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ArticleAustralia to increase national minimum wage by 3%
Australia’s Fair Work Commission has determined that the country’s national minimum wage should be increased by 3%, effective from the first full pay period on 1 July 2019.The Fair Work Act 2009 requires the Expert Panel for annual wage reviews, part of the Fair Work Commission, to undertake a review ...
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AnalysisHow to roll out healthcare and wellbeing benefits globally
Need to know:Employers looking to roll out healthcare and wellbeing benefits globally need to use culturally appropriate language to effectively engage employees across different locations.Creating a global framework that allows for local tailoring is effective for supporting geographically dispersed staff while adhering to an overall vision.Buy-in from local HR teams, ...
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Case StudiesThe Taxback Group tailors health and wellbeing programme for 1,400 global employees
Global financial services organisation The Taxback Group has tailored its health and wellbeing programme, Group Life, to accommodate 1,400 employees based across 33 countries.Group Life originally launched in February 2017, during the organisation’s annual wellbeing week. The programme is structured around three pillars which form the basis for a yearly ...
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OpinionAnnelise Tracy Phillips: Implementing a global wellbeing strategy
A good wellbeing strategy reflects organisational values and culture. It has consistent messaging and is a coherent whole, rather being than a series of one-off interventions. However, a global wellbeing strategy also needs to be flexible enough to account for local attitudes to the employment relationship, different views of the ...
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ArticleAllianz Partners UK hosts wellbeing week for 360 staff
Insurance provider Allianz Partners UK has hosted a wellbeing week for its 360 employees, to help promote positive mental and physical wellbeing.The wellbeing week ran between 1 and 5 April 2019 to coincide with the end of a busy business period; the organisation wanted to encourage staff to relax and ...
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ArticleA third plan to work past age 65 because their pension is not sufficient
Around a third (32%) of respondents plan to work beyond the age of 65 because their pension savings will not be sufficient to allow them to cease earning a wage, according to research by Canada Life Group Insurance.Its survey of 1,002 full and part-time employees also found that 25% believe ...
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ArticleReed and Three UK shortlisted for Benefits team of the year
Construction organisation Kier Group, employment agency Reed and telecommunications business Three UK are the organisations shortlisted in the Benefits team of the year category at the Employee Benefits Awards 2019.This award celebrates the achievements of an in-house benefits team that works together to deliver benefits and reward to help drive ...
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OpinionLindsey Hunt: Can an employer ban working from home?
In March 2019, city bank BNY Mellon came under fire for announcing it was putting a stop to working from home. Its employees vented that this was a huge step backwards, with issues such as mental health and childcare among the key concerns. The backlash led to the bank retracting ...
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ArticleMarks and Spencer completes pensioner buy-in transactions equating to £1.4bn
Retail organisation Marks and Spencer has completed two pensioner buy-in transactions for its defined benefit (DB) pension scheme, totalling approximately £1.4 billion.The buy-in policies have been completed with insurance organisations Phoenix Life and the Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) as part of the scheme’s long-term de-risking strategy. This approach aims to ...
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ArticleThe Geo Group increases minimum wage for US-based correctional and detention officers
Correctional and community re-entry services organisation The Geo Group has increased the minimum starting wage for 7,400 correctional and detention officers working across all of its US-based facilities, with further plans to raise wages to $15 (£11.83) an hour by 2021.The organisation awarded correctional and detention officers in the US ...
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ArticleCourt of Appeal rules that shared parental and maternity leaves are not comparable
The Court of Appeal has ruled that male employees taking shared parental leave cannot be compared to female staff on maternity leave, because new mothers are required to use their time off, in part, to recover from pregnancy and childbirth.The Court of Appeal issued its judgement on Friday 24 May ...
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ArticleMore than half feel that fathers are treated equally to mothers in their workplace
More than half (56%) of fathers believe they are treated equally to mothers at their organisations, according to research by online community lifestyle platform Daddilife and professional services firm Deloitte.Its The millennial dad at work report, which questioned 2,002 UK fathers aged between 24 and 40 in March and April ...
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ArticleNpower and University of Lincoln candidates shortlisted for Rising star award
Bethany Ridgewell at energy organisation Npower and Rosie Damarell at the University of Lincoln are among the candidates shortlisted in the Rising star category at this year’s Employee Benefits Awards.This accolade, which is new for 2019, recognises HR, benefits and reward professionals starting out in their careers and who are ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Hays re-vamps benefits platform and aligns reward with new wellbeing structure
EXCLUSIVE: Recruitment organisation Hays has updated its benefits platform, introduced a new wellbeing structure to align with available benefits and launched an online employee engagement survey in order to reinvigorate and modernise its approach to benefits and reward.The business sought to update its benefits offering to reflect how the workplace ...
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ArticleCalifornia-based cannabis organisation boosts pay and benefits for delivery drivers
Something for the weekend: California-based cannabis organisation Caliva has boosted the pay and employee benefits for its delivery drivers, offering up to $16 (£12.62) an hour and a 401K pension scheme.Caliva, which grows its own cannabis to use in a range of consumer products, available in shops or online, has ...
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ArticleThe top 10 most read stories: 16-22 May 2019
The top 10 most read stories on www.employeebenefits.co.uk between 16 and 22 May 2019 were: European court rules that member states must measure employees' working timeJohn Lewis Partnership to close defined benefit section of workplace pension schemeBT Group adopts employee ownership model for 100,000 staffFloating bar in Caribbean Sea seeks ...
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ArticleMedical couriers at The Doctors Laboratory strike in pay dispute
London-based medical couriers employed by pathology services provider The Doctors Laboratory (TDL) and who are members of the trade union the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB), are undertaking two days of strike action in an ongoing pay dispute.The industrial action, which runs today (Thursday 23 May 2019) and ...
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ArticleCredit Suisse and Google among 2019’s highest-paying UK organisations
Financial services organisation Credit Suisse, technology businesses Google and Microsoft and consultancy firm McKinsey and Company are among the top 25 highest-paying organisations in the UK, according to research by employment review website Glassdoor.Its 25 highest paying companies in the UK for 2019 report is based on UK employee salary ...
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ArticleHyperoptic hires Gururani
Gigabit network provider Hyperoptic has hired Naleena Gururani as its new chief people officer.In her new role, Gururani will lead a team of 30 HR professionals across the organisation's UK and Belgrade offices, taking a strategic lead in designing and implementing programmes centred around organisational culture, a people-focused operating model ...
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OpinionJonathan Pears: Encouraging staff to walk more can boost wellbeing
According to figures from the Association of Accounting Technicians published in September 2018, over our lifetime, we will spend 3,507 days on our careers and 14,053 hours getting to and from work. In addition, the Department for Transport's Road investment strategy for the 2015/16-2019/20 road period report, published in 2015, ...