All articles by Louise – Page 9
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OpinionStephen Ravenscroft: Gender pay gap reporting considerations for multinational employers
The landscape for gender pay gap reporting is shifting fast, and multinational organisations face a maze of obligations in the different countries in which they operate. This poses practical and operational challenges.Approaches to pay gap reporting vary vastly between countries; thresholds for employee numbers required to trigger reporting requirements differ, ...
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ArticleHow to support employees affected by suicide
Need to know:A clear commitment to employee wellbeing can help to erode the stigma around suicide and mental ill-health and encourage staff to engage with support services.Communication and training is key to ensuring employees and line managers have a good understanding of the benefits available to them and how to ...
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ArticleRachael Saunders: How can employers support older staff in the workplace?
By 2022, it is estimated that there will be a skills gap of 7.5 million jobs, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's March 2012 report Managing a healthy ageing workforce: a national business imperative. To address this, businesses urgently need to encourage and enable older people to ...
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ArticleAndrew West: How can employers support older staff in the workplace?
The government’s Fuller working lives strategy identifies the need for employers to support older workers, not just to stay in work, but to continue developing, learning and changing jobs, even changing careers.The issues it raises are myriad, but the trap is in assuming that as employers we can somehow consider ...
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ArticleBrian Beach: How can employers support older staff in the workplace?
The need to identify policies and strategies to retain older workers will grow ever more crucial into the future as the age profile of the labour market changes. The missing million: recommendations for action research, published in April 2015, by the International Longevity Centre – UK (ILC-UK) in our Missing ...
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OpinionLouise Lawrence: Excel worker-status ruling adds to growing body of gig economy case law
Boxer v Excel follows a string of other similar rulings in deciding that an individual who was engaged by a gig economy organisation as a self-employed contractor was, in fact, a worker and therefore entitled to holiday pay.The case emphasises again that the Employment Tribunal will look beyond what is ...
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OpinionMark Smith: Inequalities in survivors' pension rights
The course of true love never did run smooth and nor, it seems, does the law on the pension rights of survivors. Three recent cases show the limits of how far the courts will go in filling the gaps left by Parliament as it struggles to keep up with the ...
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OpinionMichael Jenkins: Empower staff to work in a healthy way to support cardiovascular health
In a world where we are increasingly exposed to longer working hours, reduced time for exercise, an increased sugar intake and weight gain, focusing on health in the workplace could not be more important.The Circulation Foundation, the charity affiliated to the Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, is committed ...
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Case StudiesRSK supports heart health and wider wellbeing through staff pedometer challenges
In February 2015, environmental consultancy RSK launched an employee pedometer challenge to encourage staff to stay active as part of Healthy Heart Month. The challenge, which saw 50 teams of five employees achieve a total step count of 62,624,561 over the course of the month, ran alongside a range of ...
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AnalysisHow to support cardiovascular health in the workplace
Need to know:Encourage staff to adopt healthy behaviours to help reduce the risk factors associated with cardiovascular disease.Raise awareness of heart health and ensure staff feel able to engage with the health interventions available to them.Support for employees returning to work after a cardiac event should take into account both ...
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6-9: Benefits offered
Share schemesJust under a third (29%) of respondents offer share schemes or share options to their employees, and a further 17% offer shares or share options to staff at senior or executive level only, according to the Employee Benefits/Staffcare Benefits research 2017.This leaves more than half (54%) of respondents’ organisations ...
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ArticleLouise’s lowdown: A voice-first future for employee benefits?
The need to keep abreast of consumer behaviours and recognise the ways in which employees prefer to seek information, engage with others, and conduct transactions in their personal lives has been much discussed in the employee benefits industry in recent years, particularly when it comes to technology. It is perhaps ...
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11: Tax-efficient benefits
Just 9% of respondents’ organisations do not offer any benefits through a salary sacrifice arrangement, according to the Employee Benefits/Staffcare Benefits research 2017. This compares to 15% of respondents that said the same in 2016.The fall in the proportion of respondents that do not offer any benefits via salary sacrifice ...
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OpinionClare Gregory: Grey areas could lead to gender pay gap reporting inconsistencies
Wednesday 5 April 2017 marks the ‘snapshot’ date when organisations with more than 250 employees must collect data to calculate their mean and median gender pay and bonus gaps. Employers will be required to publish this information, with the first comparison due to be published by 4 April 2018 and ...
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OpinionSusan Ball: What do the changes to salary sacrifice mean for employers?
With publication of the Finance Bill, the final legislation around changes to salary sacrifice is now available, and considerably more pages have been added. Given the volume of additional legislative text, coupled with the short timeframe between publication and the 6 April 2017 effective date, employers face significant practical difficulties ...
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p10: Pensions
More than three-quarters (84%) of respondents allow staff to contribute to their defined contribution (DC) pension through a salary sacrifice arrangement, according to the Employee Benefits/Staffcare Benefits research 2017. This is 10 percentage points higher than in 2016, when 74% of respondents enabled employees to contribute to their workplace pension ...
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ArticleHong Kong Broadband Network introduces grandparental leave
Telecommunications organisation Hong Kong Broadband Network (HKBN) has introduced a grandparental leave policy.The scheme, which came into effect on 1 April 2017, allows Hong Kong-based employees to take three days of leave when welcoming a new grandchild. To take advantage of the policy, staff are required to submit a family ...
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ArticleGovernment legislates for changes to salary sacrifice arrangements
The government has published draft guidance on the changes to certain benefits that attract tax and national insurance contribution (NIC) advantages when offered through a salary sacrifice arrangement for the 2017-2018 tax year.The changes form part of the Finance Bill 2017 and are due to come into effect from 6 ...
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5: Key findings
The survey, which was conducted in February-March 2017 among users of www.employeebenefits.co.uk, received 271 responses. Due to rounding, percentages may not add up to 100.82% of respondents offer benefits because they are an effective retention tool23% of respondents believe employers will share the cost of benefits with employees more often ...