Dan Cave

Clarify employment status or risk reform failure, says labour market tsar

The official tasked with overseeing labour exploitation in the UK has called on the government to clarify long-standing questions over workers’ status, if it wants the overhaul of employee rights to...

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How can HR be more inclusive to vegans?

Ecotricity, a UK-based green energy business, has made national headlines after it claimed to have opened the UK’s first fully plant-based workplace canteen.

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Move on up: Making internal mobility work

The economics of promoting from within make much more sense than recruiting externally, so why aren’t we doing it? Dan Cave investigates.

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Is the AI bubble about to burst?

While the HR hype around AI shows no sign of slowing, the volume of its critics is increasing. Dan Cave explores what HR really needs to know, and be mindful of, about AI.

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Flexible working: What does the law change mean for HR?

In early 2024, it might have seemed like all HR headlines were about the incoming Employment Relations (Flexible Working) Act 2023, which is better known as the flexible working law.

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The new path to high-level HR, Part 2

How can new HR practitioners get ahead? In this second part of our cover story for the March/April 2024 issue, Dan Cave examines how HR career paths are changing, amid increased expectations, the use...

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The new path to high-level HR, Part 1

How can new HR practitioners get ahead? Dan Cave examines how HR career paths are changing, amid increased expectations, the use of AI, burnout and economic uncertainty.

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How to tend to the needs of the long-term sick

With economic inactivity due to long-term sickness hitting record levels, HR has a critical role in improving health, wellbeing, talent and business outcomes, writes Dan Cave

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Cover story: Delivering the perfect reward package (Part 2)

The rules of reward have been ripped up over the last few crisis-hit years. Dan Cave finds out how HR leaders can reap the 'Covid dividend' to power a progressive reward strategy.

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Cover story: Delivering the perfect reward package

The rules of reward have been ripped up over the last few crisis-hit years. Dan Cave finds out how this chaos could drive a more equitable, productive future.

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Losing (and gaining) religion in the UK – adapting to changing needs

As the number of people of differing faiths, and no faith, co-existing in the workplace rises, DAN CAVE reports on how employers are updating their policies to be more inclusive.

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Bankruptcy at Birmingham City Council sparks warnings on equal pay

An effective bankruptcy at Birmingham City Council has sparked warnings about the value of equal pay in mitigating financial and legal risk and allowing employers to access vital skills.

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