All Benefits for carers articles – Page 74
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EXCLUSIVE: BNP Paribas extends childcare service
BNP Paribas has extended the emergency childcare and carer service offered in its US banking division to its 3,500 permanent UK staff.The service provides up to 10 days’ emergency care for children in the form of a nanny or nursery place, or in-home care for dependent adults.The bank’s US offices ...
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Sodexo adds Smartphone access to childcare vouchers
Exclusive: Sodexo Motivation Solutions has launched a product that allows its childcare voucher scheme users to access their accounts using a Smartphone.Employees can access a mobile-enabled website which works on all handsets. They can log in, view their statement, make a payment, and check which payments are pending. The site ...
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CIPP research: Less than 10% of UK workers have option of flexible working
Less than 10% of UK employees have flexible working arrangements as part of their contract, according to research by the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP).The research also found that over one-third (36%) would like to be able to work from home under flexible working arrangements. Nearly half (43%) were ...
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Ernst & Young's maternity coaching webinars see increased take-up
Ernst & Young has seen a rise in the take-up of its maternity coaching webinars since they were launched in February 2011. The coaching covers all stages of pre and post-maternity, and help staff manage the transition in and out of the workplace successfully. So far, 500 employees have booked ...
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Friends Life harmonises family-friendly policies
Post-merger Friends Life has begun to harmonise family-friendly benefits and policies in an effort to retain working mothers.The financial services firm, created by the merger of Friends Provident and the life assurance business of Bupa and Axa UK, has been identifying heritage policies and benefits it wants to extend across ...
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Centrica, Dell and Jaguar Land Rover shortlisted for Working Families awards
Centrica, Dell, Deutsche Bank and Jaguar Land Rover are among the organisations short-listed for the Top Employers for Working Families awards.The annual awards from Working Families rates the family-friendly policies for working parents and carers offered by UK employers.The shortlist is:The best for flexible working awardAccentureAllianz Insurance UKCentricaChwaraeTegDell CorporationThe best ...
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My Family Care partners Australian provider Dial-an-Angel
My Family Care has partnered Australian provider Dial-an-Angel.The link-up will enable employers with offices in the UK and Australia to offer a consistent emergency care benefit to staff. Ben Black, founder and managing director of My Family Care, said: “A growing number of employers have realised helping staff with their ...
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American Express, Centrica and Deutsche Bank among winners of Top Employers for Working Families awards
American Express, Centrica and Deutsche Bank were among the top winners of the Top Employers for Working Families awards.The awards, founded by Working Families in partnership with the Institute for Employment Studies, recognises organisations across the UK that do the most to support the work-life balance needs of their employees.The ...
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Swansea Council switches childcare vouchers provider
The City and County of Swansea Council has switched providers of its childcare voucher scheme.The scheme, which is open to its 11,500 employees, allows staff to buy childcare vouchers worth up to £243 a month from their salary pre-tax and national insurance.The council previously had a scheme in place but ...
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Consultation on Modern Workplaces: Business groups react to proposals on flexible working and parental leave
Business groups react to the government's plans to introduce a new system of flexible parental leave and extend the right to request flexible working.The government’s Consultation on Modern Workplaces, which closed yesterday, proposes that all workers should be given the right to request flexible working, rather than just those who ...
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Bright Horizons partners with the NCT
Bright Horizons has partnered with the NCT to make materials available to employers to provide employees that are preparing for parenthood. The materials include information packs, courses and newsletter articles.Carole Edmond, managing director of Bright Horizons, said: “We know that so many of our nursery families have already benefited, through ...
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Apple Childcare Vouchers expands product offering
Apple Childcare Vouchers has expanded its product offering with the launch of Apple Employee Benefits (AEB).In addition to childcare vouchers, it will now provide discounts, health and wellbeing advice, reward and recognition, and salary sacrifice schemes to employers and their staff.Discounts are available on hotels, flights, clothing, insurance, books, gym ...
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Reabur research: Employers do not expect mothers to return after maternity leave
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of employers do not expect female employees to return to work after their maternity leave, according to research by Reabur.The survey of almost 2,000 organisations by the online independent HR consultancy also found that almost half (47%) believe this is because of previous experience.Furthermore, 23% of respondents ...
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CBI and Hays research: Employers are tuned into flexible working
Reward packages of the future will increasingly reflect the needs of employees, according to research conducted by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) and Hays.Employers are thinking more flexibly about reward but perks will be driven by employee demand more and more.The report Thinking positive: the 21st century employment relationship, ...
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Preston County Council halves childcare voucher administration costs
Preston County Council has halved the administration charge of its childcare voucher scheme after switching providers.The switch from Computershare Voucher Services to KiddiVouchers has enabled the council to decrease the cost of administration from 5% to 2.5%.Since the switch, which took place in May, the level of childcare voucher take-up ...
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CIPP research: Only 10% of employers will allow flexible working during Olympics
Just 10% of employers will allow staff to work flexibly during the 2012 Olympics, according to a poll by the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP).Less than half of the respondents said that they do not know if their employer will allow flexible working.Diana Bruce, senior policy liaison officer at ...
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Linda Holbeche: Would more flexible parental leave end reward inequality?
?In its Modern Workplaces consultation, the government is championing a radical new system of parental leave in which the existing 18 weeks’ maternity leave and pay will be protected, as will the current two weeks of paternity leave and pay. The remainder of maternity leave “should be reclassified as parental ...
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Ernst and Young launches maternity coaching scheme for staff
Ernst and Young has launched a maternity coaching scheme for its staff.The scheme, which has been taken up by over 240 employees, is part of the firm’s commitment to retain talented women and invest in their career development.Participants in the scheme receive four tailored coaching sessions, which take place before, ...
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Computershare Voucher Services research: Working parents unaware of all the uses of childcare vouchers
Just over half (56%) of working parents are unaware that childcare vouchers can be used to help with the cost of summer childcare including holiday sports courses and adventure camps, according to research by Computershare Voucher Services (CVS).The research, which surveyed more than 1,000 working parents, showed that only 1% ...
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Buyer's guide to childcare vouchers 2011
Focus on factsWhat are childcare vouchers?These are a government-backed scheme to help working parents to afford quality childcare. Depending on their income, parents can take up to £243 a month of childcare vouchers from their employer, free of tax and national insurance contributions. Vouchers can be used for a wide ...