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followers this month
Yes 79%
No 21%
Could your organisation do more to
support working dads?
Employees and government want more support f for working fathers
admin platforms to paper in a
filing cabinet. Wherever your
pension scheme data is held,
pensions dashboards will happen
and every pension scheme, fund
and provider will have to make
their data available.
As much of a challenge as this
may be for some, I fully support
it. From an HR perspective
pension provision is a key part
of a rewards package and
anything that facilitates
employees’ understanding and
appreciation of pensions can only
be a good thing.
Hilary Chapman
Labour proposes
Ministry for Employment
Rights, 11 September
Labour announced a
number of proposals to
reform workers’ rights at the
TUC Congress, including
banning zero-hours contracts
and increasing the power of
trade unions.
Another of Corbyn’s ongoing
‘initiatives’ to reintroduce the
good old days of the 1970s
(when everyone had extra days
off because of strikes, three-day
weeks, rubbish piling up on
street corners, management
being prevented from managing
on a commercially-sensible
basis, etc.) and keep his
confidante/mentor/political
and ideological soulmate Len
McCluskey happy.
Jeremy Mansell
Working dads miss
out on family life,
13 September
With a government
consultation on parental leave
reform underway, research
reveals that current entitlements
cause working fathers to suffer
emotionally and mentally after
the birth of a child.
My husband had to give up a job
he loved and was good at because
his employer would not allow
him any flexibility in his shifts,
even though his colleagues were
happy to cover. It shouldn’t be
like this.
Jane Hamilton
How AI will liberate
organisations,
16 September
Artifi cial intelligence
(AI) liberates employees
from dry technical tasks and
gives them the freedom to
devote themselves to what
they were intended to be:
human capital.
All fairly sensible comments on
AI, but please! I’m a strong
believer in the concept of human
capital, but I would never dream
of devoting myself to being
human capital. Human capital is
the value an organisation can get
from its people; it’s not the people
themselves. I’m happy if an
organisation can generate human
capital from my skills, but it’s not
my aim in life.
Jon Ingham
hrmagazine.co.uk October 2019 HR 15
All photographs: AdobeStock
Could your organisation reduce
bias by changing how it
recruits graduates?
Do you think
generational
differences in
the workplace
are overstated?
Yes 71%
No 29%
Yes 71%
No 29%
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