All articles by LouronPratt – Page 20
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ArticleCalifornia Court of Appeals grants Uber and Lyft extension over ruling
The California Court of Appeal has granted US ridesharing businesses Uber and Lyft an extension to classify their drivers as employees during the appeal process in its ongoing court case.On 10 August 2020, the superior court of the state of California, ruled that over 750,000 Uber drivers and over 1.4 ...
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ArticleHomeserve signs Race at Work charter to improve workplace equality
Emergency repairs and improvements organisation Homeserve has signed the Race at Work charter, committing to address the issues that ethnic minority employees face in the workplace.The race charter, which has been developed in partnership with the UK government and business outreach charity Business in the Community (BITC), has set out ...
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ArticleLinklaters introduces long-term flexible working policy for 5,200 employees
Global law firm Linklaters is introducing a new global agile working policy for its 5,200 employees.The organisation's enhanced remote working policy will allow employees to work from home 20-50% of the time, even after Coronavirus restrictions are lifted, as long as this is communicated to teams beforehand and operational roles ...
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ArticleKennedys resumes salary increases and bonus reviews after Covid-19 delays
Global law firm Kennedys has resumed its annual global salary increase and bonus reviews, that were initially put on hold due to the financial uncertainty resulting from the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.The delayed salary performance-based reviews, which were due to take place in May 2020 for non-lawyer employees and September 2020 ...
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ArticleBritish Arab Commercial Bank appoints Chris Dunford as chief people officer
British Arab Commercial Bank (BACB) has hired Chris Dunford as the new chief people officer.Before taking on this new role ar BACB, Dunford spent four months as an interim HR director for the bank. Dunford will be responsible for delivering BACB’s people strategy, seeking to improve the businesses core values, ...
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Visa uses communication to engage employees with pensions
Financial services business Visa offers a quarterly bonus scheme to its 19,000 employees based on their performance.To increase the chances of employees having a healthy retirement fund, the organisation in July 2017 allowed employees to contribute some or all of these bonus funds towards their pension savings tax-free, in comparison ...
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ArticleReed Smith partially lifts Covid-19 pay cuts
International law firm Reed Smith is reducing the employee pay cuts it implemented in June 2020 to deal with the financial ramifications of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.The organisation, which has 12 offices world-wide including London, will be increasing the pay of its employees whose yearly salary before the pay decrease ...
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ArticleDamia Group launches employee ownership trust
International recruitment firm Damia Group is now 100% employee owned, following on from introducing an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT).The 15 employees at Damia Group now control 100% of the shares within the business that is headquartered in Guildford and has offices in Edinburgh and Portugal.The business established the EOT to ...
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ArticleGett offers 1,000 employees a four day working week
Transportation organisation Gett is offering its 1,000 employees globally the option to work a four day week from a location of their choice.The new policy Gett Flexi, will offer employees, including its 150 staff in the UK, the opportunity to work four days a week, with the new working week ...
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ArticleUniversity of Sheffield cancels plans to introduce pay freezes and cuts
The University of Sheffield is cancelling its plans to introduce pay freezes and pay cuts due to the financial impact of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.In July 2020, the university began a consultation period with its 8,000 staff to discuss the possibility of changes to their pay structure, progression and promotion, ...
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ArticleTelefonica UK reports mean gender pay gap of 13.5%
Telefonica UK (O2) has reported a mean gender pay gap of 13.5% for average hourly pay as at April 2020.The organisation, which currently has 6,700 employees, reported its gender pay gap data in line with the government’s gender pay gap reporting regulations.The reporting regulations require organisations with 250 or more ...
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ArticleSalesforce extends homeworking policy until July 2021
US cloud-based software organisation Salesforce is extending its working from home policy until at least 31 July 2021.The organisation has also confirmed that its offices will remained closed for the remainder of the year, to support the health and safety of its employees during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.To further support ...
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ArticleThe top 10 most read stories: 13 August – 19 August
The top ten most read stories between 13 August – 19 August were: Schroders introduces permanent flexible working policy for 5,000 global employeesBakkavor provides full sick pay for 1,600 employeesSiemens completes £530 million pensions buy-in transactionInverclyde Council introduces £125,000 local furlough schemeAdmiral awards shares worth £1,800 to 10,000 employees49% of ...
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ArticleDesigner Appliances looking to hire vacuum cleaner tester
Something for the weekend: Designer Appliances is looking to hire a tester to review its new cordless vacuum cleaner.After realising the incredible amount of stress that pet owners can be put under when carrying out day-to-day chores, the organisation thought it would be best to hire a pooch-owning applicant to ...
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ArticleUniversity of East Anglia temporarily freezes pay rises for employees
The University of East Anglia (UEA) has introduced a number of pay measures for over 3,000 employees to deal with the financial ramifications of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.The oirganisation has introduced a temporary pay freeze until 2021, stalling all pay rises that were due to come into effect in August ...
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ArticleBrands2Life launches employee ownership trust
Communications agency Brands2life has given its 140 employees part-ownership of the business, using an employee ownership trust.The transition, which was completed in August 2020, will give employees who have worked at the business for more than three months, the opportunity to control shares within the business.Brands2life implemented the employee ownership ...
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ArticleSupreme Court rules that inheritance tax should not be applied to pension transfer
The Supreme Court has ruled that there should be no charge to inheritance tax on a transfer to an individual's personal pension plan.The case was brought to the Supreme Court when Mrs Rachel Staveley who, before she passed away in 2006, transferred her pension fund from a company pension under ...
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ArticleAustralia Post rewards 33,000 employees with recognition bonus
Australia Post will give its 33,000 employees an average payment of $600 (£329) to reward them for their efforts during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.All employees within the business ranging from post office employees to mail processing staff and call centre employees, will receive the one-time bonus due to be paid ...
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ArticleHitachi Solutions reports mean gender pay gap of 22.3%
Hitachi Solutions has reported a mean gender pay gap of 22.3% for average hourly pay as at April 2019.The organisation, which currently has 261 employees, reported its gender pay gap data in line with the government’s gender pay gap reporting regulations.The reporting regulations require organisations with 250 or more employees ...
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Article75% of employees are happier working from home
Three-quarters (75%) of employees in the UK are happier working from home, according to research by Huawei.Its survey of 2,000 office-based employees also found that more than half of respondents (53%) say choosing where they work is having a positive impact on their mental health.Additionally, 53% of respondents are enjoying ...