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Following the Chancellor’s commitment to provide new grants to businesses, the CIPD, the professional body for HR and people development, is urging the Government to extend the furlough scheme to the end of June.

Employee benefits can be an incredibly effective recruitment tool but all too often they are only communicated by employers during the onboarding process after an offer has been accepted, according to research* conducted by GRiD, the industry body for the group risk sector.

Responding to the announcement of tougher restrictions Neil Carberry, Chief Executive of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation, said:

Since Boris Johnson’s announcement on Monday, the UK has been put into a national lockdown starting today.

Even as the year was closing - when the trend is for jobs and applications to drop significantly - both jobs and applications registered some of the best values of 2020, at 27% above the January-March average and +64% respectively.

UK employers can’t force their employees to take the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available, XpertHR warns as it launches new HR resources on vaccinations for staff - but they should inform their workforce about the vaccination programme and encourage them to be vaccinated.

Responding to the announcement that the UK and the EU have reached a Brexit deal, Neil Carberry, Chief Executive of the REC, said:

With Brexit fast approaching, businesses are being urged to prepare. Regardless of whether there is no deal with the EU, preparation should include considering the steps needed to address terms related to the transfer of personal data between the UK and EU organisations. Data transfer will be impacted by the Brexit split as we will no longer be part of the European Economic Area (EEA).

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Formerly known as the 'COVID-19 Student Response Network', CSRN was founded in the wake of lockdown to bring together talented students from all over the UK with social impact organisations impacted by COVID-19.

According to the latest data from the UK’s leading independent job board, CV-Library, job vacancies across the UK dropped by 25.3% in December.

2020 was the year HR professionals had to react to the unexpected, but now it’s time for them to plan for the known 2021 challenges, according to XpertHR

In July the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that the US privacy shield, which had previously allowed data transfers of personal data from the EU to the US in respect of businesses who were signed up to it, did not provide sufficient safeguards for the protection of EU citizens personal data. What does this ruling mean for businesses who need to transfer personal data?

Employers became more confident in their ability to hire new staff over the past month, despite the onset of more Covid-19 restrictions and growing concern over a no-deal Brexit.

Research into employee perceptions around the pandemic reveals senior staff expressed higher levels of work-related stress, but glimmers of optimism peek through