All articles by Ashleigh Webber – Page 2
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: DVSA shares engagement survey best practice
Employee Benefits Live 2021: HR teams need to go beyond engagement survey results and talk to their teams about the challenges they face, the deputy head of employee engagement at the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has said.Speaking on the first day of Employee Benefits Live 2021, Leigh Barlow ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Sir Robert McAlpine aligns benefits to its family values
Employee Benefits Live 2021: Civil engineering firm Sir Robert McAlpine has transformed its benefits offering to ensure it is reflective of its strong family values.Senior HR business partner Rachel Leyland revealed how the firm uses Reward Gateway's platform to bring its benefits together in one place and ensure employees are ...
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ArticleAsos launches health-related leave policies
Asos has unveiled a packaged of policies to support employees through health-related life events, regardless of their sex or circumstances.Employees can take time away from work for events such as pregnancy loss, fertility treatment, cancer treatment, gender reassignment surgery, and to manage menopause symptoms.Asos CEO Neil Beighton said: "All of ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: The Football Association uses benefits to drive diversity agenda
Employee Benefits Live 2021: Employers should ensure that diversity and inclusion (D&I) is "baked in" to their benefits strategy in order to attract a wider talent pool and provide equity of opportunity, the Football Association's diversity champion has advised.Delivering the keynote address on the first day of Employee Benefits Live ...
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ArticleMedian basic pay awards stabilise at 2%
Pay awards have stabilised for the first time in two years and 2% is the “new normal”, according to XpertHR.The median basic pay award in the three months to the end of August 2021 was 2%, compared to nil just over a year ago when employers were grappling with the ...
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ArticlePay awards stabilise at 2%
Pay awards have stabilised at a ‘welcome’ 2% after a year of uncertainty, according to analysis by XpertHR.The median basic pay award between May and July 2021 was at this level, unchanged on the figure seen in each of the three previous rolling quarters.XpertHR said the stabilisation was welcome, particularly ...
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ArticleSickness absence at 15-year low
The rate of sickness absence in the UK has fallen to its lowest level in 15 years, according to XpertHR.Despite the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, working time lost to sickness absence in 2020 dropped to just 2.2% in 2020, down from 2.7% in 2019 and 2.5% in 2018. The average employee ...
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ArticlePay awards still fail to meet cost of living
Pay awards have reached their highest level for six months, at 2%, but still lag behind inflation.According to the latest analysis of pay settlement data by XpertHR, the average pay award effective in the three months to the end of May 2021 increased by 0.1 percentage points on figure for ...
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ArticleJohn Lewis Partnership introduces equal paid leave for parents
John Lewis Partnership has unveiled a raft of new family-friendly benefits and policies to improve inclusion, including six months’ equal paid maternity and paternity leave.From the autumn, all employees who have been at the UK retailer for a year will be offered 26 weeks of paid leave when they have ...
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ArticleKingsley Napley launches pregnancy loss policy
Law firm Kingsley Napley has formalised a policy that offers paid time off work to all staff affected by pregnancy loss. All employees and partners who lose a baby by miscarriage, stillbirth, abortion, ectopic pregnancy, molar pregnancy or neonatal loss will receive 10 days’ paid leave without ...
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ArticleTribunal awards temp worker holiday pay accrued on furlough
An employment tribunal has found a recruitment agency withheld holiday pay from a temporary worker while she was on furlough.The worker, Miss K Healy, claimed that temporary work agency Start People, which employed her, did not pay holiday pay that had been accrued while she was on furlough between March ...
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ArticleTwo-thirds of employers offer enhanced maternity pay
Enhanced maternity pay is offered by almost two-thirds of organisations, with almost the same proportion providing paternity pay that is more generous than statutory requirements. However, only a quarter offer enhanced shared parental pay.A survey by XpertHR of 375 organisations that collectively employ almost one million staff found that the ...
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ArticleMonzo offers staff leave for pregnancy loss and fertility treatment
Image credit: Ink Drop / Shutterstock.com Online bank Monzo has introduced additional paid leave for employees who suffer pregnancy loss, or are undergoing fertility treatments, diagnosis or consultations. As part of its drive to safeguard the mental health of its workforce, it is allowing those who suffer ...
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ArticleBoohoo may link bosses’ bonuses to ESG goals
Image credit: AL Robinson / Shutterstock.comOnline fashion retailer Boohoo could link executive bonuses to environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals, including workers’ rights improvements.The company’s chairman, Mahmud Kamani, told the government’s environmental audit committee (EAC) that it was considering taking forward the committee’s recommendation to align bosses’ remuneration with ESG ...
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ArticleBasic pay awards remain at 1%
Median basic pay awards in the first quarter of 2021 were less than half the value of that seen in the same period in 2020, at just 1%.This is according to the latest analysis of pay settlement data by XpertHR, which showed the average pay award recorded across the three ...
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ArticleBarclays outlines policy to avoid burnout among junior bankers
Barclays has told junior staff to take Saturdays off and book at least two five-day periods of annual leave a year in order to avoid burnout. According to media reports, the bank has urged analysts and associates not to work between 9pm on Fridays and 9am on ...
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ArticleResolution Foundation finds half of staff saw real earnings slashed last year
Claims that weekly pay growth reached its highest rate for two decades in 2020 were too good to be true, according to a think-tank which has found half of all workers actually experienced a pay cut last autumn.The Resolution Foundation’s latest quarterly earnings outlook finds that compositional changes in the ...
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ArticleThousands of workers to get 9% pay rise on 1 April
From 1 April 2021 thousands of low-paid workers will receive a pay rise of almost 9%, as the eligibility for the national living wage is widened to include 23- and 24-year-olds.Announced by the chancellor in the Spending Review last November, the national living wage (NLW) rate will increase 2.2% from ...
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ArticleTesco prevented from using 'fire and rehire' tactics at Livingston warehouse
Retail trade union Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (Usdaw) has won a court case preventing Tesco from moving staff at its Livingston distribution centre onto new contracts, in what the union described as a ‘fire and rehire’ tactic.The judgment from the Court of Session in Edinburgh means that ...
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ArticleAviva offers employees wellbeing day off
Insurer Aviva is giving all of its 16,000 UK employees an extra day off this year to help boost their wellbeing.Employees will be able to use the extra day of leave as they wish and it can be taken at any point during the year, on top of their usual ...
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