Modernising Employment

AI’s often negative perception based on villainous intelligent technology in films and novels must be better managed to help public confidence. The All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on modernising employment was told this week that the negative feelings surrounding artificial intelligence must be dealt with to raise the public’s confidence in developing its role in the…

This was the warning to the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on digital hiring came from a technology specialist at a meeting on Tuesday [21 January 2025]. Estelle McCartney, chief growth officer for technology firm Arctic Shores, said recruitment processes need to be “futureproofed” as Generative AI usage has “gone mainstream”, with professional and more experienced…

According to Mary Towers, an employment rights policy officer at the Trades Union Congress (TUC), research into the uses of AI in the workplace is showing that using technology to recruit and manage workers, replacing the functions of a human manager, can negatively affect both the physical and mental health of workers. Speaking on Tuesday…

The CIPD, Better Hiring Institute (BHI), Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and Reed Screening have joined forces with parliamentarians and industry leaders to launch new guidance entitled Future of Management for our Future of Work. The guidance comes in response to the seismic shift in working practices following the Covid pandemic, with hybrid working becoming a cornerstone of…

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.