Do your skills match your job role? 5 October 2018
Does your job role match your skills? The CIPD has published research which finds almost half of UK workers are in jobs they are either under- or over-skilled for, research published by the has today revealed.
Lizzie Crowley, skills advisor at the CIPD, said making sure employees’ skills were well-matched to their roles was vital for tackling the UK’s productivity crisis.
“Individuals who report using their skills fully in the workplace have higher levels of job satisfaction, earn more and are more resilient to change, while businesses benefit from a more productive workforce and increased profitability”.
The Over-skilled and Underused: Investigating the untapped potential of UK skills report found more than a third (37 per cent) of workers have skills which would enable them to cope with more demanding duties than their role requires.
Conversely, of the 3,700 UK employees surveyed one in 10 (12 per cent) reported they lacked some of the skills needed to carry out their job effectively.
The survey found being unable to use skills effectively at work is linked to poorer job satisfaction, lower earnings and worse career progression prospects. Just 53 per cent of over-skilled workers said they were satisfied with their jobs compared to 74 per cent of people whose skills were better suited to their role. Stephen Bevan, director of employment research and consultancy at the Institute for Employment Studies (IES), stressed the importance of recognising that employees want a role which is a good match for their current skills but has “a little ‘stretch’ included too”. The CIPD research also found a quarter (24 per cent) of workers had not received any training in the past year. Older workers, low-wage workers, part-time workers and those who are self-employed were most likely not to have received training. Over a quarter (26 per cent) of workers surveyed reported a lack of opportunities was the biggest barrier to their career progression.
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UK whistleblowers will face reduced rights compared to other EU citizens post Brexit 9 October 2018
The whistleblowing charity ‘Public Concern at Work’ has marked its 25-year anniversary with a new look and name.
“During its 25-year history we have supported more than 40,000 people. The first whistleblowing organisation in the UK, we been helping people raise concerns through our advice line since 1993 and played a key role in campaigning for the whistleblowing law in the UK, the Public Interest Disclosure Act (PIDA), said Protect Chief Executive Francesca West. “We aim to protect workers’ rights, organisations' reputations, and wider society, by encouraging safe and responsible whistleblowing. We believe that whistleblowing ultimately protects customers, beneficiaries, staff and the organisation itself."
Protect is an independent charity that offers free, confidential support for whistleblowers and also supports organisations with best practice whistleblowing arrangements.
Stronger new whistleblowing laws for EU EU rules announced in April of this year will require all organisations to have reporting channels for whistleblowers and to respond to whistleblowing issues raised in a timely manner. The EU move on introducing a whistleblowing Directive follows years of campaigning by Non-Governmental Organisations, trade unions and journalists and will see an end to fragmented gaps in whistleblowing protection across EU countries.
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