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    Greater flexibility for over-50s will help UK swerve a ‘looming retirement crisis’

    by Adam McCulloch 16 Feb 2024
    by Adam McCulloch 16 Feb 2024

    The Flexible After Fifty report from a roundtable that includes the CIPD and the British Chamber of Commerce, calls for older people to be more active in the workforce, with flexibility the key.

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    Economic inactivity among older people remains ‘stubbornly high’

    by Adam McCulloch 7 Sep 2023
    by Adam McCulloch 7 Sep 2023

    The employment rate for 50 to 64-year-olds is not yet back to pre-pandemic (2019) levels.

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    STEM returners project receives government backing

    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Feb 2023
    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Feb 2023

    The government is to fund a STEM returners project, helping women and carers get back into the sector following a break.

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
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    Are returner programmes as inclusive as they could be?

    by Natalie Desty 30 Sep 2022
    by Natalie Desty 30 Sep 2022

    Returner programmes: Could companies favouring one demographic over another be damaging for inclusion?

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    Bias stopping STEM professionals returning after career break

    by Ashleigh Webber 23 Jun 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 23 Jun 2022

    Bias in STEM recruitment processes is preventing talented professionals from returning following a career break, research has found.

    • STEM
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    Government pilot urges job advert pay transparency

    by Ashleigh Webber 8 Mar 2022
    by Ashleigh Webber 8 Mar 2022

    Employers taking part in a government pilot will list salary details on job adverts and stop asking candidates about salary history, in a bid to tackle pay inequality.

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    Could returners solve the diversity problem in STEM?

    by Natalie Desty 15 Oct 2021
    by Natalie Desty 15 Oct 2021

    Unconscious bias during the recruitment process is a significant barrier preventing STEM returners from gaining employment.

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    NHS to focus on flexible working and staff wellbeing

    by Ashleigh Webber 30 Jul 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 30 Jul 2020

    Flexible working, education and health and wellbeing are at the forefront of the new NHS People Plan, which the government...

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    Met Police asks retired officers to return

    by Ashleigh Webber 27 Mar 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 27 Mar 2020

    The Metropolitan Police Service is calling on retired officers to return to duty and urging those nearing retirement to stay...

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    NHS invites retired doctors and nurses to return

    by Ashleigh Webber 20 Mar 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 20 Mar 2020

    Senior health officials have called on 65,000 retired NHS doctors and nurses to return to the profession to support the...

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    HRD Summit 2020: ‘Stop setting diversity targets’

    by Ashleigh Webber 5 Feb 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 5 Feb 2020

    HR professionals need to stop setting diversity targets and instead think about what cultural indicators they want to see across...

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    Roadmap encourages employers to tackle ‘lifetime’ gender inequality

    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Jul 2019
    by Ashleigh Webber 3 Jul 2019

    Action needs to be taken by individual organisations and at a sector-wide level to close the gender pay gap and...

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    Virgin Money strikes right balance for Diversity & Inclusion (Private Sector) Award win

    by Personnel Today 21 Nov 2018
    by Personnel Today 21 Nov 2018

    With its sixth Personnel Today Awards win in seven years, Virgin Money again wowed the judges; this time with its...

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    Gender pay gap: PwC bans male-only candidate shortlists

    by Adam McCulloch 4 Jun 2018
    by Adam McCulloch 4 Jun 2018

    Accountancy giant PwC will no longer allow shortlists of candidates for any jobs in the UK that consist only of...

    • Equality, diversity and inclusion
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    Part-time work in senior roles on the rise, according to Timewise

    by Jo Faragher 26 Feb 2018
    by Jo Faragher 26 Feb 2018

    A quarter of workers would rather work part time, for less money, if they knew it would have no impact...

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