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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.
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Creating system change: bringing services together to facilitate employment - lessons from the Advancement Network Prototypes
2 Nov 2022With a substantial mismatch between labour demand and supply, Becci Newton and Rosie Gloster reflect on previous IES research looking at Advancement Network Prototypes and consider how services across employment, skills and careers can better enable more people to find and progress in work.
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The cost-of-living crisis and 16-18 year-olds in jobs with apprenticeships
24 Oct 2022Becci Newton provides analysis of the latest data on 16-18 year old apprentices and provides recommendations to help boost apprenticeship completion rates and help young people secure better paid, long term employment.
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Remind me again, why are higher and cost-of-living-related pay increases a bad thing?
21 Oct 2022Duncan Brown looks at how different organisations are responding to the cost of living crisis and challenges the assertion that restricting wage growth is vital for ‘keeping a grip on inflation’.
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Reward strategy 2022: from profit and cost-focus to prosperity, proper pay and compassion
12 Oct 2022Duncan Brown argues that a stronger emphasis on delivering fair pay and employment, is the key to achieving sustained high performance and productivity in the fact of the cost of living crisis and rising inflation.
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October Labour Market Statistics: Comment from the Institute for Employment Studies
11 Oct 2022The last time unemployment was this low was Christmas 1973 and Slade had just reached Number 1.
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World Mental Health Day: identifying three priority areas for employer action
10 Oct 2022To mark World Mental Health Day, Stephen Bevan looks at how employers can help tackle the causes of work related mental ill health, setting out three priority areas for action.