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- International Workplace
- 29 January 2020
IWFM launches "Impact Awards 2020"
Entries are now open for the new-look IWFM Impact Awards 2020. The Industry awards are back for their 20th year, with five new categories, including a focus on wellbeing, positive climate action, collaboration and social value. The awards are...
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- International Workplace
- 29 January 2020
Sustainability strategies more successful when managers believe in them
New research from Cass Business School has found that business sustainability strategies can succeed alongside mainstream competitive strategies when managers believe in them. In Towards a Process Theory of Making Sustainability Strategies Legiti...
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- International Workplace
- 29 January 2020
Government offered help in designing new immigration system
The CIPD and some of the UK’s largest business organisations – including BCC, CBI, FSB, IOD, MakeUK and around 30 trade associations, from hoteliers to universities, employing millions of people – have signed a letter to Rt Hon P...
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- International Workplace
- 29 January 2020
Chancellor asked to think again on IR35 changes
The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and leaders from 14 of the UK's top recruitment firms have written to the Chancellor expressing concerns about the planned changes to IR35 rules. The letter calls for a delay of the legislation un...
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- International Workplace
- 23 January 2020
“Jack’s law” to introduce two weeks’ leave for bereaved parents
Parents who lose a child will receive two weeks' paid bereavement leave under new government rules that will come into force in April. Known as Jack's Law, in memory of Jack Herd, whose mother Lucy has campaigned for reform since he drowned aged ...
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- International Workplace
- 23 January 2020
Do your employees take a lunch break?
Everyone in the office has their own lunchtime routine. Whether it’s running errands, catching up on TV, hitting the gym or meeting up with friends, lunchtime is a time for taking a valuable break from the streams of meetings, reports, and c...