Modernising Employment

Efforts to increase the use of digital hiring and take advantage of remote work options have failed to “significantly reduce” worklessness for disabled people, the APPG was told. A packed room in the Palace of Westminster received comments and urgings from experts including Kim Hoque of King’s Business School, Laura Davis of the British Association…

A Lancaster University researcher has lent his expertise to help set the agenda for the future use of Artificial Intelligence in hiring. Dr Huw Fearnall-Williams, a Lecturer in Organisation, Work and Technology in Lancaster University Management School (LUMS) helped in the creation of the UK’s first guide on the issue. Artificial Intelligence in Hiring has been…

A guide to preventing hiring fraud has been launched today [13 March] as the UK encounters “epidemic levels” of increasingly more organised and sophisticated fraud committed during the hiring process. Created and published by the Better Hiring Institute (BHI) and collaborators Reed Screening, UK fraud prevention service Cifas and S T Smith, the guide provides…

‘Reference houses’ that provide fake employment, education, bank and identity references for jobseekers are one of the latest types of hiring fraud occurring in the UK. Digital hiring and screening expert Keith Rosser has told parliament members and employers at a recent All-Party Parliamentary Committee (APPG) meeting that the growing sophistication of deception of these…

A new All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on modernising employment is to back up its commitment to promote the regions of the UK by taking its next meeting out of Westminster. Click here for the full article.

The APPG team hope the move will encourage business leaders across the country to join its discussions around providing meaningful support for the levelling up agenda by taking more jobs into the regions. Click here to read the full article.

A new All Party Parliamentary Group on modernising employment is to back up its commitment to promote the regions of the UK by taking its next meeting out of Westminster and bringing it to Hull. Click here to read the full article.

If the UK is to remain competitive in the post-pandemic world, we first have some issues to address in our labour market. A new all-party parliamentary group is seeking input from HR professionals to help tackle these challenges Click here to read the full article.

A new APPG (All Party-Parliamentary Group) has been created in Westminster with Parliamentarians, Peers, and industry experts striving to make the UK labour market the most attractive globally and resolve big strategic problems. Click here to read the full article

Hiring processes in the UK needed “emergency surgery”, Reed’s screening director has told a newly-launched All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) this week [10 July 2023]. Click here to read the full article.