About this event
This will be an interactive session on fair pay updates, responsibilities & reward trends for people professionals, managers & students.
This will be an interactive session on fair pay updates, responsibilities and reward trends for people professionals, managers & students.
Join us as we explore the latest developments in reward and fair pay, and what they mean for today’s people professionals. We’ll examine the evolving fair pay landscape, discuss organisational responsibilities, and define what fair pay looks like in practice.
Designed for HR professionals, people managers, and students, this session offers valuable insights, peer networking opportunities, and the chance to learn from an experienced reward specialist.
We will also be having our annual meeting where we vote in our Committee Branch members, plus reflect on the past year of activities, consider the insights and learning gained, while taking a considered approach to our proposed plans for 2026/2027.
We look forward to seeing you!
Employment and reward strategies for 2026 and beyond: what’s ‘right’ and fair?
- Intro: Some UK labour market home-truths according to CEOs…. Or myths?
- Contemporary context - ‘big’ issues, employer responses
- Strategic reward priorities, for employers, and for employees
- Fairness in pay and employment: what is it, are people getting it?
- Transparency: good or worse?
- Young and old workers
- Conclusions: Very interesting… but what should I do now?
Timings
18:00–18.30 - Arrival, registration, networking and refreshments
18.30-19.00 - Annual meeting
19.00-20.15 – Presentation by our guest speaker
20.15-20.30 – Q&A
20.30 - Close
About the speaker
Dr Duncan Brown
Duncan is an independent reward researcher, adviser, and writer. He has spent most of his career with leading HR consultancies and employment research houses including Willis Towers Watson and Aon Hewitt. He was also deputy CEO and head of research and policy at the CIPD.
Duncan has been involved with many significant pay restructurings over the past 30 years including for BT and Novartis in the private sector, Agenda for Change in the NHS and JEGs in the Civil Service, and the United Nations and Council of Europe. He has advised government on pay setting methods for key groups including the judiciary, Armed Forces and doctors and dentists.
He is a well-known author and speaker on rewards, with publications including the best-selling Handbook of Reward Management Practice written with Michael Armstrong.
Duncan is currently a Principal Associate at IES, Visting Professor at the University of Greenwich and lectures on CIPD HR MSc programmes at a range of universities. He sits on the HR Management Board at the London School of Economics and advises a number of remuneration committees. His PhD was in reward strategy. Duncan is a Companion of the CIPD.
He has also written a journal with Bryant. P, Employee stockholding and ownership: Realising the benefits and avoiding the bear traps.’ Compensation and Benefits Review.
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Please note:
- Participants will receive a reminder email the day before, with a further reminder on the morning of the event.
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- If there is an external speaker, their views will be their own and may not necessarily reflect those of the CIPD.
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