🚨 BREAKING; Sir Lindsay Hoyle has been re-elected as Commons Speaker by MPs and dragged to the chair

Responding to the King's Speech, CIPD's Ben Willmott said “Working in close partnership with employers and business bodies will be key to the government achieving its aims of boosting skills, employment and unlocking the UK’s economic potential.” ow.ly/Aykq50SEmZr

Are you interested in public policy across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland? Can you champion better work and working lives? Do you feel like shaping employment law or skills policy across GB and NI? Then come work with me! linkedin.com/jobs/view/3996…

The CIPD Chief Executive Peter Cheese CIPD was pleased to be able to attend this meeting today and highlight the importance of engaging HR who will be on the frontline of these changes. Ongoing consultation has been promised and we will engage on behalf of and with our profession.

Wow.

The start of The Labour Relations Agency - Northern Ireland & TimelyCareers campaign to showcase different forms of flexible working in the run-up to expected changes in employment rights following the current Economy NI’s ‘Good Jobs’ consultation exercise. We begin with the #4DayWeek.

UUEPC have released new research exploring the uptake of management training in #NorthernIreland SMEs and the impact of training on business performance outcomes. Available➡️ tinyurl.com/MLtraininginNI… 🧵⤵️

An interesting and useful weekend at #SNP2024 on behalf of CIPD. Good to hear Graeme Dey, Jenny Gilruth, Stephen Flynn MP, Alasdair Allan, Shona Robison MSP and John Swinney and many others talk about education policy, skills reform and public spending priorities.

The NISRA wellbeing dashboard is a fantastic resource. I'd recommend anyone interested in understanding what the stats say about life in NI spend some time clicking through this. datavis.nisra.gov.uk/executiveoffic…

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Huge thanks to Charles Cotton for his time and expert evidence he gave to the Northern Ireland Assembly Committee for Communities on behalf of The CIPD in Northern Ireland. This morning's session was the committee stage of The Pensions (Extension of Automatic Enrolment) Bill, which we support.

I looked at some of the hurricane comments on X over the last few days and, I must honestly admit, I did not realise how bad things were. It is utterly terrifying. "...divided not just by political beliefs but by whether they believe in a shared reality - or desire one at all."

Anyone still struggling to process why Trump won should read this. It was written in 2016, but it might have been written yesterday: cracked.com/blog/6-reasons…

Thanks to cancelled flights, frantic rebooking to and from different airports and truly atrocious weather, I was late and only managed to squeeze into the overflow room for Anas Sarwar's speech at #ScotLab25.

I had a real visceral reaction to the Oval Office spectacle last night. I am a product of the post-Cold War geopolitical order. To see it crumbling like this is filling me with utter dread. The US has chosen. Time for the rest of us to regroup and step up.

A new digital hub has launched to support Scotland’s employers to adopt fair work practices. It comes after Deputy First Minister @_kateforbes presented the Fair Work Employer of the Year award to Official QTS Group at the British Business Awards. ➡️mygov.scot/browse/busines…

Economy Minister Dr Caoimhe Archibald MLA has today launched plans for a major upgrade of employment law as part of her Good Jobs agenda ➡️Read more: economy-ni.gov.uk/news/minister-…

Big news for NI employers - the DfE announced its preferred way forward following the Good Jobs Bill consultation last year. It will take some time to digest, but crucially, the main Bill won't be introduced until 2026, with some provisions likely to appear sooner.

In its 6th year, The CIPD in Scotland's Working Lives Scotland report continues to provide significant and valuable insight into workers’ experiences of #fairwork as well as how workplaces in Scotland are progressing on their fair work journey 👉tinyurl.com/53xu3cvh