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New evidence to support flexibility in frontline and site-based roles
17 Jul 2024Astrid Allen summarises the findings from a two-year action research programme to introduce flexibility into frontline roles and evaluate its impact, on both the individual and the organisation.
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Election manifestos 2024: the ‘ins’ and ‘outs’ of employment rights
28 Jun 2024Kate Alexander explores what party manifestos tell us about the current direction of travel around employment rights by identifying which policy levers are ‘in’ and which are ‘out’ in 2024.
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Let’s start talking: why we need to reboot the partnership agenda between government, unions and employers
25 Jun 2024With just over a week to go before the General Election, Nita Clarke OBE, the Director of the Involvement and Participation Association and Mike Clancy, General Secretary of Prospect trade union, consider the current state of industrial relations in the UK and look ahead to the much-needed reforms of the labour market that any new government will need to address.
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Working for the future: five priorities for reforming employment support in the next parliament
30 May 2024IES Director Tony Wilson sets out five priorities for a new approach to employment support, for whoever wins the next election: based on ambitious objectives, clear entitlements, empowering people, a reformed employment (and careers) service, and new ‘labour market partnerships’ to take this forward.
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We need more than a task force for ‘British jobs’: we need to rewire our approach to employment and skills
22 May 2024IES Director Tony Wilson considers the government's announcement of a new task force to address skills and labour shortages and calls for a reformed approach to employment services based on open access to support, a different approach to those out of work, coherent engagement and support for employers, and meaningful partnership and alignment across services.
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Gender stereotypes in the construction industry: breaking barriers to tackle skills shortages
15 May 2024The construction industry is facing skills shortages that are holding back growth. This research for the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) explores attitudes towards awareness of construction careers among potential entrants and those within the industry, and the differences between the two.
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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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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'.