All Employee Benefits articles in 2022 – Page 66
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ArticleWest Mercia Police’s gender pay gap falls
West Mercia Police has reported a 9.8% hourly pay mean gender pay gap for 2021, which has decreased from 10.5% in 2020.It means the force’s hourly pay mean pay gap has narrowed every year since 2018, where it was 13%. In 2019, it stood at 12.8%.Meanwhile, its hourly pay median ...
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ArticleLondon Underground drivers to get 8% pay rise
London Underground workers are set to receive an 8.4% pay rise from next month (April) as part of a deal agreed by the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan.A four-year agreement was made back in early 2020, which was backdated to include 2019/20, and so which covers the period between 2019/20 ...
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ArticleThe top 10 most-read articles between 18 March – 24 March 2022
The top 10 most-read stories on employeebenefits.co.uk between 18 March and 24 March 2022 were: EXCLUSIVE: Employee Benefits Awards 2022 shortlist revealedHSBC UK, First Direct, M&S Bank become endometriosis-friendly employersBoots to pay staff HRT prescriptions costsStantec UK launches electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemeBelfast food delivery staff strike over pay demandsIpsos ...
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ArticleMaking post-pandemic working more pawsome
Something for the weekend: The tail-wagging, excited-until-I’ll-explode welcome those of us who have dogs brace ourselves for as we walk in the door each evening is one of the things that makes the daily treadmill of commute/work/sleep bearable.The unconditional love dogs have for their ‘hoomans’ means the fact dog ownership ...
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ArticleBarton's blog: Spring sun doesn't herald brighter times
It’s so nice to have had a little bit of sunshine this week; while it seems as though Spring has well and truly arrived, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak’s Spring Statement on Wednesday didn’t exactly usher in brighter times ahead.In his much-anticipated speech, Sunak reiterated the pressures felt ...
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Supplier articleHow To Reward Working Mums In Your Company.
A massive 75% of women with dependent children are employed. Juggling work and family life isn’t easy. Over the course of the pandemic, life has been made even harder with 59% of working mums saying they had a decline in mental health overall. But you can do a few simple ...
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ArticleBritish Association of Dental Nurses introduces menopause policy
The British Association of Dental Nurses (BADN) has launched a menopause policy that is applicable to all dental practices from yesterday (23 March) in a bid to retain dental nurses.The policy includes recommended support that dental practice employers can offer menopausal employees, such as having a menopause champion in the ...
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ArticleBalfour Beatty reports reduced gender pay gap
International infrastructure group Balfour Beatty has published its 2021 Gender pay report, which revealed that its mean gender pay gap has fallen from 27% in 2018 to 21% in 2021 and its median gap from 33% to 18%.Furthermore, its mean gender bonus gap for 2021 is 29% and the media ...
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Supplier articleEndometriosis, the Equality Act and you
By Tracey Ward, Head of Business Development & Marketing at Generali UK Employee BenefitsEndometriosis in the workplace seems to be finally shaking off the taboos. And rightly so, considering it affects around 1 in 10 women and girls of reproductive age globally.1 Diagnosis for this often painful and debilitating condition ...
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Article72% of UK office staff would prefer a four-day week
New data has highlighted that almost three-quarters (72%) of UK office workers said they would prefer a four-day working week while still receiving the same salary and having the same amount of work to do.The Changing behaviours of a flexible workforce in 2022 and beyond research, which was commissioned by ...
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Supplier articleWhy should reproductive health be a part of your mental health benefits?
Author Name: Ruby Relton BSc MSc COVID-19 and the shift to remote working has catalysed the demand for mental health benefits - it is now a “must have” for employers in 2021. In fact, in a recent survey 91% of respondents stated that a company’s culture should ...
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Supplier articlePay Gap Reporting: Insight Series from Henley Reward Consulting – Part 1
Author Name: Louise Haines, Managing Director at Henley Reward Consulting The reporting deadline for the gender pay gap is fast approaching: 30th March 2022 for most public authority employers and the 4th April 2022 for private, voluntary and all other public authority employers. In addition, UK employers ...
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Supplier articleHertility Answers: What is egg freezing, and does it benefit your employees?
Author Name: Ruby Relton BSc MSc As the reproductive health revolution is making its way to the workplace, “Hertility Answers” addresses queries from human resources, rewards and benefits managers on all things women’s health. Employee benefits once encompassed things such as a free gym membership, company car ...
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ArticleKreston Reeves appoints new HR director
Accountants, business and financial advisory firm Kreston Reeves has appointed Sharn Manku as its new HR director, as it looks further to develop its HR and training function.Manku joins from tax and accounting information and technology provider Wolters Kluwer, where she was head of human resources for three business units ...
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Supplier articleTHE IMPORTANCE OF PAY IN A FINANCIAL WELLBEING STRATEGY
On first reading, you might think the question of the importance of pay as a part of a financial wellbeing strategy is a silly one. After all, what can be more important to financial wellbeing at work than someone’s salary? Undoubtedly, monthly income and financial wellbeing are ...
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Case StudiesMilk and Honey empowers staff through employee ownership
PR agency Milk and Honey was founded in 2017 by group CEO Kirsty Leighton. After starting life as a limited liability partnership, last year it converted to an employee ownership trust (EOT), which saw 52% of the agency’s 27 members of staff become co-owners.Leighton explains that this is a much ...
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AnalysisWhy should employers consider employee ownership as their next business move?
Need to know:Transitioning to an employee ownership trust (EOT) transfers control of a business to employees, while also giving tax incentives to the shareholders.There is also the opportunity to deliver an annual bonus that comes under the tax-free allowance, which is currently £3,600 per employee per year.Trustee board meetings will ...
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OpinionJames de le Vingne: Why should employers consider employee ownership?
When we talk about the why of becoming employee-owned, at the Employee Ownership Association (EOA) we often use the analogy ‘who washes a hire car’?There is a mental change that happens when you own something. It drives behaviours that relate to what needs to be done rather than what you ...
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Supplier articleWhich employee benefits do employees value the most?
A study by Mastercard found that globally, 58% of consumers said they are now more mindful of their impact on the environment since COVID-19. The pandemic has also made more of us more conscious of our health and wellbeing.As an employer, focusing on what your employees value most & how ...
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ArticleSpring Statement 2022: National Insurance threshold rises
Spring Statement 2022: Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has today (23 March) confirmed that the National Insurance primary threshold and lower profits limit for employees and the self-employed will increase from July.Sunak stated that the rise from £9,880 to £12,570 will benefit almost 30 million people, seeing a typical ...