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ArticleModibodi offers employees leave for menstruation, menopause and miscarriages
Sustainable period pants brand Modibodi has launched a new policy offering its employees paid leave for menstruation, menopause and miscarriage symptoms.Employees will be entitled to an additional 10 days paid personal leave per year in addition to the organisation's existing sick leave entitlements. Modibodi said these days are to be ...
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Hedges Law firm becomes employee owned through trust
Oxford law firm Hedges Law has announced its 40 employees have become part owners of the business through an Employee Ownership Trust.This means all employees are eligible to become beneficiaries of the trust after six months of employment, with 10% of the company's distributable profits to be shared equally among ...
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ArticleGroup risk industry paid record claims to employees in 2020
Research by Group Risk Development (Grid) has revealed the UK group risk industry paid a record £2.01 billion in claims to employees and dependants in 2020.This is equivalent to £5.5 million a day and an increase of £255.7 million since 2019. A total of 4,476 employees were helped back to ...
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ArticleForth Ports recruits Michelle Primrose as group HR manager
Ports group Forth Ports has appointed Michelle Primrose as its new group HR manager.Primrose will be based in the port of Grangemouth with responsibility for HR across the company's eight ports. She will join the senior management team and report to group chief executive Charles Hammond.She has held previous HR ...
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ArticleKavitha Sivasubramaniam: Rising to the challenge with resilience
As our Building a Resilient Workforce Week, in association with Aon, draws to a close, it is time to reflect on some of the trends and issues currently shaping employers’ strategies in this area.The issue of resilience has slowly been climbing its way up employers’ agendas since the beginning of ...
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Industry standards clean sheet for recruiter despite pandemic challenges
ANNE Corder Recruitment has retained its quality certification for the 26th consecutive year – having risen to the challenges faced by the business world in a turbulent year.The Peterborough-based recruitment firm has again passed its quality review, with inspectors praising the team of experienced recruitment professionals and their “outstanding” management ...
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ArticleGlobal Marine Group launches flexible working and wellbeing initiative
Telecommunications and offshore renewables company Global Marine Group (GMG) has launched a remote working programme to allow its employees across the world to have more control over their flexible working and wellbeing.GMG Evolution has been designed to encourage remote working for all 900 members of staff, who work in multiple ...
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ArticleO2 employees to receive £1,930 boosted bonus
Telecommunications company O2 has rewarded its employees with a boosted £1,930 bonus as a result of its record first-quarter results.The company, which is part of Telefonica UK, reported its highest ever first-quarter profit in its history this year, an increase of 7.6% from last year. Because of this, O2 surprised ...
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ArticlePledge to make Manchester a living wage city
Newly re-elected mayor of Manchester Andy Burnham has unveiled a vision for the city to become the UK’s first to pay the living wage.A new Living Wage City-Region action group has been set up - which will see Burnham begin talks and start collaborations with businesses, unions, local authorities, faith ...
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Article25% of 55-64-year-olds unaware of pension freedoms
More than six years after employees gained pension freedoms that gave them more control of their retirement savings, research has revealed one-in-four people aged 55-64 are not aware of them.This lack of knowledge among the age group most likely to need the freedoms was highlighted by Fidelity International. According to ...
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ArticleGet paid £1,000 to test bottomless brunches
Something for the weekend: It’s a tough job but someone has to do it. Social review platform Psydro is on the hunt for a team of 10 lucky souls to test bottomless brunches - and will even pay them for the privilege.Successful applicants will be required to review one meal ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid declutters her inbox
Who are these people who achieve ‘inbox zero’ with their email? I think it must be an urban myth put about by people who have personal assistants. Still, I always used to aim for a white space at the bottom of my inbox by the end of the day. How ...
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ArticleThe top 10 most-read articles between 6 May – 12 May 2021
The top 10 most-read stories on employeebenefits.co.uk between 6 May – 12 May 2021 were: Dixons Carphone announces 9% pay rise and investment in staff wellbeingKPMG unveils flexible hybrid working modelHow can employees make flexible working schemes relevant post-pandemic? Improving morale with Ed SheeranHas workplace menopause support improved in recent ...
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ArticleScandic Hotels hires Fredrik Wetterlundh as chief HR officer
Nordic hotel company Scandic Hotels Group has appointed Fredrik Wetterlundh as its new chief human resources officer.Wetterlundh, who is due to start in August, will become a member of Scandic’s executive committee.Up until recently, he worked at Ericsson and was responsible for driving change leadership, developing corporate culture and boosting ...
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ArticleRestaurants move staff to four-day weeks
The owner of two East Yorkshire restaurants is to allow staff to work four-day weeks in order to boost their wellbeing and productivity.Sam Carroll – who owns the Triton Inn in Brantingham and The Fox and Coney in South Cave – has announced that both businesses (which only opened a ...
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Article58% think office working will repair their mental health
More than half of employees want to return to office life to improve their mental health after the isolation of remote working.This is the finding of new research by Canada Life, which revealed that 58% of those who will return to workplaces plan to do so because they are actually ...
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ArticleMedway Community Healthcare introduces occupational health services
Medway Community Healthcare has revealed plans to offer its staff a range of occupational health services.The social enterprise, which works to help and improve local communities, will provide employees across the organisation with pre-employment health assessments, referral assessments and management, and vaccination and immunity testing.The services will be provided by ...
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ArticleEdwin James Group trains staff as mental health first aiders
Engineering company Edwin James Group has chosen 10 employees to become mental health first aiders to support the wellbeing of its 1,000-strong workforce.The selected members of staff, who come from across the business, have taken part in an intensive two-day course with St Johns Ambulance. The course focused on recognising ...
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ArticleDaisy Hooper: Should employers cut pay for staff who continue to work from home?
Over the past year, the pandemic has drastically changed the working practices for most organisations. One of these changes has been the dramatic increase in home working. However, as restrictions are lifted and we slowly return to the workplace, employers need to be making a choice on how they will ...
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ArticleClare Fletcher: Should employers cut pay for staff who continue to work from home?
Where employers are considering implementing pay cuts for staff continuing to work from home, it is important to understand the reasoning behind this.There are a number of potentially legitimate reasons why an employer may look to implement a pay cut. This could be because of a need to make cost ...