Help the country provide ‘good work’, HR urged

HR professionals must step up to the challenge of providing “good work”, giving unemployed people a chance and equipping their people to cope with a rapidly changing working environment, delegates at the CIPD’s conference in Manchester heard.In the closing keynote session, employment minister Chris Grayling called on the HR audience to get behind the government’s ‘Work Programme’ unveiled this week, which will see private and voluntary sector providers working with employers to offer opportunities for the long-term unemployed.