All Benefits for carers articles – Page 79
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Wider Plan enhances offers to its childcare voucher users
Benefits provider Wider Plan will enhance the offering available to users of its Kiddivoucher childcare voucher service in time for the Christmas season.The full Wider Wallet discounts scheme will be on offer to the childcare voucher users among the provider’s 5,000 employers as of 1 December.The discounts scheme, which includes ...
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Emergency childcare is worth the investment
If you read nothing else, read this... Emergency childcare gives employees access to nannies, childminders, nurseries and school holiday clubs when their regular childcare arrangements break down. Employers should determine which type of back-up care is best suited to their employee population. The service is effective in protecting productivity, attracting ...
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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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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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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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EXCLUSIVE: Mayer Brown rolls out emergency care plan in National Work-Life Week
Law firm Mayer Brown has introduced an emergency care scheme as part of a range of benefits events held during National Work-Life Week, from 26-30 September.The scheme includes emergency childcare, holiday care and care for dependent adults. In its first week, 5% of the firm’s nearly 600 employees signed up ...
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EXCLUSIVE: NHS trust switches to online childcare vouchers
Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has switched its childcare vouchers provider, moving to an online scheme with iPhone accessibility.Take-up in the new scheme, provided by Busy Bees Benefits, has risen to 119 staff from just under 100 previously.The trust has offered childcare vouchers to its 2,500 staff for several years ...
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Leicestershire County Council switches childcare voucher providers
Exclusive: Leicestershire County Council has switched childcare voucher providers.The council switched to Kiddivouchers from RSM Tenon after the latter provider discontinued its childcare services.Davendra Rana, benefits coordinator at Leicestershire County Council, said: “We have received good feedback so far. Once an employees’ payment has come out they will receive a ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...