All Benefits for carers articles – Page 54
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Article53% would prefer flexible-working arrangements to a pay rise
More than half (53%) of employee respondents would rather be offered flexible-working arrangements as a benefit than a 5% salary increase, according to research by My Family Care and Hydrogen.The competitive advantage of flexible and family-friendly working report, which surveyed 1,587 UK employees and 310 UK employers, also found that ...
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ArticleEY offers flexible working to support work-life balance and business performance
Employee Benefits Live 2016: EY promotes flexible working among its employees in order to support a high-performance culture and a diverse workforce.Addressing delegates in his keynote speech at Olympia National, London, Steve Varley, UK chairman and managing partner at EY, spoke about why a diverse workforce and an inclusive culture ...
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ArticleSiemens builds family-friendly culture through promotion of shared parental leave
Employee Benefits Live 2016: Siemens promotes shared parental leave to all of its employees.With a largely male employee population, representing 78% of its 14,000 UK employees, the introduction of shared parental leave (SPL) in Siemens was quite a cultural challenge.Addressing delegates at Employee Benefits Live 2016, Wendy Jepson, HR policy ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Scottish Power to discuss performance management at Employee Benefits Live
Scottish Power will discuss the organisation’s experience of implementing an online performance management system at Employee Benefits Live 2016.Gillian Thomson (pictured), reward manager at Scottish Power, will speak alongside Evan Davidge, head of reward at Arup, in the session titled Reinvigorating the performance management process on Wednesday 12 October.Thomson will ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Central government to launch online benefits platform
EXCLUSIVE: The UK central government is to launch a benefits platform to provide 418,000 civil servants with online access to their employee benefits package.The bespoke platform has been developed by Edenred, which has been appointed the sole provider of employee benefits to UK government staff through the Employee Services framework, ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by Misys
The workplace benefits offered by Misys include:PensionA group personal pension open to all employees. Misys offers a matching contribution scheme if the employee contributes up to 6%, 8% or 10%, depending on job level.Group riskGroup income protection: employer-paid, the default level is 75%, and employees can flex up or down.Critical ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Working Families to discuss shared parental leave at Employee Benefits Live
Work-life balance charity Working Families will discuss what organisations can do to increase take up of shared parental leave at Employee Benefits Live 2016.Sarah Jackson (pictured), chief executive at Working Families, will speak alongside Wendy Jepson, HR policy and compliance partner at Siemens, in a session titled How to boost ...
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ArticleDeloitte and Ministry of Justice among Top Employers for Working Families
American Express, Deloitte, Ministry of Justice, and Southdown Housing Association are among the Top 10 Employers for Working Families, according to work-life balance charity Working Families.The rankings are based on Working Families' Top employers for working families benchmark report 2016, in association with Computershare, which examines how organisations support the ...
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Article59% feel their employer supports their work-life balance
More than half (59%) of respondents believe their employer supports them in achieving a good work-life balance, according to research by Barnett Waddingham.Its Why BWell report, which surveyed 300 employees, also found that 24% of respondents earning less than £20,000 believe that their job is detrimental to their health, compared ...
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Article66% of managers believe the average retirement age will increase in their organisation
Two thirds (66%) of manager respondents believe the average age of retirement in their organisation will increase over the next five to 10 years, according to research by Axa PPP Healthcare.Its Supporting fuller working working lives: how organisations can embrace older employees and those with caring responsibilities white paper, which ...
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8: Expedia to discuss award-winning workplace culture at Employee Benefits Live
Online travel organisation Expedia will join Glassdoor to present the opening keynote address at Employee Benefits Live 2016.Con Marney, manager, talent acquisition at Expedia, will speak alongside Diarmuid Russell, head of international at Glassdoor, on day one of the London-based event. Marney will discuss the steps that Expedia has taken ...
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ArticleShared parental leave and gender pay are on the agenda at Employee Benefits Live
Shared parental leave, the gender pay gap, pensions communication and healthcare strategies are just a few of the key issues that will be discussed during the conference streams at Employee Benefits Live 2016.The two-day event, running between Tuesday 11 October and Wednesday 12 October 2016 at Olympia National, will highlight ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Hutchison 3G to discuss benefits technology at Employee Benefits Live
Hutchison 3G will discuss the impact of technology on employee benefits at Employee Benefits Live 2016.Paul Bissell (pictured), head of reward at Hutchison 3G, will take to the stage on day two of the London-based event, as part of the benefits technology conference stream.In a session entitled 'Reward and benefits ...
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ArticleDeloitte US introduces paid family leave programme
Audit, tax services and consultancy organisation Deloitte has introduced a new family leave programme for its US-based staff, allowing employees to take up to 16 weeks of fully-paid leave to provide care for family.The programme, which launched in September 2016, takes a broad caregiving approach, helping to support staff who ...
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AnalysisWhat will caring policies of the future look like?
Need to know:A formal caring policy can help to bolster support for carers in the workplace.Benefits such as an employee assistance programme (EAP) or childcare vouchers can be used to support an existing caring policy.Flexible-working arrangements, as well as paid or unpaid leave, are popular aspects of a successful caring ...
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Case StudiesKPMG uses employee-led networks to drive caring initiatives
Audit, tax and advisory organisation KPMG utilises a range of measures to put employees in the driving seat when it comes to formulating and structuring initiatives that support working carers and parents within the workplace. Of the organisation’s 12,000 total employees across 22 UK-based sites, 6,483 have declared they are ...
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OpinionKatherine Wilson: Ageing population intensifies need for caring policies
One in nine workers in the UK care for a family member or friend who is older, disabled or ill, according to the 2011 Census. The pressures of juggling work and care, without the right support from employers or local services, have forced millions of people to give up work ...
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Case StudiesCountrywide aligns benefits and reward to help boost growth
Countrywide Group, the UK’s largest property services group, began the task of building a reward function in September 2014, when it drafted in Neil Goodwin, head of reward.He joined on the brink of a group-wide overhaul at the FTSE 250-listed group, which until then had just an operational human resource ...
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ArticleDentsu Aegis Network enhances shared parental pay
Dentsu Aegis Network has launched enhanced shared parental pay for working parents.The new policy, which is available for all UK staff following a qualifying period, mirrors the advertising organisation’s current maternity and adoption leave offerings, entitling co-parents, regardless of gender, to take up to 20 weeks of paid leave. It ...
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Article36% offer global parental leave policy
Just over one-third (36%) of respondents worldwide have a global parental leave policy covering multiple types of leave, according to research by Mercer.Its Global parental leave report, which surveyed 1,200 organisations globally, of which 112 are based in the UK, also found that 64% of respondents provide maternity leave for ...