All Benefits for carers articles – Page 29
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Supplier articleNumis prevents hybrid working staff divide with family support platform
In a bid to remain competitive in attracting new talent and retaining staff, many employers are formalising new ways of work and with the hybrid working revolution in full swing, leading investment banking firm, Numis, recognised a need to support its staff with caring and family responsibilities such that hybrid ...
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Supplier articleWorking from home is not enough to solve the crisis of parents forced out of work
The ability to work from home is not a silver bullet for staff struggling with work-life balance and juggling family responsibilities. According to new research, working from home over the lockdown primarily improved work-life balance for those over the age of 55, while those below retirement age ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Pregnant Then Screwed to give keynote at Employee Benefits Live 2021
EXCLUSIVE: Joeli Brearley, founder of charity and campaign group Pregnant Then Screwed, will be delivering the closing keynote speech about the motherhood penalty on Thursday 7 October at Employee Benefits Live 2021.The speech, titled 'What employers need to know about the motherhood penalty', will take place at the end of ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits on offer at Herbert Smith Freehills
The benefits offered by Herbert Smith Freehills:PensionA defined contribution (DC) pension scheme for all employees, with employer-matched contributions up to a total of 16% (employee/employer).Healthcare and wellbeingPrivate medical insurance (PMI) scheme, employer paid for all employees and their families.Income protection, employer paid for all employees.Health screening, employee paid.Health cash plan, ...
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Supplier articleSurvey: Work-Life Imbalance Threatens Return To Office
For UK companies grappling with severe labor shortages, inadequate family support is proving harmful to both parents and employers. At the onset of the summer holiday break, we collected feedback from the experts in this area - working parents. Roughly 1 in 4 entered into the holiday ...
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OpinionDavid Sheppard: How would a single employment status change workplaces?
The Deputy Labour Leader Angela Rayner MP recently announced various significant reforms to employment law rights if Labour were to win power. The most eye-catching was the abolition of the distinction between employee and worker status, and the creation of a single worker status covering all individuals engaged by employers. ...
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Supplier articleRisk of Depression increases by 300% for those in toxic workplaces
Keyword: toxic workplaceUnfortunately, toxic workplaces exist. Defining a toxic workplace can be difficult. But simply put, they are a workplace where the environment or people significantly impact your personal life. Although it is impossible to avoid all negative behaviours, if they begin to affect your people's ability to work and ...
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Supplier articleHow employer-subsidised childcare can drive growth post-covid
It’s often overlooked, but childcare support has the potential to provide invaluable productivity growth and stability for businesses.Childcare support is essential to any business, yet it's taken the pandemic to make us wake up to this. The Covid-19 pandemic shed an unforgiving light on childcare, magnifying existing barriers to access ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits on offer at Global Marine Group
The benefits offered to UK employees at Global Marine Group:PensionA group personal pension (GPP) for all employees with matched contributions at 7.5%.Closed defined benefit (DB) scheme.Healthcare and group riskPrivate medical insurance (PMI) scheme with Axa PPP, employer-funded for all employees.Health cash plan for all employees with Medicash, employee paid.Employee assistance ...
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Supplier article7 in 8 nonparent staff think employers should support working parents
Seven in eight UK financial sector workers who are nonparents agree that employers should provide support to working parents, according to a survey conducted by Bubble For Work.When the pandemic first hit, news headlines were filled with stories of working parents struggling to cope with homeschooling, and an alarming exodus ...
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AnalysisHow has the hybrid working trend impacted benefit and reward strategies?
Need to know:The future of work is likely to be made up of a mix of office and home working.This is having an impact on what benefits employers offer.How employers communicate with staff will also need to change in a hybrid model.The potential for most employees to work from home ...
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ArticleBumble introduces new paid leave policies
Dating app Bumble has announced it will give all of its employees a minimum of six months' paid leave for the birth, adoption or surrogacy of a child.Workers will be able to take at least 12 weeks' leave a year to take care of a family member and caregivers will ...
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ArticlePublicis Groupe UK launches family policies
Communications organisation Publicis Groupe UK has implemented family-centered workplace policies for its employees spanning maternity, paternity and shared parental leave, as well as adoption, surrogacy, fertility and pregnancy loss.The introduction of these will be supported by a training and education program aimed at employees and managers. They are the latest ...
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Supplier articlePitfalls to avoid when implementing hybrid working change
This has been a very overwhelming year for us all. Though there is a light in the tunnel, employee burnout is now more insidious than ever. As the pandemic has shown, a rigid work culture and pressure to work long hours is enough to push even those working remotely to ...
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OpinionLaura Jackson: How can employees ease back into the workplace?
As Freedom Day' (19 July) has now passed, many employers are beginning to consider long-term plans for their workforce. The Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has introduced remarkable shifts in peoples’ lives, including their working styles. It feels like every week the news reports another large corporate announcing plans to introduce hybrid ...
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Supplier articleThe real question you should be asking yourself about lifting restrictions and the return to the workplace
The question of whether employers should ask staff to return to the workplace has dominated business coverage over the last month. The true question business leaders must ask is not ‘what can you do?’ as we transition back to pre-pandemic activities, but rather ‘what do staff actually want?’.Here are the ...
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ArticleVertu Motors introduces enhanced maternity pay
Vertu Motors has launched an enhanced maternity pay scheme to support its employees and boost its commitment to delivering a more gender balanced workforce.Staff will be entitled to the scheme if they have been continuously employed by the group for at least 52 weeks. Under the Statutory Maternity Pay (SMP) ...
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OpinionRebecca Florisson: Reward packages must be tailored to employees' needs post pandemic
As the Government’s guidance to work from home draws to a close, workers are not queuing up to get back into the office. Recent evidence published by the Office for National Statistics in June 2021, shows that the majority of those who worked remotely during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic (85%) ...
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Case StudiesHow Essex County Council is reimagining benefits post-pandemic
Essex County Council is thinking hard about what benefits look like after the pandemic, concentrating its efforts on flexible working and wellbeing for its employees.Pam Parkes, Essex County Council’s director of organisational development and people, says: “I think there is going to be more structured hybrid working, which is what ...
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Article25% of working mothers prioritise flexible working
New research has revealed that a quarter of working mothers cited a flexible working schedule as their number one priority in a new job.CV-writing service TopCV surveyed 1,017 UK professionals to find out how the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic had affected their roles as workers and parents. It found that 85% ...