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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: ACCA launches mental health resilience workshops for wellbeing champions
EXCLUSIVE: Global professional accountancy body ACCA has launched pilot mental health resilience workshops for selected staff in London and Glasgow.The workshops, the first of which took place on 19 September 2018, offer advice on the mental and physical steps employees can take to promote wellbeing in the workplace. They are ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 55% do not measure sickness absence cost
EXCLUSIVE: More than half (55%) of respondents either do not know or do not record the percentage of payroll represented by sickness absence cost per annum, according to research by Employee Benefits and Health Shield.The Employee Benefits/Health Shield healthcare research 2018 report, which measured 162 responses and was published in ...
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ArticleCourt of Appeal hearing set for Asda shop-floor workers' pay claim rulings
A Court of Appeal hearing will begin on 10 October over Employment Tribunal (ET) and Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) pay claim rulings that Asda shop-floor workers have comparable roles to their colleagues in the supermarket’s distribution centres.The three-day hearing concerns the first of three stages in the equal pay case. ...
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ArticleIndustrial Tribunal awards £3,000 to man told he was ‘too old’ to apply for job
Image credit: Equality Commission NIAn Industrial Tribunal has awarded £3,000 to a 63-year-old man from Antrim who was told he was too old to apply for a job as a store person and van driver by Spring and Airbrake Ireland.The Tribunal found Patrick Matier (pictured), whose case was supported by ...
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ArticleLippert Components fined $338,151 for overtime pay violations
Indiana-based vehicle parts manufacturing organisation Lippert Components has been ordered to pay $338,151 (£258,959.42) in overtime back pay and liquidated damages following an investigation by the US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD).Investigators uncovered violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) relating to 1,199 current and former ...
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ArticleTwo-thirds of managers put organisation above staff wellbeing
Although 61% of employees have experienced a mental health issue due to work, or in which work was a contributing factor, 64% of managers put their organisation’s interests above staff wellbeing at some point, and 12% do so every day, according to a workplace mental health report by Business in ...
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ArticleMore than half of workplaces do not encourage employees to exercise
Three in five (57%) workplaces do not offer benefits or programmes to encourage employees to exercise, according to Opinium research.Two online surveys of 2,007 and 2,000 UK adults, in August and September respectively, also revealed that one in five (22%) of organisations offer a cycle-to-work scheme, while 14% provide subsidised ...
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ArticleUber drivers set for 24-hour strike over workers' rights
Uber drivers in London, Birmingham and Nottingham are to stage a 24-hour strike over worker's rights from 1pm today and will hold protests outside the organisation’s offices in each of the three cities.The industrial action has been called by the United Private Hire Drivers (UPHD) branch of the Independent Workers ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Cisco adopts wide family-centric organisational culture to support staff wellbeing
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Multinational technology organisation Cisco has embraced and promoted a family-centric organisational culture, and corresponding customisable benefits, in order to support the wellbeing of its 73,400 global employees and enable them to better manage the integration between their personal and professional lives.In a session titled ‘Flexing to ...
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ArticleTwo-fifths of employers provide financial education because it is a valued employee benefit
Two-fifths (40%) of employer respondents provide financial education to their workforce because it is viewed as a valued employee benefit, according to research by financial planning and investment organisation Close Brothers Asset Management.Its Close Brothers business barometer report, which surveyed 900 UK employers, also found that 37% have implemented financial ...
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ArticleHeineken South Africa, Microsoft and Nestle recognised as 2019’s top employers in South Africa
Coca-Cola Peninsula Beverages, Heineken South Africa, Microsoft, Nestle and Unilever South Africa are among the organisations recognised on the Top Employers 2019 for South Africa list, compiled by independent HR certification organisation the Top Employers Institute.The list celebrates and recognises businesses that provide the best working environments for their employees, ...
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ArticleKavitha Sivasubramaniam: Raising awareness of health and wellbeing
As our Health and Wellbeing Week, in association with Benenden Health, draws to a close, it is time to reflect on some of the trends and issues currently shaping this area of the benefits market.Many employers today recognise the value that employees place on health and wellbeing provisions offered by ...
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ArticleEmployee Benefits Live 2018 speaker slides
Where speakers have given approval, we have uploaded the speaker slides for the keynote and conference sessions at Employee Benefits Live 2018, which took place on 2-3 October 2018 at ExCeL London.Thank you very much to all of the speakers for sharing their ideas, experiences and insights.Keynote speakers:K1: Putting health ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Employers need to improve employee experience around digital transformation
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Employers need to improve the employee experience around the constantly evolving digital transformation, to help mitigate career disruption for employees and avoid potential skills shortages.In a session titled ‘Transformational change and the impact of digital on employee experience’, Martin Kirke, group HR director at the Post ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Stephens Scown charts successful employee engagement journey
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Law firm Stephens Scown has implemented an employee engagement strategy that has seen it ranked for the last four years in the Sunday Times Best 100 companies to work for.In a session titled ‘Engaging multi-generational workplaces’, Lucy Palmer, director of HR at Stephens Scown, described the ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Building an inclusive culture must start from the top
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Building a diverse and inclusive culture requires full understanding and buy-in from the organisation’s leadership.In a session titled ‘What does an inclusive workplace look like?’ Catherine Garrod, head of inclusion at Sky, Emma Codd, managing partner for talent at Deloitte, Philip Wilson, head of assessment and ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: eBay's Hooper-Campbell says employers must break convention to celebrate diversity
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Employers must stop looking for a quick solution, and instead work on breaking conventions to truly celebrate and promote diversity and inclusion in the workplace.In the opening keynote address on day two of Employee Benefits Live, entitled ‘Breaking with convention’, Damien Hooper-Campbell, vice president and the ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Mundipharma offers choice and convenience with new flexible benefits strategy
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Pharmaceutical organisation Mundipharma’s overhauled flexible benefits package offers wider choice to employees.In a session entitled ‘Building a flexible benefits strategy for the future’, which took place as part of the benefits strategy stream at Employee Benefits Live on Tuesday 2 October, Amy Goodwin, head of reward ...
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ArticlePoll: 43% offer flexible working to support male employees with caring responsibilities
Employee Benefits poll: More than two-fifths (43%) of respondents offer male employees flexible working opportunities in order to support them with caring responsibilities.A straw poll of www.employeebenefits.co.uk readers, which received 21 responses, also found that 24% of respondents promote a family-friendly organisational culture to help support male staff with their ...
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ArticleKavitha's keynote: Mental health matters when it comes to wellbeing
On day one of this year’s Employee Benefits Live, which took place on 2 and 3 October at ExCeL London, Google’s Cayla Kitayama delivered the opening keynote address which explored how to put health and wellbeing at the heart of an organisation’s benefits strategy.Kitayama, who is responsible for the technology ...