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This week I’m not sharing my ‘PAYING FOR GOOD’ podcast. Instead, I’m putting the spotlight on ‘The Which? Money Podcast’, which is full of financial tips useful at home and work. One of its [...]

In my last newsletter, I sent you a survey to get an update on the progress you’ve made on the integration of remuneration and sustainability. My questions covered the integration of ESG and: [...]

In the spring of 2017, I attended a conference for small businesses. Unbeknown to me at the time, it was going to change the course of my Reward career. As one of the speakers explained the [...]

Is sustainability at the core of your business strategy? If so, check out the UN Global Compact Network. Its UK branch helps about 12,000 companies and 3,000 non-business signatories to embed the [...]

When I was training with Toastmasters International to become a public speaker on Responsible Reward, one assignment we were given was ‘Speaking under fire’. The brief was to ‘dispel the [...]

Did you know that there are now over 4,000 signatories of the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Investments managing over $120 trillion? One expectation is that these signatories take ESG into [...]

(These wise words are usually credited to the acclaimed genius Albert Einstein.) Looking back at my long (and successful) Reward career, there were several times when I felt I was going round and [...]

BY CORINNE CARR No matter the economic or political climate, now is the right time to think about Responsible Reward. The fact is, there’s always a more ‘pressing’ HR issue to put out elsewhere. [...]

Despite legislation being put in place in 1970, there is still hard evidence that unequal pay remains a problem in the UK in 2020. So much so, that a major campaign, #MeTooPay, spearheaded by [...]

The #MeTooPay Movement – Stamping Out Unequal Pay For Good This Sunday, 8th March, people around the world will be celebrating International Women’s Day. One might wonder why, in today’s age, we [...]

As Responsible Reward is attracting more and more interest from both investors and corporates, articles and videos are being produced on the topic. I recently came across one which I felt was [...]

The privileged position of reward practitioners to be a force for good By Dawn Lewis “Responsible reward is a growing trend in executive pay which links organisations’ sustainability and [...]

By Dawn Cowie: BlackRock’s bid to become a leader in tackling climate change will put pressure on rivals but does not go far enough, campaigners say. In a letter to clients yesterday, BlackRock [...]

By Dawn Cowie: Asset managers face growing pressure to link employee bonuses to environmental, social and governance targets. Calls from institutional clients, regulators, investee companies and [...]

By Eva Szalay BNP Paribas employee subjected to ‘direct sex discrimination and victimisation’ When Stacey Macken arrived at work at the main London office of BNP Paribas one morning in 2013, she [...]