According to the CIPD’s Employee Engagement Index1, more than half (55%) of employees in the voluntary sector feel engaged at work, compared with 41% last quarter, despite a backdrop of increasing redundancies (25% reporting planned redundancies ahead, a jump of 15 percentage points since last quarter). That’s compared with...

The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) is launching a new Legal Partners scheme to enhance the legal services on offer to REC members. In addition to the existing free legal services, new paid for services including employment tribunal support, document review and tender support, as well as other commercial,...

Set to boost electrification jobs but do we have the skilled labour to meet demand for the ‘biggest modernisation of our railways since the Victorian era’? We’re seeing increasing skills shortages in many disciplines across this sector. This can be attributed to the nature of the rail industry – large-scale,...

The spectre of local elections, a diminishing lead in the polls and a call to action from the former Labour PM Tony Blair, have seen Ed Miliband and team come under increasing pressure to set out what they would do should Labour win the general election in 2015. Miliband...

The majority of the interim management provider community wants to remain in Europe because they believe being part of the union is good for business. In a recent survey[1] conducted by The Interim Management Association (IMA), which represents the interim management provider industry, 79 per cent of respondents voted...