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Rewards after Covid: Back to the future, moving towards fairness and justice
Forecasts and fears Daniel Defoe published his Journal of the Plague Year more than 300 years ago, a novel aiming to highlight the lessons learned...
May 2021
From Branch to Root – internal mentoring – a win-win for the trade union movement
As the practice of internal coaching and mentoring becomes increasingly popular across sectors, trade unions have an edge, with mentoring hard wired into the movement. ...
Apr 2021
A Just Transition?
It is hardly surprising that most commentary about the world of work over the past year has focused on the impact of the global pandemic....
Mar 2021
Employment Law Developments in 2020
Over the last 12 months employers have often had to make swift decisions to ensure the continuation of their business, with little time to take...
Feb 2021
Employee Burnout
Recent data by OC Tanner, a worldwide employee recognition company, has revealed that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused a large increase in employee burnout. According...
Feb 2021
Managing the return to workplaces
As we look ahead to a hopefully brighter 2021, thoughts are turning towards when things can ‘get back to normal’. While the winter months look...
Jan 2021
Psychological ownership – insights from health and social care
‘Building Back Better’ requires us to understand ‘ownership’ at work and its links to authentic participation COVID-19 has resulted in unprecedented levels of...
Dec 2020
A quarter of UK unaware of legislative obligations when making redundancies
People Management published an extraordinary article on 1 October which stated that a quarter of firms in the UK were unaware of redundancy consultation legalities....
Oct 2020
The Impact of Lockdown on Young People during the Covid-19 Outbreak
2020 has probably been the strangest year of so many people’s lives with the global Covid-19 pandemic, subsequent lockdown and quarantine forcing the majority of...
Oct 2020
Covid-19 and gender: back to the 1970’s, or forward to greater equality, ‘Paradise built in Hell’?
The Intent and Hope ‘Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,...
Oct 2020
How can ‘Build Back Better’ be more than just a slogan?
Build back better. It’s not a bad slogan. Certainly better than hands/face/and boomps-a-daisy (I may have got that one wrong but it is hard to...
Oct 2020
Webinar of IPA launch event: Towards a New Normal
Watch the webinar held to mark the launch of the IPA and FES report on the legacy of COVID-19 for working practices and employment relations....
Oct 2020
The Role of IPA in a post-COVID Economy. Reflections from a former Director 2
Writing in the last bulletin the IPA Director Nita Clarke posed a challenging question. “Post Covid what should be the IPA’s role in the emerging...
Sep 2020
Working Together in Uncertain Times – If I Was Still a Trade Union Representative
I spent the best part of my time at Legal and General between 1980 and 2000 as a trade union representative and was lucky enough...
Sep 2020
Does the IPA have a role Post Covid 19? Reflections from a former Director
When I handed over the IPA to Willy Coupar in 1998, the world of work was very different to what it was in 2019. We...
Jul 2020