All Benefits for carers articles – Page 87
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Gissings launches childcare voucher product
Gissings Advisory Services is launching a new childcare voucher scheme to market.The salary sacrifice product will be marketed to its more than 500 clients and entitles employees to tax and national insurance free childcare at any Ofsted or DFES registered/approved childcare provider. The vouchers can be provided electronically and are ...
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Childcare - definitions - Emergency childcare
Employers are increasingly providing emergency childcare. This can be as basic as providing staff with access to telephone numbers for nurseries through an employee assistance programme, right through to providing access to a nursery.Providing emergency child care can help to reduce absence or leave being taken at short notice.Providing access ...
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Childcare - definitions - On-site nurseries
On-site workplace nursery schemes are supplied by employers to offer working parents another affordable childcare option. Child care vouchers may be used to pay for this facility.Because of the capital expenditure involved in providing onsite child care nurseries, it is an option that tends to be more suitable for larger ...
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Childcare - definitions - Childcare vouchers
Childcare vouchers are a flexible and tax-efficient way to cover child care costs for the employee.Employees can agree to sacrifice up to £55 a week or up to £243 a month from their pre-tax salary for vouchers redeemable at any approved childcare provider. The employee makes tax and national insurance ...
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In-laws can be relatives under extended Flexible Working regulations
The definition of relative under the Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) Regulations 2002 has been extended to include carers' son-in-laws and daughter-in-laws.The regulations, which were extended to offer the right to request flexible working to carers of adults in April this year, originally omitted both sons and daughters-in-law from ...
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McAlpine offers staff access to childcare services
Alfred McAlpine has launched a service to give its 10,000 employees access to emergency care for both child and elderly dependants with the aim of enabling them to balance work-life commitments.Employees must register to use the eldercare service and undergo an assessment of their elderly dependant's needs, at a cost ...
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Employers under pressure to offer breastfeeding breaks at work
Employers are to be petitioned to offer to breastfeeding breaks for new mothers during the working day.The official launch of the Breastfeeding Manifesto will take place on Wednesday, when campaigners will request that the government introduces legislation to protect mothers who breastfeed babies in public and at work.Number four of ...
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HR-related legislation coming into effect in April 2007
Several legislative changes that employers must comply with come into effect this month, including:From 1 April: Enhanced parental rights under the Work and Families Act 2006 which apply where the expected week of childbirth or date of adoption is on or after 1 April 2007.From 2 April: Workplaces in Northern ...
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Mothers embrace flexible working arrangements
Flexible working is considered the benefit most likely to aid working mothers, according to a survey of HR and finance managers. More than two-thirds of respondents to the Workplace survey by Robert Half International favoured this method, with part-time hours offered by 64% of respondents as a means of encouraging ...
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A guide to childcare benefits
With a number of childcare options in the market, employers should choose wisely, says Jenny KeefeCase studies: The Gambling Commission, Goldman SachsArticle in full'Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?', is the clarion call often made by many employees, but parents may have particular ...
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Gwynedd County Council launches childcare vouchers
Gwynedd County Council has launched a childcare voucher scheme.The plan, which went live at the start of this month, is open to the organisation's 7,000 employees.Stephen Barnard, human resources policy manager, said take up had initially been slow, but thought this may be due to launching the scheme while many ...
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Gaining a return on inventment on childcare perks
Costing the return on childcare provisions is complex, but employers have an added impetus if staff take bogus absences to look after kids, says Nick GoldingCase study: Getty ImagesArticle in fullChildcare benefits frequently top the lists of employers' most commonly-offered perks. According to the Employee Benefits/Towers Perrin Flexible benefits research ...
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New proposals for parental leave
Employers need to consider arrangements for fathers, says Alison ColemanCase study: Mouchel ParkmanArticle in fullAmong the raft of new measures outlined in the Work and Families Act 2006 are proposals to extend paid maternity leave and allow working fathers to take up a share of it.This has provoked the usual ...
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British Legion plans to offer childcare vouchers
The Royal British Legion plans to offer childcare vouchers to its 1,000 employees by April. Alison Solomon, assistant HR officer, said: "We've had a few enquiries and requests, and thought it was a good thing to do."
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Nottinghamshire County Council launches childcare vouchers
Nottinghamshire County Council is launching a childcare voucher scheme to its 27,000 employees.From May, staff will be able to request up to £243 per month (or £55 per week) in childcare vouchers which, subject to individual circumstances, could save employees up to £1,196 per year on childcare. The vouchers will ...
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Childcare and flexible working fail to retain female managers
The number of female senior managers in UK businesses has sharply fallen in the last five years despite the use of flexible working arrangements and childcare benefits.According to the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) Monks gender data for FTSE350 posts, the number of senior female managers gas fallen by 40% over the last ...
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Employers must consider staff on maternity leave for promotion
Female employees could sue their employer for sex discrimination if they fall behind a queue for promotion while on maternity leave.The High Court decision in a case brought by the Equal Opportunities Commission (EOC) ruled that the government had failed to comply with its obligation to implement the 2002 Equal ...
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What could extended flexible hours mean for employers?
Extensions to the overall mechanics of flexible working are a daunting possibility for employersJust as employers are preparing for next month's extension of the right to request flexible working to carers of adults, under the terms of the Work and Families Act 2006, children's minister Beverley Hughes has come out ...
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How to manage working parents
Why should employers consider the needs of working parents? What should be covered in a strategy for working parents? What benefits are available to assist working parents? How do childcare vouchers work? What are the implications of providing nursery care? Preparing for an emergency How to help working parents achieve ...
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Government minister backs flexible working for all staff
All British employees should be entitled to work flexibly, according to the Children's Minister Beverley Hughes.In an essay titled Children, parenting and families: Renewing the progressive story, which is included in Politics for the new generation: the progressive moment published by the Institute for Public Policy Research, she argued that ...