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ArticleFour in five UK employees suffer from stress, a quarter of these find it unmanageable
The majority of employees in the UK (80%) are suffering from stress, and over a quarter of those (28%) consider their work-related stress to be unmanageable, according to research by health insurance organisation Cigna.The survey, which drew on 14,467 online interviews across 23 countries, highlighted the UK as the most ...
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ArticleThe top 10 most read stories: 4-10 October 2018
The top 10 most read stories on www.employeebenefits.co.uk between 4 and 10 October 2018 were: EXCLUSIVE: Cisco adopts wide family-centric organisational culture to support staffSky launches Frazzled Cafe meetings for 7,500 UK employeesEXCLUSIVE: Unilever chatbot to transform HR services in 106 countriesCourt of Appeal hearing set for Asda shop-floor workers' ...
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ArticleGovernment launches race at work charter to tackle ethnic workplace disparities
The government has announced a 'race at work charter' containing a series of measures to tackle ethnic disparities in the workplace.Developed in partnership with Business in the Community (BITC), the charter sets out a number of principles and actions for businesses to commit to publicly. A number of high-profile organisations ...
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A fifth of employees attended work while suffering mental health issues last year
More than a fifth (22%) of employees went into work when feeling mentally unwell last year, according to research by Canada Life Group Insurance.The figure, from a survey of 1,001 UK employees carried out in August 2018, shows a rise in mental health presenteeism by 4% since 2016.Paul Avis, marketing ...
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ArticleAramark launches campaign encouraging staff to take 15-minute stress-free breaks
Food services organisation Aramark Northern Europe has launched a month-long mental wellbeing campaign encouraging employers and employees to take 15-minute breaks during their working day.Aramark's 'Take15' campaign, which will run through October 2018, is aimed at the organisation's 18,000 employees in northern Europe, as well as clients and customers. The ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: JLT Group launches holistic wellbeing programme for UK employees
EXCLUSIVE: Benefits provider JLT Group has launched a wellness programme focusing on the mental, physical and financial wellbeing of its 3,900 employees in the UK.The programme includes the implementation of mental health first aiders across all 19 offices nationwide, accompanied by mental health and stress awareness training for line managers.The ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: ACCA launches mental health resilience workshops for wellbeing champions
EXCLUSIVE: Global professional accountancy body ACCA has launched pilot mental health resilience workshops for selected staff in London and Glasgow.The workshops, the first of which took place on 19 September 2018, offer advice on the mental and physical steps employees can take to promote wellbeing in the workplace. They are ...
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ArticleCourt of Appeal hearing set for Asda shop-floor workers' pay claim rulings
A Court of Appeal hearing will begin on 10 October over Employment Tribunal (ET) and Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) pay claim rulings that Asda shop-floor workers have comparable roles to their colleagues in the supermarket’s distribution centres.The three-day hearing concerns the first of three stages in the equal pay case. ...
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ArticleIndustrial Tribunal awards £3,000 to man told he was ‘too old’ to apply for job
Image credit: Equality Commission NIAn Industrial Tribunal has awarded £3,000 to a 63-year-old man from Antrim who was told he was too old to apply for a job as a store person and van driver by Spring and Airbrake Ireland.The Tribunal found Patrick Matier (pictured), whose case was supported by ...
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ArticleLippert Components fined $338,151 for overtime pay violations
Indiana-based vehicle parts manufacturing organisation Lippert Components has been ordered to pay $338,151 (£258,959.42) in overtime back pay and liquidated damages following an investigation by the US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD).Investigators uncovered violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) relating to 1,199 current and former ...
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ArticleTwo-thirds of managers put organisation above staff wellbeing
Although 61% of employees have experienced a mental health issue due to work, or in which work was a contributing factor, 64% of managers put their organisation’s interests above staff wellbeing at some point, and 12% do so every day, according to a workplace mental health report by Business in ...
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ArticleMore than half of workplaces do not encourage employees to exercise
Three in five (57%) workplaces do not offer benefits or programmes to encourage employees to exercise, according to Opinium research.Two online surveys of 2,007 and 2,000 UK adults, in August and September respectively, also revealed that one in five (22%) of organisations offer a cycle-to-work scheme, while 14% provide subsidised ...
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ArticleUber drivers set for 24-hour strike over workers' rights
Uber drivers in London, Birmingham and Nottingham are to stage a 24-hour strike over worker's rights from 1pm today and will hold protests outside the organisation’s offices in each of the three cities.The industrial action has been called by the United Private Hire Drivers (UPHD) branch of the Independent Workers ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Stephens Scown charts successful employee engagement journey
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Law firm Stephens Scown has implemented an employee engagement strategy that has seen it ranked for the last four years in the Sunday Times Best 100 companies to work for.In a session titled ‘Engaging multi-generational workplaces’, Lucy Palmer, director of HR at Stephens Scown, described the ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Building an inclusive culture must start from the top
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Building a diverse and inclusive culture requires full understanding and buy-in from the organisation’s leadership.In a session titled ‘What does an inclusive workplace look like?’ Catherine Garrod, head of inclusion at Sky, Emma Codd, managing partner for talent at Deloitte, Philip Wilson, head of assessment and ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Behavioural science around power is key to preventing sexual harassment
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Understanding behavioural science around power and authority is key to preventing sexual harassment in the workplace.In a session titled ‘#MeToo – from a moment to a movement', Andrew Armes, UK head of talent acquisition at Roche, and Elizabeth Prochaska, legal director at the Equality and Human ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Rolls-Royce's Roomes says focus on performance to make business case for wellbeing
Employee Benefits Live 2018: To make the business case for wellbeing to the board of an organisation, HR leaders should focus on performance.In a session titled ‘Bringing health and wellbeing into the boardroom, the business case’, as part of the diversity and inclusion stream on 3 October, David Roomes, group ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: DWP calls for HR professionals to act as workplace pensions advocates
Employee Benefits Live 2018: HR professionals and employers can help the Department for Work and Pensions communicate the benefits of saving into a workplace pension.In a session titled ‘Auto-enrolment – what can HR learn from the DWP’s national multichannel campaign’, Mary Hennessey, head of marketing and communications at the DWP, ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Unilever chatbot to transform HR services in 106 countries
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Unilever has reimagined HR services using artificial intelligence (AI), with a chatbot to go live in 106 countries.In the closing keynote session on day one (Tuesday 2 October 2018), titled ‘Reimagining the employee experience: adventures in artificial intelligence’, Keith Williams (pictured), reimagine HR services director at ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: RBS’ Cowan says changing workplace requires individual pensions approach
Employee Benefits Live 2018: Changes to the workforce mean the days of a one-size-fits-all approach to lifetime savings are over.In a session titled ‘Lifetime savings for a changing workplace culture and demographic’, Jim Cowan, head of benefits at RBS Group, told delegates that personalisation is the key to the future ...