Making a decision on your future career or choice of university degree at age 18 can be daunting for anyone. If you are female and/or from a lower social-economic or minority economic background, with parents whose expectations for your future life differ from yours, it is especially challenging. The tech sector has traditionally been male

By 2035, half of all adults in the UK will be over 50 years of age. Unless we actively support those in the older age group with training and healthcare to continue working, there will be significant challenges to our economy. An independent think tank, the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) believes: “The initiation of

Traditional employee engagement surveys aimed at Corporate Offices often don’t capture the meaningful feedback of property-based employees, nor allow property engagement leaders to quickly and effectively view and act upon their results. Red House International’s PulseHub platform combines: A hotel-focussed methodology – choose from our database of questions aimed at the employees who truly affect

A wake-up call is on its way for under-performing occupational pension schemes. The UK Pensions Regulator (TPR) is considering the future of trusteeship and governance. The same standard will be required of all schemes, whether large or small: the final schemes may be fewer, but better run. The days of the “symbolic” trustee are over

On 22 July 2019, the UK Government published its response to the “Good Work Plan: Pregnancy and Maternity Discrimination Consultation”, which took place earlier this year. The consultation looked at three main issues: whether redundancy protection should be extended into the period of “return to work”; whether similar protections should be given to other groups

Parental rights in the UK workplace: an opportunity for employers to give their views on potentially major changes to existing structures. The government has recently published a consultation paper “Good Work Plan: proposals to support families.” Some of the considerations are: How parental leave and pay should be structured between father and mother. What, if

Approximately half of UK employers have published an action plan to tackle problems in managing their Gender Pay Gap (GPG). If your company is not one of them, this issue will need to be addressed in the near future. In July, the Government Equalities Office published: A roadmap for change, which set out eight key