Strengthening Employment Relations

The Employment Rights Act presents a range of challenges and opportunities for employers as they navigate new responsibilities. Find out how IPA can help. Read more
A Guide to Establishing Staff Networks

This CIPD guidance, written by IPA, provides managers and employee representatives with advice on setting up employee networks, employee resource groups (ERGS) or other informal networks for employees with protected characteristics or similar needs and interests. Read more
Representing people working remotely

Employees working remotely or in hybrid work patterns presents important challenges for represents. Read more
ICE: what, why and how?

On behalf of CIPD, the IPA has produced a guidebook for practitioners on the Information and Consultation of Employees (ICE) regulations. Read more

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Strengthening Employment Relations

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Productivity starts with people: Why employee engagement matters more than ever

Performance and productivity sit at the heart of debates about the future of work in the UK. Yet despite sustained policy and business attention, the UK continues to face a long-standing productivity challenge. Perhaps it is now time to reframe the productivity debate and focus on its most important driver: people, writes Dr Sarah Pass, Senior Research Manager, CIPD and Engage for Success Advisory Board Member. Read more
Beyond rhetoric: what is really sustaining – or undermining – DEI in UK workplaces?

Diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) has not disappeared from organisational agendas, but it is under pressure. It feels more fragile, more contested, and harder to sustain than it did a few years ago. Dr Meenakshi Krishnan, Principal Research Fellow at IES reflects on what is driving inclusion and fairness in organisations right now? How are current labour market challenges strengthening or complicating the case for DEI? And what would make DEI feel like core business? Read more
What new sectoral bargaining could mean for pay and workforce stability

Naomi Cooke, Head of Workforce at the Local Government Association, reflects on what the introduction of a new model of sectoral bargaining could mean for local government employers and beyond. The Employment Rights Act represents a real sea-change. Two comparatively small provisions denote a significant shift in how pay, terms and conditions will be set, by establishing the first statutory collective pay bargaining mechanisms in England since wage councils were abolished in the 1990s. Read more
IPA Employee Voice Survey

Strong employee voice helps organisations make better decisions, manage change more effectively and build trust at work. To understand how this works in practice, we asked employee representatives, forum and staff council chairs, and others involved in voice arrangements to share their experiences via an online survey. Read more