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ArticleHelen Smith: How looking after employees’ health and wellbeing can boost engagement
Engaged employees are good for business. By creating a culture where employees feel valued and happy to be at work, an organisation can often see improvements in productivity, innovation, financial performance, and reductions in absence and staff turnover.As engagement becomes more and more important for employers, the link between employee ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 77% offer support or counselling services to some or all employees
EXCLUSIVE: More than three-quarters (77%) of employer respondents offer support or counselling services to some or all employees, according to research by Employee Benefits and Health Shield.Support or counselling benefits include employee assistance programmes (EAPs), other types of stress counselling, such as cognitive behavioural therapy, and other forms of counselling ...
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ArticleYum! Brands holds employee development week
Yum! Brands has held an employee development week for its Louisville-based staff to help employees explore aspects of their personal wellbeing and build on skills to further their professional development.Its Grow Yourself Week, which took place from 18 September 2017, offered more than 30 professional and personal development opportunities. This ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Royal College of Nursing to discuss support for carers at Employee Benefits Live 2017
EXCLUSIVE: Andrew West (pictured), HR manager, reward and system at the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), will discuss how employers can support working carers to help them cope with juggling care and work responsibilities at Employee Benefits Live 2017.The session, titled ‘Supporting carers in the workforce’, will form part of ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 67% have specific benefits in place to support staff mental health
EXCLUSIVE: More than two-thirds (67%) of respondents’ organisations have specific benefits and strategies in place to support their employees’ mental health, according to research by Employee Benefits and Health Shield.While narrower in scope, it is telling that when respondents to Employee Benefits’ Healthcare research between 2001 and 2013 were asked ...
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Mercer to acquire Jason Associates
Global consultancy firm Mercer has agreed to acquire Portuguese consulting and talent management business Jason Associates.The acquisition will enable the combined business to provide HR consultancy services with the technology and tools to drive transformation in the design, implementation and communication of people management. This will enable Mercer to offer ...
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Article29% of group income protection claims are for cancer
Just under a third (29%) of group income protection claims are for cancer, according to data from provider Unum.Its annual claims statement, which analysed data relating to the 1,722 group income protection claims paid by Unum between 1 August 2016 and 31 July 2017, also found 17% of overall group ...
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ArticleEmployee motivation in numbers
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ArticleHogwarts seeks to recruit wizarding staff
Something for the weekend: Wannabe wizards will be rubbing their hands together at the latest recruitment drive from Warner Brother Studio Tour London, as the movie studio hunts down candidates to work in the hallowed halls of magicking school Hogwarts.Those looking to work with JK Rowlings’ fictional Harry Potter series ...
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ArticleTop 10 most read stories this week: 14-20 September 2017
The top 10 most read stories on www.employeebenefits.co.uk between 14 and 20 September 2017 were: Adidas and Nomura named Britain's Healthiest Workplaces for 2017Tribunal rules in favour of HMRC in national minimum wage penalty cap caseFujitsu reports a 16.7% mean gender pay gapCadbury agrees two-year pay deal and enhanced maternity ...
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ArticleGoogle, Lego and Microsoft top 2017’s best corporate social responsibility list
Google, Lego Group, Microsoft and The Walt Disney Company are among the organisations named as having the best corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance, according to the Reputation Institute.Its 2017 global CSR RepTrak 100 report, which is based on 170,000 ratings from interviews with members of the public from the UK, ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 82% feel they could do more to address mental health at work
EXCLUSIVE: The majority (82%) of respondents feel they could do more to better address mental health in the workplace, according to research by employee assistance programme provider CIC.Its Stress, anxiety and depression in the workplace index 2017, which surveyed 440 HR professionals, also found that 86% of respondents have bullying ...
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ArticleThe Work and Pensions Committee launches inquiry into pension freedoms
The Work and Pensions Committee has launched an inquiry to investigate whether the pension freedom and choice reforms, introduced in 2015, are successfully operating as the policy intended.Its call for evidence, which will be open to responses until Monday 23 October 2017, has asked for feedback on whether the freedom ...
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ArticleGreensill Capital launches new benefits package for UK staff
Financial services organisation Greensill Capital has launched a new package of benefits and online benefits platform for its 72 UK employees.Its online portal, Greensill Rewards, which was launched in August and is provided by Portus Consulting, provides staff with access to new employer-paid benefits, such as private medical insurance, a ...
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ArticleCadbury agrees two-year pay deal and enhanced maternity pay for 1,300 UK staff
Cadbury has agreed a two-year pay deal and enhanced maternity pay package at three of its UK sites, covering approximately 1,300 employees.Employees at the confectionary manufacturer's Bournville, Chirk and Markbrook sites will receive a backdated 3.2% pay increase for April 2017-March 2018, based on February 2017’s Retail Prices Index (RPI). ...
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ArticleLow Pay Commission recommends actions to reduce minimum wage non-compliance
The Low Pay Commission (LPC) has recommended that the government publishes details of organisations which do not comply with national minimum wage legislation at regular timed intervals, for example quarterly or every six months, in order to regularly raise awareness of non-compliance.The recommendation forms part of its Non-compliance and enforcement ...
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ArticleBritish Airways i360 gains living wage accreditation
Brighton-based attraction British Airways i360 has been accredited as a living wage employer by the Living Wage Foundation.As part of the accreditation, British Airways i360 has committed to pay both its direct employees and third-party contractors at least the voluntary living wage rate of £8.45 an hour.British Airways i360’s accreditation ...
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ArticleEuromonitor International holds global health and wellbeing week
Business intelligence organisation Euromonitor International held a health and wellbeing week across 10 of its global operating locations for its 1,264 employees.The health and wellness week took place between 11 and 16 September for staff in Bangalore, Cape Town, Dubai, London, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo and Vilnius, while the organisation’s ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 96% offer an EAP on a core basis
EXCLUSIVE: Almost all (96%) employer respondents offer an employee assistance programme (EAP) on a core basis in 2017, a higher proportion than the 58% in 2013, and the 78% that did so in 2012, according to research by Employee Benefits and Health Shield.The Employee Benefits/Health Shield Healthcare research 2017, which ...
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ArticleRyanair to change annual leave calendar
Ryanair is to change its calendar for annual leave from April to March to January to December from 1 January 2018.As a result of the change, the airline has had to allocate annual leave to pilots in September and October, leading to the cancellation of approximately 50 flights a day ...