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ArticleSanofi uses roadshow to communicate benefits to dispersed workforce
Employee Benefits Live 2017: Pharmaceutical organisation Sanofi used a benefits roadshow to help launch a new flexible benefits offering to its dispersed and diverse UK workforce.The organisation has a total of 1,750 employees in the UK, with nearly 900 of these staff and contractors working in manufacturing roles. Sanofi additionally ...
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ArticleThames Water uses virtual reality technology in mental health strategy
Employee Benefits Live 2017: Thames Water is using virtual reality headsets to help mental health first aiders experience what it feels like to be suffering from mental health issues to aid them in spotting the first signs that a colleague needs help.Addressing delegates at Employee Benefits Live 2017, in a ...
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ArticleTeam GB Paracycling counterbalances demanding work with personalised support
Employee Benefits Live 2017: Team GB Paracycling provides its athletes and employees with a range of personalised support measures in order to help staff manage high demand workloads in the professional sporting industry.Presenting the closing keynote address at the end of the first day of Employee Benefits Live 2017, Jon ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Deloitte UK enhances organisation culture to reduce gender pay gap
Employee Benefits Live 2017: Deloitte UK has implemented agile working and an unpaid leave programme in order to improve its organisation culture and gender diversity.The audit, financial and tax advisory organisation focussed on introducing work-life initiatives and enhancing its overall organisation culture after focus groups with their female staff discovered ...
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ArticleHigh Court to rule in Morrisons payroll data leak case
More than 5,500 employees who brought a payroll data leak class action lawsuit against retail organisation Morrisons will see the trial progress to the High Court in London this week.The two-week High Court trial, which commenced on Monday 9 October 2017, is based on a class action lawsuit brought by ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Employers must tackle gender pay gap reporting now
Employee Benefits Live 2017: Employers must start tackling their gender pay gap analysis now to avoid being swamped by voluminous data sets in the run up to the government’s April 2018 deadline.Speaking at Employee Benefits Live 2017 in a session titled 'Gender pay gap reporting: getting it right', Stephen Ravenscroft ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Winning award entries should evidence impact on benefits strategy
Employee Benefits Live 2017: A winning award entry needs to have an interesting benefits story to tell.Addressing delegates on day one of Employee Benefits Live 2017 in the session What makes a winning benefits and reward strategy, Sam Kirk (pictured), reward director at TalkTalk, a previous winner and judge of ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Facebook uses engagement surveys to highlight benefits opportunities
Employee Benefits Live 2017: Social media organisation Facebook uses employee engagement surveys to inform strategic workforce planning decisions, and support the design of a benefits proposition that increases employee satisfaction and engagement.Addressing delegates in the opening keynote presentation of Employee Benefits Live 2017, Ross Sparkman (pictured), head of strategic workforce ...
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ArticleLaw firm Horwich Farrelly appoints mental health first aiders
Insurance industry law firm Horwich Farrelly has appointed 19 mental health first aiders to promote good mental health at work across its six offices.The initiative, which it launched to coincide with World Mental Health Day (Tuesday 10 October), saw the firm recruit 19 staff from across the business to act ...
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ArticleEY reports a 19.7% mean gender pay gap
Professional services organisation EY has reported a mean gender pay gap of 19.7% for fixed hourly pay as at 5 April 2017.The organisation has reported its gender pay gap data in line with the government’s gender pay gap reporting regulations and ahead of the private sector submission deadline of 4 ...
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ArticleBMW Group UK and Royal College of Nursing launch divorce support service for staff
Car manufacturer BMW Group UK and membership organisation the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has launched a new divorce support service for its employees.The Lawyer-Supported Mediation service, which is being introduced at both organisations in recognition of World Mental Health Day (Tuesday 10 October), enables employees and their separating partner ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Neyber to discuss financial wellbeing at Employee Benefits Live 2017
EXCLUSIVE: Nick Burns (pictured), chairman of the advisory board at Neyber, will discuss the cause and effect impacts of financial wellbeing issues on employees’ physical and mental health at Employee Benefits Live 2017.The session, titled ‘How are employees benefitting from financial wellbeing strategies?’, will form part of the financial wellbeing ...
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ArticleFollow the action at Employee Benefits Live 2017
Employee Benefits Live, Europe’s largest employee reward and benefit event, returns for its 19th year on 10 and 11 October 2017 at Olympia National, London.Delegates will be able to attend sessions spanning five different conference streams on each day of the event. This will include presentations on workplace pensions, health ...
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ArticleBlake Morgan helps staff manage and spot the signs of workplace stress
Law firms can be stressful places to work. As Liz Bryne, head of learning and development at law firm Blake Morgan, says: “I’d done quite a lot of work with graduates coming out of law school and starting their careers. I watched quite a few of them grapple with that ...
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ArticleSchneider Electric launches paid global family leave policy across 100 locations
Energy management and automation organisation Schneider Electric has launched a new paid global family leave policy that will be rolled out across its 100 worldwide operating locations by January 2019.The new policy, which forms part of the organisation’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, will enable both birth and adoptive parents ...
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ArticleAviva introduces carers policy and enhances bereavement leave for UK staff
Insurance organisation Aviva has introduced a carers policy and enhanced its bereavement leave benefit for its 16,000 UK-based employees.The carers policy, which became effective on 2 October 2017, enables full-time employees who have caring responsibilities to take up to 35 hours of paid leave per holiday year for planned events, ...
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Article34% of employee absences in financial services are related to mental ill health
Around a third (34%) of employee absences in the financial services sector since 2013 have been due to mental ill health, according to research by AdviserPlus.Its analysis of over 250,000 of its employee records also found that 24% of employee absence days in the retail sector since 2013 relate to ...
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10-11 - At-retirement support
The proportion of respondents that offer at-retirement support to employees has changed little over the years. This year, 40% do so, compared with 46% in 2016 and 45% in 2015.Supporting staff at retirement is key, particularly following the changes that came into effect under 2015's pension changes, which introduced much ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Vanarama to discuss people development at Employee Benefits Live
EXCLUSIVE: Helen King (pictured), non-executive director at car leasing organisation Vanarama will discuss how employers can develop individuals within their business to help minimise staff turnover at Employee Benefits Live 2017.The session, titled ‘Bridging organisational and individual goals to develop and retain future talent’, will form part of the HR ...
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Article43% believe taking shared parental leave would not make financial sense
More than two-fifths (43%) of respondents who are working mothers say they would not take shared parental leave because it would not make financial sense, according to research by Workingmums.co.uk.Its annual survey, which polled 2,300 working mothers, also found that 59% of respondents feel that enhancing shared parental leave pay ...