All Benefits for carers articles – Page 36
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ArticleTSB introduces 70 hours paid carer leave for 7,000 employees
Banking organisation TSB is introducing a new carer policy, giving its 7,000 employees up to 70 hours paid leave a year.The new benefit coming into effect yesterday (8 June 2020) allows employees the flexibility to look after a dependent, family member or friend who has a disability, mental or physical ...
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ArticleAmazon provides emergency family care for 650,000 employees
Technology giant Amazon is offering subsidised family care to 650,000 full and part-time employees in the US.The benefit, provided by Care.com, will provide an employee with up to 10 days of subsidised emergency back-up child or adult care between 4 June 2020 and 2 October 2020.Amazon employees will have to ...
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ArticleInvesco enhances parental benefits for 1,692 employees
Global investment organisation Invesco has enhanced its paid parental leave scheme across Europe, the Middle East and Africa region (EMEA) for its 1,692 employees.Under the new policy, all parents regardless of gender will be entitled to 26 continuous weeks of paid leave at their full salary within 12 months of ...
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ArticlePrysmian Group launches global maternity policy
Italian manufacturer Prysmian Group has launched a new policy to support any of its 30,000 employees globally who wish to take maternity leave. The policy offers 12 weeks fully paid leave, covering both birth biological mothers and legal adoptive mothers, and ensures employees in all 50 countries where the statutory ...
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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 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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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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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 ...