How did other businesses step up?
Over the last few months, the CBI brought businesses together through our Redeploying People Working Group to help redeploy people. We have:
These are forums for peer-to-peer sharing and consider the key HR challenges and opportunities affecting UK business, including political and legal developments as well as workplace trends. Topics include diversity and inclusion, immigration, skills and current labour market trends.
We’re calling on government to ensure the current and future workforce has the right routes to access new skills - from education through to retraining - developed in conjunction with the real-world requirements of business.
Redeploying People was part of a wider initiative to bring businesses together to address the social and economic challenges presented by coronavirus. You may also read more about our mental health challenge - which helped businesses step up to support employees and their families - and our helping families in hardship challenge – which looked at supporting initiatives that help vulnerable groups.