All Benefits for carers articles – Page 37
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by CGI UK
The benefits offered by CGI UK:Pensions, pay and group riskA contract-based group personal pension (GPP), defined contribution (DC) scheme is used for auto-enrolment when employees reach two months of service. Minimum contributions are 9%, with at least 3% contributed by employees and 6% provided by CGI UK. This increases depending ...
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ArticleBarclays, Centrica and Financial Ombudsman Service recognised as family-friendly employers
Banking organisation Barclays (pictured), energy business Centrica and the Financial Ombudsman Service are among the employers recognised at the Working Families Best Practice Awards 2019.Now in their 10th year, the Working Families Best Practice Awards, organised by work-life balance charity Working Families, recognises employers across 12 different categories, celebrating organisations ...
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ArticleEstonia offers longest duration of paid leave for mothers
Of the 41 countries across the Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) and the European Union (EU), Estonia offers the best maternity leave package, providing 85 weeks of leave at full pay, according to research by charity Unicef.The report, Are the world’s richest countries family-friendly? Policy in the OECD ...
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Case StudiesUniversity of St Andrews offers employees a range of sustainable travel options
Keen to support its employees with environmentally-friendly travel options, the University of St Andrews introduced an electric bike scheme in July 2018.Funded by Sestrans, the regional transport authority, the scheme allows employees to borrow an e-bike free of charge for up to 24 hours in order to make journeys during ...
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ArticleDubai International Financial Centre introduces paternity leave
The Dubai International Finance Centre (DIFC) has enacted a new employment law, providing around 24,000 financial services employees with access to five days of statutory paternity leave.The DIFC is a financial ecosystem consisting of professionals employed across more than 2,000 organisations. Considered the leading financial hub for the Middle East, ...
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ArticleHalf believe benefits are not meeting the needs of multigenerational workforce
Half (50%) of employers do not think their benefits offering is meeting the needs of all generations within their workforce, with 89% believing that they will need to change their package to suit future generations entering the workforce, according to research by Aon.The Benefits and trends survey 2019, which polled ...
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ArticleTarget enhances family-friendly benefits for 350,000 employees
US-based retailer Target has enhanced the suite of family-friendly benefits offered to its 350,000 employees, including implementing a new paid family leave policy.The organisation has introduced the benefit enhancements in order to support its multigenerational workforce with their caring responsibilities, whether this is for children, spouses and domestic partners or ...
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ArticleThe Bahamas Telecommunications Company enhances parental leave
The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) has enhanced its paid parental leave polices for mothers, fathers and those who become parents through adoption or surrogacy.The organisation has extended paid maternity leave by three weeks, offering female employees up to 16 weeks of fully paid leave. Paid paternity leave has increased by ...
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ArticleCIPD pilots return-to-work programme to support parents in Yorkshire and the Humber
The Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) has announced that it will pilot a new return-to-work programme to support parents living in Yorkshire and the Humber who wish to re-enter the workplace.The CIPD Parent Returner Programme, funded by the Government Equalities Office (GEO), has been designed to support parents ...
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ArticleConsumers’ association recommends new mothers receive a £2,000 pension bonus
Consumers’ association and charity Which? has recommended that new mothers receive a £2,000 pension bonus to help mitigate the gender pensions gap.In its Top up the pots: Achieving adequate retirement incomes with automatic enrolment report, conducted with the Pensions Policy Institute and published in June 2019, Which? proposesd that new ...
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ArticleSouthwark Council introduces paid leave for foster carers
Southwark Council has introduced a new leave policy to enable all staff who foster a child to receive an additional five days of paid annual leave in order to meet their care commitments.The new policy, launched on and immediately effective from 20 May 2019, was introduced as part of the ...
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ArticleJPMorgan Chase to pay $5 million settlement in parental leave case
Investment banking organisation JPMorgan Chase is to pay a $5 million (£3.9 million) settlement in a class action parental leave case involving fathers who claim they were denied the opportunity to take additional paid parental leave as primary caregivers.The proposed settlement, which has been arranged with The American Civil Liberties ...
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ArticleKavitha’s keynote: Employee benefits keep one in six at work after 65
Around seven in 10 UK employees expect to work past the age of 65, while almost two in five anticipate retiring after they turn 75, research from Canada Life Group Insurance revealed earlier this week.More than 70% of those set to continue working beyond their 65th birthday attribute this to ...
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OpinionLindsey Hunt: Can an employer ban working from home?
In March 2019, city bank BNY Mellon came under fire for announcing it was putting a stop to working from home. Its employees vented that this was a huge step backwards, with issues such as mental health and childcare among the key concerns. The backlash led to the bank retracting ...
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ArticleCourt of Appeal rules that shared parental and maternity leaves are not comparable
The Court of Appeal has ruled that male employees taking shared parental leave cannot be compared to female staff on maternity leave, because new mothers are required to use their time off, in part, to recover from pregnancy and childbirth.The Court of Appeal issued its judgement on Friday 24 May ...
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Case StudiesGoCompare uses enhanced policies and open communications to address care gaps
In April 2018, financial services comparison website GoCompare introduced enhanced parental leave policies for its 240 Wales-based employees, enabling those taking maternity, shared parental or adoption leave to receive up to nine months at full pay, and those taking paternity leave to take four weeks at full pay.A year on, ...
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AnalysisBeyond pay: Gender differences in the workplace
Need to know:While organisations are focusing on addressing the gender pay gap, they may be missing some of the underlying discrepancies that exist alongside it.Wage differences and the higher likelihood of career breaks among women can influence financial wellbeing and retirement incomes.Progression and career development are impacted not only by ...
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ArticleMore than half feel that fathers are treated equally to mothers in their workplace
More than half (56%) of fathers believe they are treated equally to mothers at their organisations, according to research by online community lifestyle platform Daddilife and professional services firm Deloitte.Its The millennial dad at work report, which questioned 2,002 UK fathers aged between 24 and 40 in March and April ...
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ArticlePWC Australia to pay superannuation contributions while staff are on parental leave
Global professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) is to pay full superannuation contributions for up to 12 months for employees in Australia on parental leave.The new policy, applicable for the organisation’s 8,000 staff based in Australia, will see PWC make full superannuation contributions into an employee’s workplace retirement savings for up ...
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ArticleTwo-fifths are most interested in receiving paid annual leave as employee benefit
Two-fifths (44%) of employee respondents are most interested to receive between 22 and 35 days of paid annual leave as an employee benefit, according to research by insurance organisation Aviva.Its survey of 2,011 UK employees and 502 managers with recruitment responsibilities further found that other workplace benefits staff are most ...