All Benefits for carers articles – Page 35
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ArticleGovernment launches dedicated app to support 1.5 million UK adult social care staff
A new app for 1.5 million adult social care workers, has been launched to offer support throughout the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, providing staff with mental wellbeing support, Covid-19 guidance, and discounts available to them.The Care Workforce app, developed by NHSX and the NHS Business Services Authority, will be offered to ...
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Article64,600 Welsh care home employees receive £500 pay reward
64,600 Welsh care home and personal care employees will receive a £500 payment to reward them for their hard work during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.Announced on 1 May 2020, the payment is part of the government's £40 million plan to provide extra funding to support social care services.Further details about ...
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ArticleMandy Garner: How can employers support working parents during the Covid-19 crisis?
The Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has thrown up multiple challenges for parents, both those who are still able to go to work and those who have to work from home.For those having to work around childcare or homeschooling, the most important thing is an empathetic employer that understands the stresses and ...
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ArticleJane van Zyl: How can employers support working parents during the Covid-19 crisis?
For parents with children at home due to Covid-19 (Coronavirus) school closures, working from home is anything but 'business as usual'. On top of their normal jobs, many working parents now have the added pressures of helping their children with schoolwork, keeping the whole family mentally and physically healthy, and ...
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ArticleSally Tomlinson: How can employers support working parents during the Covid-19 crisis?
Given the closure of schools and nurseries, the majority of working parents will be facing the issue of having to juggle their work with their childcare and home-schooling responsibilities.Employers are encouraged to be flexible and accommodating in their approach in these unprecedented times so as both to support the challenges ...
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ArticleKaren Brookes: How can employers support working parents during the Covid-19 crisis?
Most successful businesses put their employees at the very heart of operations. After all, it is the people, as well as the organisation’s operations, that combine to make up organisational culture.Inevitably, then, Covid-19 (Coronavirus) presents every employer with huge challenges, not just in how to support employees and pull through ...
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ArticleFurloughed employees to receive full parental leave pay entitlements
Employees planning to take paid parental or adoption leave whilst on furlough will be entitled to full pay based on their usual earnings rather than a furloughed pay rate.Announced by the government on 24 April 2020, the changes ensures that all employees intending to take time off following the birth, ...
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ArticleGoogle increases its employee parental leave entitlement to 14 weeks
Technology organisation Google has extended its parental leave benefits worldwide, offering its 114,000 eligible employees additional support during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.On 16 April 2020, Google extended its carer leave policy by eight weeks, to support working parents dealing will school and care facility closures during the pandemic.This is in ...
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ArticleMicrosoft offers employees three months additional parental leave
American technology organisation Microsoft is offering extended leave benefits to all of its 150,000 employees who are working parents, to support them during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.Effective immediately, the 12-week Paid Pandemic School and Childcare Closure Leave benefit will give employees three months of extra parental leave. This new addition ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by Smarkets
The benefits offered by SmarketsPensionContract-based pension scheme with a 3% employer contribution, 5% employee contribution.PayPay transparency across the organisationSelf-set salariesFamily friendly and work-life balanceOn-call nanny, available to an employee up to five times a yearOnsite childcare room for bringing a child to workFlexible working available around core office hours of ...
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Case StudiesSmarkets backs employee mental health with suite of wellbeing benefits
Talent in the technology sector is highly sought after; like many industries, technology organisations are competing for the top applicants, and to do so means offering a competitive suite of benefits, appealing work or an attractive workplace culture. Financial technology start-up Smarkets claims all three.Susan Pinto, HR manager, says: “Our ...
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ArticleGoldman Sachs offers 36,000 employees 10 days of family leave
Global investment bank Goldman Sachs has offered all of its 36,000 employees globally 10 days of paid family leave, to help support them through the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.The benefit has been put in place to enable employees to care for family members, as needed, due to Covid-19 (Coronavirus) related illness ...
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ArticlePIB Group enhances parental leave for 1,300 employees
Insurance organisation PIB Group (PIB) has enhanced its paid parental leave benefits to support new parents, effective immediately.The amended policy will see all of its 1,300 employees entitled to 12 weeks' full pay. New mothers will benefit from 12 weeks full pay during maternity leave before they receive statutory maternity ...
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AnalysisHow employers can support bereaved parents in the workplace
Need to know:In addition to upcoming legislation giving a day-one right to bereavement leave, parents suffering the loss of a child should receive long-term support.Counselling and occupational health services can provide internal support structures, as can regular reviews of working practices, and flexible policies.Line managers should be trained to communicate ...
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OpinionSteven Wibberley: There is no time limit on support needed for bereavement
Bereavement is one of the most devastating things any of us will ever go through. For many employers, it can be difficult to know how to respond when an employee is bereaved, and how to ensure that the impact on both the individual and the organisation is minimised.Providing paid bereavement ...
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OpinionAnn Chalmers: Supporting bereaved employees to return to the workplace
Bereavement is one of the most common factors impacting employees’ performance at work. When events feel out of control, a supportive workplace can be an important source of structure and normality.However, the fear of returning to work and facing colleagues and a loss of confidence are not uncommon. Many bereaved ...
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Case StudiesZurich offers bereavement policies for 4,500 UK employees
In September 2019, insurance organisation Zurich implemented a range of family-friendly policies for its 4,500 UK employees. This included a new approach to bereavement leave.These policies mean that employees are able to take a month's paid leave if they lose a close relative, such as a child, parent, or partner. ...
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ArticleStarbucks will continue to pay employees not working during Coronavirus pandemic
American coffeehouse chain and coffee retailer Starbucks will pay its employees for the next 30 days, regardless of whether they choose to stay at home, to ensure any staff that come into work are not doing so because of financial pressures, and to help prevent the spread of Covid-19 (Coronavirus). ...
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ArticleFamilies First Coronavirus Response Act passed by US House of Representatives
The US government's House of Representatives has passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), aimed at providing support to those affected by the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.The new act, passed on 14 March 2020, is expected to become law after it goes to the US Senate.Under the new law, $500 ...
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ArticleGovernment to introduce neonatal pay and leave entitlements for working parents
Budget 2020: The government has announced today (11 March 2020) that it will create a new neonatal leave and pay entitlement for working parents.The benefit will be applicable to employees whose babies spend an extended period of time in neonatal care. It will provide up to 12 weeks paid leave ...