The Government’s Business Champion for Older Workers, Andy Briggs, is calling on UK employers to publicly commit to employing 12% more older workers by 2022 and to publish their workforce data by age. UK charity Business in the Community, which will publish its data on its website, backs this call to action and has published guidance to support employers to publish this data. Viva, Atos, Barclays, The Co-operative Group, Home Instead Senior Care, the Financial Services Compensation Scheme (FSCS), Mercer, and Boots UK are the first employers... Continue reading

The average number of sick days is falling, but instead employees are coming to work unwell, being less productive and affecting the health of other employees. That’s according to Aviva’s latest Working Lives report, which reveals that UK employees are three times more likely to go to work unwell than ‘pull a sickie’. Seven in ten (69%) UK private sector employees – equivalent to 18 million nationally – have gone to work unwell when they should have taken the day off, the report shows. This is perhaps due to the fact that workers ... Continue reading

Dates for our next CIPD Certificate in HR Practice have been confirmed for our forthcoming courses. 13 September 2017 - London 4 October 2017 - Cambridge International Workplace is a leading centre for CIPD-accredited training, delivering the Certificate in HR Practice through a combination of classroom and online study, a blended approach that is consistently highly rated by students. Students can choose between the Certificate level qualification, or the Diploma, subject to the number of additional credits gained. The programme is ba... Continue reading

We are delighted to announce the dates for the latest addition to our NEBOSH-accredited course programme, the new Certificate in Health and Well-being. It now brings our total number of NEBOSH certificate level courses to five. The Certificate in Health and Well-being course takes place at our Executive Centre in London over five days from 18-22 September 2017. Designed to meet the need for a combined approach to health and safety and human resources, it will help you and your organisation to: Identify risks to health at work Learn how to ... Continue reading

The National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO) has issued updated guidance for security managers of crowded places, in the light of the recent change of the threat level in the UK to ‘critical’. While the level has since been reduced to ‘severe’, the guidance nevertheless provides a useful checklist for briefing personnel in some vital aspects of physical security.  The document contains useful guidance regarding security officers’ posture and activity. Proactive engagement and staff briefings. One of the most disruptive... Continue reading