All Employee Benefits articles in 2022 – Page 3
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Supplier article3 ways to care for your team’s mental wellbeing this holiday season (and yours too!)
Author: Jennifer Gendron - Global Chief Commercial Officer at Koa Health - Employee Mental Health and Wellbeing Solutions The holidays can feel unduly stressful, as if all of us are rushing so that we can relax. With end-of-year deadlines and other time-sensitive priorities, everyone is ...
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Supplier articleTop tips to help employees manage their money this festive season
After months of rising prices, this fast-approaching festive season may be a daunting prospect for many when we consider what is usually spent on purchasing gifts, clothing, and decorations, as well as nights out or hosting Christmas dinner. For example, the Bank of England estimates that we spend on average ...
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Supplier articleTop tips to help employees manage their money this festive season
After months of rising prices, this fast-approaching festive season may be a daunting prospect for many when we consider what is usually spent on purchasing gifts, clothing, and decorations, as well as nights out or hosting Christmas dinner. For example, the Bank of England estimates that we spend on average ...
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ArticleEmployers using pay to drive performance more likely to outperform peers
Businesses that make effective use of pay programmes to drive individual and team performance are 1.2 times more likely to outperform others, and 1.4 times more likely to report higher employee productivity, according to research by Willis Towers Watson (WTW).More than 800 global organisations were surveyed, highlighting that employers using ...
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ArticleBarratt Developments UK reports 8.8% mean gender pay gap
Housebuilding organisation Barratt Developments UK has published its 2022 gender pay gap report, showing its mean gender pay gap to have widened from 6.2% in 2021 to 8.8%.The business' median gender pay gap also widened, from -0.4% last year to 6.3% in 2022. The mean bonus pay gap increased from ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Organon introduces digital health support for employees
Credit: Formatoriginal / Shutterstock.comGlobal healthcare business Organon has introduced access to health support from digital app Peppy via Axa Health, for all of its 600 UK-based employees and their partners.Employees will be able to receive menopause, fertility and reproductive health, women’s health, family and baby, men’s health and other areas ...
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Article18% of employers offer staff a salary advance scheme
Employee Benefits poll: Almost a fifth (18%) of organisations offer a salary advance scheme allowing staff to access their wages before payday, according to an online survey among Employee Benefits readers.Conversely, 54% of respondents said that they do not offer a scheme of this kind. However, 31% revealed that while ...
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ArticleWatch Employee Benefits’ free women’s health webinar
Employee Benefits’ webinar, How important is women’s health at work?, is now available to watch for free on demand. The webinar, in association with Peppy, was broadcast live at 11am on Wednesday 7 December. Debbie Lovewell-Tuck, editor of Employee Benefits, was joined by Sam Blevins, health and ...
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Supplier articleCREATING A CULTURE OF COLLABORATION & EQUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE
“Companies that promoted collaborative working were five times as likely to be high performing”, Forbes. COLLABORATION & EQUALITY IN THE WORKPLACE Collaboration and equality are words you may frequently hear used in your office and during team meetings, but what do they mean in the context of ...
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Poll: Has your organisation given staff a Christmas party or a bonus this year?
Take part in our latest readers’ poll on a current topical issue. Last month, Employee Benefits reported that 47% of businesses said they planned to provide staff with year-end bonuses for Christmas 2022, while 81% planned to host a party to mark the festive season and reward employees, according to ...
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ArticleJacob’s Cream Crackers gives factory staff 6.5% pay rise
Credit: Claudio Divizia / Shutterstock.comMore than 750 factory employees for Jacob's Cream Crackers, owned by Pladis, secured an improved pay deal after 11 weeks of strike action.The employees, who also make Mini Cheddars, Clubs and Twiglets at the site in Aintree, the primary facility for the business' products in the ...
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Supplier articleAddiction: Changing the conversation at work
Author: Tracey Ward, Head of Business Development & Marketing at Generali UK Employee BenefitsWhen it comes to addiction, whether to alcohol or drugs (legal/prescription, illegal or otherwise), HR policy tends to lean towards disciplinaries. But considering addiction is often a response to – or can lead to – a physical ...
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ArticleNetball Australia updates parental leave policy
Credit: Alex Bogatyrev / Shutterstock.comNational sporting governing body Netball Australia has amended its parental leave policy in order to better support its employees and their families.Netball Australia increased paid parental leave for primary carers from eight to 18 weeks, while paid parental leave for secondary carers was increased from two ...
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ArticleGovernment awards £1.97 million to help women in the workplace
Organisations including Birmingham Voluntary Services Council, Ashiana Community Project and Suffolk Libraries have received a share of £1.97 million from the government to support women with reproductive issues in the workplace.Around 16 employers across England were successful in their application to this year’s Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) Health ...
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ArticlePentland Brands hires new chief human resources officer
Business management firm Pentland Brands has appointed Belinda Deery (pictured) as chief human resources officer as of this month.As a member of the Pentland Brands executive team, Deery will lead the HR services, recruitment, reward, employee engagement and internal communications teams across the business and brands globally.Deery previously held HR ...
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Supplier articleWhy financial wellbeing should be on an equal footing with mental and physical health
The Oxford Dictionary defines health as ‘the state of being free from illness or injury’.What’s important to note is that the explanation doesn’t refer to any particular division of health, whether that’s physical, mental or even financial. Rather, health relates to being in a fault-free condition.By this definition, health is ...
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ArticleHorse trainer fined €4,000 for failure to pay bonuses to staff
Declan Queally, a horse trainer in Ireland, was fined €4,000 (£3449.24) following an inspection of his stable yard and business, which found he had failed to pay necessary bonuses to staff under the Stable Employee Bonus Scheme.The scheme, which came into force in May 2000, is financed by a 3% ...
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ArticleSearch Intelligence pledges to pay employees' winter utility bills
Digital PR agency Search Intelligence has committed to pay its 50 employees a monthly bonus during the winter months, with the aim of easing the pressure of rising utility bills.Starting in December, for three months Search Intelligence will pay staff an extra £250, amounting to an investment of £12,500 more ...
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ArticleNorthern Ireland government confirms £1,400 NHS pay award
The Department of Health in Northern Ireland has implemented pay awards for NHS staff for 2022-23, amounting to at least £1,400 per annum for those on banded salaries covered by the Agenda for Change.Salaried doctors and dentists, meanwhile, were awarded a 4.5% increase. Both pay awards were backdated to 1 ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Committing to flexibility
The government’s announcement earlier this week that it is committed to introducing a day one right to request flexible working has been welcomed by many, not least those that have campaigned for such a move in recent years.In its response to the consultation Making flexible working the default, the government ...