Places at the Learning Technologies Awards Gala Dinner are selling fast, following the announcement of the shortlist for the 2017 finalists. The Awards are the most prestigious in the eLearning sector. International Workplace is shortlisted in the category of Best Online Distance Learning Programme, for our entry ‘Learning to be Safe: IOSH Managing Safely’. The shortlisting follows nine months of intensive development of both the course and the technical platform it sits on, to allow for easy integration with a client’s SCORM or TinCan b... Continue reading

A new initiative has been launched to support small businesses in improving work health to create a healthy economy. A healthy population is the engine of a healthy economy, said Public Health England’s (PHE) Chief Executive, speaking at the opening of PHE’s annual conference. Duncan Selbie said we must look further than the NHS if we are to ensure everyone has a fair chance of good health. Illness among working age people costs the UK economy £100bn a year. About 330,000 people every year become unemployed because of health-related iss... Continue reading

Business Minister Margot James has urged the UK’s largest companies to increase transparency about the diversity of their workforce following the first meeting of the new Business Diversity and Inclusion Group. The group was set up to coordinate action to increase diversity and inclusion in business and build on the work of a number of government-backed reviews led by senior business leaders into workplace diversity. The group will seek to establish what information listed companies could disclose to help tackle barriers in the workplace. E... Continue reading

A Government whitepaper setting out how Britain intends to approach immigration post-Brexit has been leaked to The Guardian and, as a result, has attracted concern and criticism from employers and industry associations. Detailed proposals set out in the Home Office document reveal that Britain will end the free movement of labour immediately after Brexit and, the newspaper states, introduce restrictions to deter all but highly-skilled EU workers and refocus policy to put British workers first. The document states: “To be considered valua... Continue reading

The second Finance Bill of 2017, which will make the tax system fairer by cracking down on avoidance and evasion, and will bring in vital tax revenue needed for public services, has been published by government. Measures introduced by the Bill include: new penalties for those who enable the use of tax avoidance schemes that are later defeated by HMRC; an update on the rules around company interest expenses, to ensure big businesses cannot use excessive interest payments to reduce the amount of tax they pay; and changes to prevent individu... Continue reading