All Benefits for carers articles – Page 56
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ArticleIndiana University introduces six weeks of paid parental leave
US-based Indiana University (IU) has introduced a new paid parental leave policy for staff, which will allow eligible employees to take up to six weeks of fully-paid leave.The new policy, which comes into effect on 1 July 2017, will enable both mothers and fathers whose child is born or adopted ...
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ArticleRachael Saunders: How can employers support older staff in the workplace?
By 2022, it is estimated that there will be a skills gap of 7.5 million jobs, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's March 2012 report Managing a healthy ageing workforce: a national business imperative. To address this, businesses urgently need to encourage and enable older people to ...
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ArticleAndrew West: How can employers support older staff in the workplace?
The government’s Fuller working lives strategy identifies the need for employers to support older workers, not just to stay in work, but to continue developing, learning and changing jobs, even changing careers.The issues it raises are myriad, but the trap is in assuming that as employers we can somehow consider ...
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ArticleBrian Beach: How can employers support older staff in the workplace?
The need to identify policies and strategies to retain older workers will grow ever more crucial into the future as the age profile of the labour market changes. The missing million: recommendations for action research, published in April 2015, by the International Longevity Centre – UK (ILC-UK) in our Missing ...
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ArticlePalm Beach County to introduce six weeks' paid parental leave for staff
Palm Beach County is to introduce paid parental leave for state staff.The new benefit, which will come into effect at the end of April, will enable eligible employees to take six weeks of parental leave at full pay for the birth, adoption or fostering of a child. The benefit will ...
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Article52% of fathers would take up shared parental leave
More than half (52%) of respondents who are fathers would take advantage of shared parental leave (SPL), according to research by Working Families.Its survey of 358 fathers also found that a quarter (25%) of respondents that would make use of shared parental leave would do so because they and their ...
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ArticleAccenture sees 12% of new fathers take shared parental leave
More than one in 10 (12%) new fathers at management consulting and professional services organisation Accenture are currently taking shared parental leave.More than 150 employees from all career levels and areas of the business have taken shared parental leave since the government introduced the policy in April 2015.Shared parental leave, ...
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ArticleNorthern Trust introduces childcare advice benefit for London staff
Global financial services organisation Northern Trust has launched a new childcare support and advice benefit for its 1,600 London-based staff.The benefit, provided by Parental Choice, will offer assistance to employees with childcare responsibilities based at the organisation’s London office. This includes tailored childcare searches for all ages across all forms ...
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OpinionSusan Ball: What do the changes to salary sacrifice mean for employers?
With publication of the Finance Bill, the final legislation around changes to salary sacrifice is now available, and considerably more pages have been added. Given the volume of additional legislative text, coupled with the short timeframe between publication and the 6 April 2017 effective date, employers face significant practical difficulties ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by Holiday Extras
The workplace benefits on offer at Holiday Extras include:Pension:Group personal pension (GPP) plan, with 3% employee contribution. Employer contributes 3% for the majority of staff and 11% for directors and associate directors. Employees can contribute via salary sacrifice. All employees are eligible after they have passed probation, but must opt ...
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ArticleHong Kong Broadband Network introduces grandparental leave
Telecommunications organisation Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) has introduced a grandparental leave policy.The scheme, which came into effect on 1 April 2017, allows Hong Kong-based employees to take three days of leave when welcoming a new grandchild. To take advantage of the policy, staff are required to submit a family ...
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Article41% want to receive childcare vouchers through salary sacrifice
Two-fifths (41%) of respondents want to receive childcare vouchers via a salary sacrifice arrangement as part of their employee benefits package, according to research by Sodexo Benefits and Rewards Services.Its survey of 1,000 employees also found that 51% of respondents want to contribute to their workplace pension through a salary ...
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ArticleTexas-based university to launch new parental and adoption benefits
Texas-based Baylor University is introducing paid parental leave and an adoption assistance programme for its staff and faculty members.The new parental leave policy, which will be available to staff immediately upon joining the university, will provide both male and female full-time employees with up to four weeks of paid leave ...
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ArticleThe tax and legislation changes impacting reward from April 2017
Chancellor Philip Hammond used both the Autumn Statement 2016 and the Spring Budget 2017 to confirm a number of measures that will affect the pay and benefits landscape. Below is a round up of these measures, along with other tax and legislation changes coming into effect from April 2017:National minimum ...
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Article50% provide benefits to assist LGBT staff with family care and planning
Half (50%) of global employer respondents provide benefits that support lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) employees with family care and planning, such as fertility treatment, surrogacy, adoption, or parental leave, according to research by Mercer.Its LGBT benefits around the world survey, which surveyed 680 organisations across 50 countries, also ...
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ArticleHow will the Spring Budget 2017 impact pay and benefits?
Chancellor Philip Hammond (pictured) delivered his first and last Spring Budget speech to the House of Commons on Wednesday 8 March 2017. Below is a summary of the key announcements that could impact employers’ pay and benefits strategies:The government’s tax-free childcare policy will be rolled out to parents with children ...
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ArticleJeremy Davies: What more should employers be doing to support working fathers?
For many years, employers have understood that to get the best out of their female staff, they need to find ways of helping them combine work and motherhood. More recently, a few enlightened employers have started to think about how they can support working dads too.But there is still a ...
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Article12% rank health cash plans as their most valued benefit
Just over one in 10 (12%) respondents rank health cash plans as their most valued employee benefit, according to research by Willis Towers Watson.Its 2017 Willis Towers Watson employee benefits and wellbeing index, which surveyed 1,123 UK full and part-time employees aged between 18 and 64 years old, also found ...
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ArticlePaula Cunnington: What more should employers be doing to support working fathers?
Last year, when we introduced 20 weeks of enhanced shared parental pay at Dentsu Aegis Network to match our maternity and adoption offering, we knew not much would change in the short term. We wanted to do the right thing and set a positive example in the media and advertising ...
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ArticleMegan Jarvie: What more should employers be doing to support working fathers?
The Family and Childcare Trust currently runs the Young Dads Collective (YDC), which works with young dads aged 25 and under to effect change and raise awareness of the specific challenges young men face during their transition from young person to young parent. Young dads are almost invisible in government ...