News around the region
Levelling-up the North As part of our policy influencing work, we responded to the Government’s Levelling Up White
Sick pay for workers regardless of vaccination status Leading retailers based in the North such
Paper, which failed to address the long standing problems with the skills system. Read our full response here. If you would like to get involved in our policy influencing work, register your interest to join the CIPD Northern Policy Forum e: cipdnorth@cipd.co.uk
as Morrisons, Next and Ikea have cut their sick pay for unvaccinated staff that are forced to self-isolate because of Covid exposure. Rachel Suff, CIPD Senior Policy Advisor provided a comment to The HR World in response to this. She cautioned: Employers should follow their usual sick pay policy for any employee who needs to self-isolate due to COVID-19. Different policies depending on an employee’s vaccination status could be quite complex and come with potential legal risks. They could also be divisive for the workforce.
Celebrating the North’s top talent Our region has some of the brightest talent in the people profession, so champion your best work and get the recognition you and your team deserve by entering the 2022 CIPD People Management (PM) Awards by 1 April. Eight of the North’s people professionals and teams - from organisations such as The Co-op, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust and The Sovini Group - were recognised as winners at last year’s PM Awards. Read more here.
Collaborating to support HR Leaders in Public Services As part of the Northern Public Services Forum, we have joined forces with other professional HR bodies – PPMA, HMPA and UHR – to deliver some short webinars over the next six months. These sessions will provide insights into the world of work and cross-sector perspectives from leading speakers and facilitators. If you are a HR leader operating in public services in the North and would like to learn and network with your peers to support the HR Profession e: cipdnorth@cipd.co.uk
Making the case for ethnicity pay reporting CIPD Senior Policy Adviser, Charles Cotton gave evidence to the Women and Equalities Select Committee in a one-off session looking at ethnicity pay reporting. Charles echoed the CIPD’s call from September for it to be made mandatory from 2023 for businesses
of 250+ employees. He made the case that businesses should have to publish a narrative and action plan as well as the headline figures.
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