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#thoughtleadership - Difference/ scrutiny? This am Skynewsuk.com interrogated a Reform party member as tget do all political guests. With Welfare costs an obvious political target given amounts involved... should we be concerned over approaches & #strategy employed? Sunak confirmed on "Tge battle for No10" sky production... that youngsters will be compelled to work free for 12 weekends a year or... be sanctioned! Today the Reform candidate mentioned brmrfirsvwould be withdrawn if claimants dont accept two job offers🙈 • Hoe would these individuals survive without welfare? Surely everyone has a right to choose their career path. 🚩Isn't this approach illustrative of state deficirncies to make sectors and roles attractive? ⚠️ If most vacancies are within the zero hour contract, state portfolio... shouldn't that be addressed? • Press ganging creates issues as individuals have no interest in roles. Perhaps this needs looking at again! We need to stop wraponiding and sanctioning the most vulnerable.• #hr #humanresources #recruitment #business #strategy #riskmanagement #ceos #leadership all need to be on board and supportive of the initiative and want to employ these individuals without prejudice etc. Absent that the problem persists in a different form. ⚠️If organisations dont want to employ these individuals.. you get the current colloquy! ©️JC #besafe #personaldevelopment European Leadership European Commission #journalism #europeanunion #europeanparliament Skynewsuk.com The Guardian #travel #health #nhs #tourism #hospitality https://lnkd.in/eXj9HWiK

Is Rachel Reeves plan to GROW our dependency on the state? Small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the largest employers in the UK, collectively providing jobs for 16.7 million people as of 2023.  By taxing this sector an additional 25 billion, three things will happen: -Businesses would be forced to raise prices. -Companies would either stop creating jobs or reduce their workforce. -Some businesses would have to close down. Now i'm no economist, but its seems inevitable that: -Higher prices would lower demand and drive inflation. -Job losses would reduce both employers' and employees' National Insurance contributions to the government. - Business closures would increase unemployment. The end result would be a greater strain on the welfare system. This approach seems nonsensical—unless the Labour Party’s ultimate goal is to make the UK entirely dependent on the state?!

In our latest blog, Emelia Williams examines the continued responsibility of policymakers and employers to support workers struggling to make ends meet. 📌What are policymakers and employers doing about the cost of living crisis? 📌What are employers doing to support workers? 📌How can employers support employees with the cost of living? 🔗 Read here: https://lnkd.in/e-fRYhNf

🐾 Big Changes Ahead for HR in the UK! 🐾 Following the recent autumn budget! 🚀 Chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered a historic budget aiming for "economic stability" and "enhanced investment." But what does this mean for HR? National Insurance Contributions (NICs) for employers will rise to 15% by April 2025, potentially leading to hiring freezes or layoffs, especially in retail and hospitality. 😔 With the National Living Wage increasing, small businesses might face financial pressure. On a brighter note, the "Get Britain Working" initiative aims to help more people enter and stay in employment. 🌟 Additional funding for childcare and supported employment programs could improve workplace inclusivity and diversity. What are your thoughts on these changes and how they might impact your organisations? Are you planning adjustments? Let's discuss in the comments! Also, please visit henlee.co.uk to see how we can support your HR needs. #HR #Recruitment #Budget2024 #UKBusiness #HRjobsBristol #HRjobsSwindon

Unintended Consequences. If there's two words we all need to use more it's these. How often do we as a society look back on decisions made and hold our leaders accountable? Or even at a minimum use our knowledge to make better decisions moving forward. In 2010, as part of a major programme of welfare-system reform, the coalition government launched the ‘Work Programme’. "Through a ground-breaking ‘payment-by-results’ model, providers would receive the bulk of their payments only when successful in supporting a client back into sustainable employment." Fast forward a decade and we see the below. Coincidence? Or unintended consequence? https://lnkd.in/ePpFp5ns

🐾 Big Changes Ahead for HR in the UK! 🐾 Following the recent autumn budget! 🚀 Chancellor Rachel Reeves has delivered a historic budget aiming for "economic stability" and "enhanced investment." But what does this mean for HR? National Insurance Contributions (NICs) for employers will rise to 15% by April 2025, potentially leading to hiring freezes or layoffs, especially in retail and hospitality. 😔 With the National Living Wage increasing, small businesses might face financial pressure. On a brighter note, the "Get Britain Working" initiative aims to help more people enter and stay in employment. 🌟 Additional funding for childcare and supported employment programs could improve workplace inclusivity and diversity. What are your thoughts on these changes and how they might impact your organisations? Are you planning adjustments? Let's discuss in the comments! Also, please visit henlee.co.uk to see how we can support your HR needs. #HR #Recruitment #Budget2024 #UKBusiness #HRjobsBristol #HRjobsSwindon

To help employers determine whether the coverage they offer will be affordable to employees without knowing their household income, the IRS issued regulations providing employers with three affordability “safe harbors” that ALEs can use to determine if their plan would be considered affordable for their full-time employees. Learn more about affordability determinations: https://lnkd.in/gAyCAtWf  

Announcing this year's State Budget, Treasurer Tim Pallas emphasized the need to "recalibrate" while maintaining investments in health, education, transport, and housing. As a result, the Victorian Government has made the decision to end the Sick Pay Guarantee program for casual and contract workers. The program, introduced in 2022 to provide paid sick and carer's leave, will no longer accept new claims after May 31, 2024. Workers currently enrolled will be eligible for sick and carer's pay until June 30, 2024. For businesses, this change means a shift in managing sick leave for casual and contract workers. Employers may need to revisit their policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the new regulations. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the impact of these changes on your business, please contact ER Insight. Our team of experts is here to provide guidance and support during this transition period. #StateBudget #VictorianGovernment #PaidSickLeave #HR #Employers #BusinessImpact #Compliance #PolicyChange

That the political right is attempting to pit public and private sector workers against each other should come as no surprise. We are, after all, seeing renewed energy and organizing in the labour movement and a positive shift in public perceptions of the value of unions. What the right fears most is private sector workers building power to demand better wages, pensions, sick days and other decent work standards that today many accept as perks of a bygone era. As the Right seek to till the soil for massive cuts public spending, they want to dampen the power that those in the care and service sectors became conscious of when they were deemed “essential”’during Covid. They want to make public sector workers the foil. This attempt to build resentment between workers is a familiar strategy but the timing of its advance matters. Something that is crystallizing right now (across and not only between generations) is the divide between labour and capital, particularly the gnawing gulf in wealth inequality. Nowhere is that gulf more present than in people’s experience of the housing crisis, as renters get squeezed and homeowners see their wealth balloon. The hysteria of the investor class over the capital gains tax gave us a glimpse of how these class divides are going to play out. It’s an important moment for the Left to put forward an economic program that identifies the worker-investor divide. One that goes beyond redistribution, focusing on an industrial strategy with greater worker and public ownership, the expansion of unionization perhaps through sectoral bargaining in low-wage and care sectors.

As the UK approaches the upcoming General Election, businesses find themselves at a crossroads. The economic outlook remains uncertain in the midst of disruption to supply chains, fluctuating demand and workforce availability. Operational viability will always be key for businesses but needs to be balanced with employee welfare and ensuring some level of stability for the future. Laying off employees and making use of short-time working arrangements are concepts that businesses were forced to adapt to in recent years in the wake of the pandemic. Ellie Hibberd, partner, in our Employment team looks at what these actually mean and how they might present potential solutions for you in the current landscape. 👇 https://lnkd.in/efseJGEf