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This year’s CIPD L&D Show was the last in its current form. At the start of the annual event, held in London’s Olympia, the institute announced that next year the L&D Show will form part of a new event, the Festival of Work, which will run on 12-13 June 2019. The new event will incorporate…

April may be a quieter month than it used to be, now that the Chancellor no longer delivers a spring budget, but HR still has to contend with changes in employment law. And there are quite a few changes this spring, with the most prominent one being the first gender pay gap reporting deadline. That’s…

The new HR Support Level 3 Apprenticeship standard is now available from DPG. Created in conjunction with training providers Interserve Learning & Employment, the new standard is designed to develop your own HR skills or that of your team. This apprenticeship is aimed at anyone who is either starting out, or at the early stages…

Organisational design is big news now. Deloitte’s Global Human Capital Trends 2016 report demonstrated just how big it has become: it was the number one priority for organisations that year, with 92% of the 7,000 plus survey respondents saying it was very important or important to them. The importance of organisational design (OD) was reflected…

Most UK employees greatly overestimate how much they would get paid and for how long if they were to fall sick for more than a few days. New research by Direct Line Life Insurance found that just 4% of UK workers know how much statutory sick pay they are entitled to, should they need to…

There has been a huge increase in the numbers of people working from home in recent years. According to research by the TUC, nearly a quarter of a million (241,000) more people worked from home in 2016 than in the previous decade, which was an increase of 19%. This increase includes people who work almost…

Receive a complimentary iPad* to aid your studies or £200 off your fees when you book on any full CIPD programme with DPG! Ending 28th February 2018 Which programme is right for you? CIPD Foundation Level 3 in Human Resource Practice CIPD Foundation Level 3 in Learning & Development CIPD Intermediate Level 5 in Human…