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ePolitix consultations

Here you can find a record of all the contributions that CIPD has made to the epolitix forum

If you would like any further information about any of the issues raised, please do not hesitate to get in touch

 


Employment services  

28 February 2008 
"The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) welcomes government incentives, to encourage voluntary and private firms to offer employment to long-term job seekers."

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'Well note' plans

21 February 2008 
"Too many GPs are letting down patients signed off work with health problems by not communicating effectively with employers."

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Gender pay gap

12 February 2008 
Charles Cotton, reward and employment conditions adviser, said: "The CIPD welcomes the call by the business and enterprise committee to close the equal pay gap between women and men.

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Flexible working hours

03 April 2007
CIPD told ePolitix: "The government's existing flexible working laws have been warmly welcomed by employees."

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Budget 2007: Employment and skills

22 March 2007
John Philpott, chief economist at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, said: "Brown’s final budget has proved both his least predictable and cleverest
."

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Minimum Wage

8 March 2007
ePolitix.com Stakeholders comment on news that the minimum wage is to rise 17p to £5.52.

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Welfare reform

05 March 2007
"David Freud is right. We need more personalised one-to-one help for the core jobless while at the same time putting more pressure on them to make use of that help".

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Flexible working hours

12 February 2007
ePolitix.com Stakeholders comment on the children's minister call for more flexible working hours.

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Workplace conflict

31 January 2007
Ben Willmott, CIPD employee relations adviser and author of the report, said: "The statutory dispute resolution procedures have led to a formalisation in how conflict is managed because employers are afraid of falling foul of the law."

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Pre-budget report: stakeholder response

6 December 2006

Dr John Philpott, chief economist at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, said "Gordon Brown's 10th pre-Budget report as chancellor aims to equip the UK to cope with global competition and the threat of climate change."

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Immigration quotas

25 October 2006
ePolitix.com stakeholders respond to the proposals from home secretary John Reid to place restrictions on Romanians and Bulgarians wanting to come to the UK to work.

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Disability employment

16 October 2006
Dianah Worman, CIPD diversity adviser, says: "There is a clear business case for recruiting a diverse workforce which includes opening doors to disabled people, such as reflecting a broader customer base, improving products and services to meet more diverse needs and improvements in the recruitment and retention of talent.

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Working hours

21 August 2006
Commenting on the findings, Gerwyn Davies, author of the 'Calling time on working time?' report, said: "This research chimes with our own survey of more than 750 organisations which shows that long hours workers are opposed to the removal of the opt-out and in particular any moves to restrict their freedom to choose to work long hours.

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Pensions white paper

25 May 2006
Charles Cotton, CIPD pensions adviser, said: "People are becomingly increasingly savvy about the package of rewards available to them from different employers.

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Job satisfaction

17 May 2006
The new report from Amicus reaches similar conclusions to recent CIPD research, which focused on poor UK productivity and the policy measures needed to tackle the problem.

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Age discrimination

24 October 2005
A spokesman for the CIPD said: "Our research found that discrimination was not always against older workers.

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Paternity leave

19 October 2005
Rebecca Clake, organisation and resourcing advisor at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, said: "The government's new proposals for working fathers pose three key questions.

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Paternity leave

11 October 2005
Rebecca Clake, resourcing adviser at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, said: "We would have expected the rate of paternity pay to be one of the factors in the decision to take paternity leave.

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Working time directive

12 May 2005
Ben Wilmott, Employee Relations Adviser comments: "While we don't discount the problems that long hours working can create, we believe that this is the wrong way to address the issue.

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