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ArticleThe Bicester Village Shopping Collection hires Howlett
Madeline Howlett has been hired as the new benefits and reward manager at retail organisation The Bicester Village Shopping Collection.Howlett has 15 years of reward experience and specialises in developing reward and benefits strategies that align with business growth plans.Previously, Howlett had been employed as reward manager at Countrywide, reward ...
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ArticleUnit4 promotes Dodman
Software organisation Unit4 has promoted Lisa Dodman from global HR vice president to chief people officer.Dodman has 25 years of experience working within generalist HR roles globally and has spent the past 18 years specifically employed in software industry. In particular, she focuses on talent enablement.Dodman joined Unit4 in 2015; ...
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ArticleMultivitamin subscription organisation to pay vitamin testers £5,000 each
Something for the weekend: Multivitamin subscription service Feel is offering to pay three job seekers £5,000 each to act as vitamin testers, to trial the effectiveness of its new multivitamin.The unusual job role will require three carb-loving candidates to maintain an existing non-balanced diet for 30 days, munching on typically ...
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ArticleThe top 10 most read stories: 4-10 July 2019
The top 10 most read stories on www.employeebenefits.co.uk between 4 and 10 July 2019 were: Molson Coors Brewing Company launches life leave for 2,000 employeesGovernment to consult on gender pay gap metrics as part of gender equality roadmapRolls-Royce and Vodafone among FTSE 100 employers that publish parental leave policiesSalesforce, Apple ...
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ArticleMap healthcare benefit trends in exclusive research for the chance to win prize draw
How is the employer's duty of care changing around employee wellbeing, and what are organisations encouraging staff to focus on in terms of individual health and wellness? What are the most popular strategies around reducing sickness absence, and what wellbeing benefits are businesses offering staff?Employee Benefits readers can now feed ...
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ArticleAccordance VAT pilots four-day working week
Tax consultancy Accordance VAT is piloting a compressed four-day working week for its 140 staff in Brighton in order to improve employee wellbeing and work-life balance.The six-week pilot started on 1 July 2019 and will run until 9 August, followed by a second trial phase from 12 August 2019. Employee ...
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ArticleTelstra offers 16 weeks of paid parental leave for 30,000 employees
Telecommunications organisation Telstra has its enhanced its parental leave benefit, offering up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave for its 30,000 Australia-based employees.The enhanced leave policy, effective from 1 July 2019, enables both and male and female members of staff with at least one year of service to take ...
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AnalysisWhat role can workplace sports and social clubs have within a health and wellbeing strategy?
Need to know:Workplace sports and social clubs, such as football teams, theatre groups and chess clubs, support social wellbeing as part of a broader health and wellness strategy.Forging employee relationships away from work can improve business outcomes by encouraging creativity and collaboration.Clubs should be inclusive and not simply centre around ...
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Case StudiesDeloitte Ireland uses sports and social clubs to boost employee wellbeing
Professional services firm Deloitte Ireland currently runs 15 different sports and social clubs, available for all employees. The organisation has 2,500 employees across five locations in Belfast, Cork, Dublin, Galway and Limerick, around 2,000 of whom are based in Dublin.Among the most popular is its running club, which has 80 ...
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ArticleGatehouse Bank appoints Lloyd
Financial services business Gatehouse Bank has appointed Amy Lloyd as its new HR business partner.In this role, Lloyd will develop the organisation’s people proposition and related policies, as well as advising staff on key HR issues.Lloyd, who will be based at Gatehouse Bank’s Milton Keynes office, has prior experience around ...
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OpinionJo Thorburn: How does social activity link to wellbeing?
At Equifax, wellbeing is fundamental to our #AtYourBest people strategy, and we recognise the important role that social activities play. When people are healthy and happy, they bring their whole selves to work and perform better.We also know that people have different things going on at different times in their ...
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ArticleAsda employees receive £62 million through employee share scheme
Employees at supermarket retailer Asda have received a return from the organisation’s sharesave scheme, totalling £62 million. This affects approximately 25,000 members of staff. Sharesave schemes allow eligible employees to save directly from their salary over a set number of years, at the end of which they can either take ...
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ArticleLondon records highest ethnicity pay gap in Britain, at 21.7% for 2018
London recorded the largest regional ethnicity pay gap in 2018, at 21.7%. This is compared to an ethnicity pay gap of 6.5% in favour of those in groups other than white British in the North East, according to research by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).Ethnicity pay gaps in Great ...
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OpinionRebecca McGuirk: Pay offer was not unlawful inducement to bypass collective bargaining
The Court of Appeal has held in Kostal UK Ltd v Dunkley and others that an employer's direct offer to individual employees when collective bargaining had broken down did not amount to an unlawful inducement contrary to section 145B of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992.The employer ...
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ArticleSalesforce, Apple and Deloitte listed as best places to work in the UK and US
Software organisation Salesforce (pictured), technology business Apple and professional services firm Deloitte are the top three employers to work for in the UK and US, according to research by Power House Truths.The analysis used data from LinkedIn, Glassdoor, PayScale and annual organisational reports to compare business’ average salaries, benefits and ...
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ArticleEdsential staff in Cheshire West and Wirral to receive voluntary living wage
School caterers and cleaners employed by community interest organisation Edsential for Cheshire West and Wirral councils have received a pay increase, ensuring that all staff are paid at least £9 an hour.The pay rise, effective from 1 July 2019, was negotiated with trade union Unison as part of its campaign ...
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ArticleMolson Coors Brewing Company launches life leave for 2,000 employees
Molson Coors Brewing Company has launched a new leave benefit for the more than 2,000 employees based in the UK and Ireland, providing an additional two weeks of paid leave for the purpose of aiding wellbeing.The benefit, named 'life leave', was introduced in July 2019. The policy has been designed ...
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ArticleTake part in exclusive healthcare benefits research for a chance to enter prize draw
How do businesses calculate the return-on-investment when it comes to implementing healthcare benefits? How do organisations aim to support employees’ mental health? What is an employer’s duty of care when it comes to encouraging staff to focus on their individual health and wellbeing?Employee Benefits readers can now have their say ...
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ArticleRolls-Royce and Vodafone among FTSE 100 employers that publish parental leave policies
Insurance firm Aviva (pictured), car manufacturer Rolls-Royce and telecommunications organisation Vodafone are among the 23 organisations in the FTSE 100 that publish details about maternity, paternity, shared parental and adoption pay and leave policies, according to research by parenting website Mumsnet.In analysing the UK’s top 100 organisations, Mumsnet found that ...
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ArticleJames Madison University introduces $12 per hour living wage
Effective from 1 July 2019, US-based academic institution James Madison University (JMU) has introduced a $12 (£9.58) per hour living wage for full-time employees, increasing its annual base pay by an average of $690 (£550.71) for 109 members of staff.The university, located in Virginia, calculated its living wage, defined as ...