The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) have published the report ‘Opening up talent for business success: integrating talent management and diversity’.
This report explores the extent to which employers are integrating talent management, and what can be learnt from those that do. It is aimed at talent management and diversity professionals and all those [...]

The UK has one of the highest rates of "hidden joblessness" in Europe, the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has revealed.
According to an article in CIPD publication People Management, analysis of official Eurostat data has revealed the UK counts for one in seven of Europe’s total hidden jobless population.
In the third quarter of [...]

Diversity should be threaded through all talent management activities and strategies so organisations can reap the benefits of accessing and developing talent from the widest possible pool. This is the main finding of a new Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) research report, Opening Up Talent for Business Success: Integrating Talent Management and Diversity, [...]

The UK’s leading business groups have formed a unique coalition promoting an internet petition that calls for the 1% employer National Insurance Contributions increase – planned for April 2011 – to be scrapped.
The petition, found in full at the dedicated website www.no-nics-rise.co.uk, says:
“We, the undersigned, call upon the Government to reverse the 1 percentage-point employer [...]

A European Parliament committee has passed a draft legislation which would extend maternity leave to 20 weeks on full pay.
In the current European legislation, women are given 14 weeks of maternity leave on full pay, but the UK legislation requires employers to give up to a year off, with 90% of full pay for the [...]

As the UK emerges from the recession, there have been suggestions businesses may take time to recover, however, a recent survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) paints a brighter picture.
The poll revealed that there was general optimism about the economy for the year ahead, with expectations of growth.
Indeed, the majority of [...]

The findings from this year’s annual Reward Survey from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), launched this week at the annual Reward Conference, reveal an optimistic outlook for the economy and expectations of growth in 2010. Results from the survey of almost 800 reward professionals show that the majority of respondents anticipate spending [...]

In an effort to do its bit to help the UK recover from recession and help reduce unemployment levels, supermarket chain Asda has announced it is to create 6,000 new jobs this year.
Furthermore, full time store and depot workers are to receive up to £437.50 in bonuses, after one million more customers used the stores [...]

Part-time employment may have the benefit of temporarily saving jobs and easing the full impact of the recession, it has been claimed.
John Philpott, chief economic advisor for the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, said part-time employment may not be the worse choice for Britons but was likely to be seen as a more preferable [...]

The Government today welcomed the fall in ILO unemployment and youth unemployment, but said the overall figures also showed continued support was needed to secure the recovery. Ministers warned that further rises in unemployment were expected before the summer, and announced more help to get people back to work.
New figures published by the ONS show [...]