All articles by Debbie Lovewell-Tuck – Page 10
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid rebrokes employee discounts
This year, like everyone, we are faced with a big challenge. We have made quite a lot of redundancies, and the people who are left are having to do more work for less money, we are not giving any pay rises, and we cannot add any new benefits. So, how ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Adjusting to a new wave of home working
Prime minister Boris Johnson’s announcement earlier this week declaring that employees should return to working from home if they are able to do so represented a sharp u-turn from his previous focus on returning staff to offices around the UK. With some organisations in the process of returning staff to ...
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OpinionMatthew Lawrence: How technology has a role to play in improving employees' resilience
You have got that call to return, a dozen urgent emails to respond to, a podcast you have been meaning to listen to, 8,764 steps still to walk, your latest online credit card statement to pay… and it is not even 9am. Know the feeling?On a day-to-day basis, benefits are ...
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OpinionDebbie Lovewell-Tuck: Boosting resilience remains key priority
As our Resilience Week, in association with Aon, draws to a close, it is time to reflect on some of the trends and issues currently shaping employers’ strategies in this area.There are few that would dispute that 2020 has been a challenging year. Very few of us are likely to ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Recognising opportunities for reinvention
For many of us, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought with it a series of challenges. What is less often discussed, however, is the opportunities that have also arisen as a consequence. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the business world, particularly when it comes to how we work how ...
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AnalysisEmployee Benefits Healthcare Research 2020
Click to download the Employee Benefits Healthcare research 2020.The Employee Benefits Healthcare research 2020 was conducted in August 2020 among readers of employeebenefits.co.uk.This report is aimed at helping compensation, reward and benefits professionals understand the key issues driving current healthcare and wellbeing beneifts strategies, as well as issues shaping future ...
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OpinionHoma Wilson: Employers need to be aware of the mental wellbeing pressures caused by the pandemic
There is little doubt that the global Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic will have ongoing mental health implications for the population. Research undertaken by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), The mental health effects of the first two months of lockdown and social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, published ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid covers performance management
Without even asking, Big Bad Boss has agreed to lend me to another department. I am to be assigned to the organisation development team, which for me is pretty much like joining the enemy. Madeline, who leads (although in her case perhaps ‘administrates’ better describes it) the performance management programme, ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Supporting grief during a pandemic
Sunday 30 August marks National Grief Awareness Day in the UK. While grief is a very present issue for thousands at any one time, this year may be particularly poignant for many given the more-than 46,000 deaths that have occurred as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Should employers act on employees' commuting concerns?
Here at Employee Benefits, the numerous press releases we receive on a daily basis can be a good temperature check of the issues currently facing employers and their workforces. Not surprisingly, as the UK continues to open up post-lockdown, the focus for many has been on the return to workplaces ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: What does the current jobs market mean for benefits?
What a week it has been; in the space of just seven days, Office for National Statistics’ figures reported 730,000 fewer individuals are on payrolls since March 2020 and the UK economy officially entered recession.For the hundreds of thousands of individuals that have entered the UK jobs market, competition for ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid arranges crisis pensions training
The way Big Bad Boss is carrying on you would think there was a global financial crisis. Well, there is a global financial crisis, but surely this is a time for leaders to calmly steer us to a safer place, not to run around like lost children. Sadly, the Higher ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Should staff expect to be paid during quarantine?
On Saturday 25 July 2020, the UK government announced that, from 26 July, anyone entering the UK from mainland Spain, the Balearics or the Canary Islands would be required to quarantine for 14 days, following a rise in cases in Covid-19 in these regions.At the time numerous Britons were already ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: When should staff return to the office?
Have you returned to your usual workplace yet? While some businesses, such as Royal Bank of Scotland, have announced an extension to their remote-working policies, others are preparing for more employees to return to the office following the government’s announcement that employers can bring staff back to the workplace if ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Is the UK truly ready for a new long-term way of working?
Over the past few months, much has been written (by myself included) around what the sudden move to remote and flexible ways of working could mean in the long term. As some organisations now begin to reopen their doors, while others extend office closures, these conversations are beginning to move ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Is the government offering enough support?
In this week’s mini-Budget, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced the government’s plans to introduce a job retention bonus to support employers with returning staff to work following furlough. Under the terms of the scheme, for every employee that returns to work and is paid above the lower earnings limit of £520 ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Preparing for life post-lockdown
Saturday 4 July will see a large number of businesses open for the first time in several months as the government continues to ease lockdown. Overall, it has been estimated that nearly two-thirds of Britons will return to the workplace by the end of August.While this is undoubtedly a positive ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid considers pay cuts
You might have noticed that occasionally I step away from benefits to look at compensation instead. I rather like these opportunities. After the complexity of pensions regulation and global healthcare differences, base pay is, well, pretty basic. Or at least it was.Only a couple of months ago, we agreed pay ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Is flexible working becoming the new normal?
How has the Covid-19 pandemic affected working arrangements in your organisation?As many organisations, particularly in the retail sector, have begun to open their doors again this week, and others prepare to do so, many businesses are questioning what changes to working arrangements resulting from the pandemic and lockdown could mean ...
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ArticleThe top 10 most read stories: 4 June - 11 June 2020
The top 10 most read stories on employeebenefits.co.uk between 4-11 June 2020 were:Parents returning to work after maternity and paternity leave eligible for furlough pay.Nissan consults on closing defined benefit pension scheme for 1,800 staff.Reed Smith introduces mandatory four-day working week.Welsh social care and ancillary staff to receive £500 reward ...