Background information

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has created a 'Coronavirus Hub', which pulls together all its advice and guidance (including a series of webinars), ongoing policy recommendations made by the organisation and a summary of all its lobbying/campaigning activity since the beginning of the UK lockdown. The information is publicly available to all as the Hub is to be found on the CBI website.

Content of measure

The Hub is publicly available to everyone (although targeted at all businesses) on the CBI's website. The Hub is essentially a collation of everything that businesses need to know about COVID-19, including advice, guidance, and the steps that businesses can and need to take. It provides daily updates ('Everything you need to know today)'; links to previous webinars; facilities for future webinar registration; an overview of the CBI's political engagements/campaigning/lobbying activity focused on the coronavirus outbreak; a facility for businesses to comment and 'get involved'; links to a number of factsheets; links to case studies of how other businesses have responded.

Amounts spent on creating resources are unspecified.

Use of measure

Uptake unknown; no publicly-available evaluation data provided on number of visits/site usage.

Target groups

Workers	Businesses	Citizens
Applies to all workers	Applies to all businesses	Does not apply to citizens

Actors and funding

Actors	Funding
Employers' organisations	Employers organisation

Social partners

Social partners' role in designing the measure and form of involvement:

	Trade unions	Employers' organisations
Role	No involvement	Agreed (outcome) incl. social partner initiative
Form	Not applicable	Any other form of consultation, institutionalised (as stable working groups or committees) or informal

Social partners' role in the implementation, monitoring and assessment phase:

• Only employers' organisations
• Main level of involvement: Unknown

Involvement

The initiative has been designed and implemented by the CBI. It is a 'hub' which collates and presents all the advice and guidance provided by the body since the beginning of the UK lockdown. The CBI does survey member companies and requests input from businesses about their experiences.

However, the Hub and its content have been compiled by the CBI on a unilateral basis, as opposed to this being a jointly produced social partner initiative.

Views and reactions

It can be assumed that the measure would be generally supported as it provides advice and guidance on regulation, good practice, support for business and in turn, information for businesses on how they can support their workforces.

Sources

• 14 September 2020: CBI (2020) Coronavirus Hub (www.cbi.org.uk)