the workshop, which considered the experiences of working carers and how employers and policymakers could offer support to this section of the UK labour market.
Rapid evidence assessment: parents' decisions about returning to work and child caring responsibilities

Research review

Newton B, Tamkin P, Gloster R, Cox A, Everett C, Cotton J | May 2018 | Department for Education

On behalf of the Government Equalities Office, IES conducted a rapid evidence assessment in 2017 of parents' decisions on returning to work. This report contains the findings of the REA, published by the Department for Education.
Slides: Managing across generations: The leadership challenge

Scholefield M | May 2018 | Cullen Scholefield

Maureen Scholefield's slides from IES HR Directors' Retreat 2018, 'Managing across the generations', May 2018.
Slides: Intergenerational workplaces: Embracing diversity and inclusion

Maskell S | May 2018 | Royal Air Force

Sarah Maskell's slides from IES HR Directors' Retreat 2018, 'Managing across the generations', May 2018.
Slides: Good work for all ages: the case for action to support older workers

Thomson P | May 2018 | Centre for Ageing Better

Patrick Thomson's slides from IES HR Directors' Retreat 2018, 'Managing across the generations', May 2018.
Slides: The intergenerational impact of state and private pensions

Curry C | May 2018 | Pensions Policy Institute

Chris Curry's slides from IES' HR Directors' Retreat 2018, 'Managing across the generations', May 2018.
Improving health and employment outcomes through joint working

Bevan S | Feb 2018 | Public Policy Institute for Wales

This report analyses how economic inactivity, which remains high in Wales despite currently low unemployment levels, can be addressed. The report explores how employers, health services and employment services in Wales can work together more effectively to produce better health and work outcomes.
Fairness, flexibility and affordability

What are the lessons from pay and reward approaches and trends in the UK?

Brown D | Feb 2018 | Institute for Employment Studies

With many UK workers experiencing real wage cuts and in a rapidly tightening labour market, this research paper, authored by IES' head of HR consultancy, Duncan Brown, analyses trends in UK pay and rewards over the past thirty years.