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Case Studies
Moore Kingston Smith ensures its pay and benefits strategies are sustainable
Professional services firm Moore Kingston Smith looks to balance salary, recognition and benefits equally as part of its holistic approach to its people and their reward.The organisation, which employs 75 partners and 700 employees based in and around London, regularly reviews its pay strategy according to the current climate, the ...
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55% of UK staff want more reward and recognition investment
More than half (55%) of UK employees want their employer to increase its investment in employee reward and recognition, according to reseerch by employee engagement platform Reward Gateway.Its 2023 Employee engagement trends report, which surveyed more than 3,000 employees across four global regions, also found that more than half of ...
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Sadler’s Wells reports 12.46% mean gender pay gap
Image credit: cktravels.com / Shutterstock.comLondon-based performing arts theatre Sadler’s Wells has reported a 12.46% gender pay gap for 2022.Its median gender pay gap last year was 17.02%, with women’s median hourly pay being 17% lower than men’s. Women’s mean hourly pay was 12.5% lower than men’s.Almost two-thirds (61%) of the ...
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Ipsos reports 17.4% mean gender pay gap
Market research firm Ipsos published its annual gender and ethnicity pay gap report, showing that its mean gender pay gap for 2022 was 17.4% in favour of male employees.Its median gender pay gap was 8.3%. Meanwhile, its mean gender bonus gap was 33.2% and its median gap was 25%, with ...
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32.5% of organisations had no 2022 Christmas party or bonus
Employee Benefits poll: Almost a third (32.5%) of organisations did not give their staff a Christmas party or a bonus last year, according to an online survey among Employee Benefits readers.Conversely, 22.2% of respondents hosted a festive party for their employees, and 20% gave their workforce a Christmas bonus.Meanwhile, 32.5% ...
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Crookes Walker Consulting becomes 100% employee owned
Engineering consulting services business Crookes Walker Consulting (CWC) has become 100% employee owned by establishing an employee ownership trust (EOT).The organisation, which employs more than 50 members of staff across its offices in Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham, received a business loan from OakNorth Bank to support the EOT’s creation. The ...
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Ann Summers reports 35.2% mean gender pay gap
Credit: Roger Utting / Shutterstock.comRetail business Ann Summers has reported a mean gender pay gap for 2022 of 35.2%, and a median gap of 31%, higher than the mean national average of 17.1%.Ann Summers' mean bonus pay gap for 2022 was -168.6% in favour of women, and its median bonus ...
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Santander Consumer UK reports 26.5% mean gender pay gap
Santander Consumer UK has reported that its mean average pay gap for 2022 was 26.5%, while its median gap was 26.6%.According to the business, these figures were both 3.9 percentage lower than in 2021.Women occupied 34.5% of the highest paid jobs and 63.8% of the lowest paid jobs, while 65.5% ...
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Stagecoach gives Sunderland drivers 11% pay rise
Bus drivers employed by Stagecoach in Sunderland have accepted an 11% pay rise and £150 bonus, backdated to 1 December 2022, ending their long-running strike.Three-quarters of the drivers, members of the trade union GMB, voted to accept the pay increase, which is more than the offer they received last year, ...
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Sainsbury’s boosts pay to at least £11 an hour
Supermarket chain Sainsbury’s has increased the pay of 127,000 hourly paid employees to at least £11 per hour, in a policy that will be effective from February.As part of a £205 million investment, hourly retail pay at Sainsbury’s and Argos have been increased from £10.25 to £11.00 per hour, and ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2023 gives entrants chance to win table for 10
HR, reward and benefits professionals who want to win a table at the Employee Benefits Awards 2023 and receive the early bird entry rate only have two days left to submit their entries.Those who submit their entries by the end of Friday 6 January will receive an automatic entry into ...
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Supplier article
How to make the most of your new fitness tracking gadget
From Apple Watch, Garmin, and Coros, here’s the best features of your new smartwatchWith so many people making health-related New Year’s resolutions, a great gift this Christmas is a new fitness tracker. Such smartwatches are definitely popular as recent research from Deloitte's Digital Consumer Trends Report shows that 19.2m health ...
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Seven Search and Selection transfers to full employee ownership
Leeds-based recruitment firm Seven Search and Selection has signed a deal to transfer full ownership across to its 25 employees as of this month.According to the business, it chose to establish an employee ownership trust (EOT) so all of its employees would be personally invested and working for each other, ...
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Wickes reports 7.4% mean gender pay gap
Home improvement retailer Wickes has reported a mean gender pay gap of 7.4%, up from 6.4% in 2021.The business, which published its second gender pay gap report since becoming an independent listed employer, also reported a 2.6% median gender pay gap for 2022, narrowing from 8.4% last year.Wickes stated that ...
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Supplier article
The five best budget friendly Christmas gifts for your employees
When you reach the last calendar month, there are many tell-tale signs it’s nearly Christmas. Office attire has switched to thermals and dangly Christmas tree earrings, Heart Christmas Radio is on repeat, and the workload dies down as you start putting tasks on next year’s to-do list.Yet, December is also ...
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The top 10 most-read articles between 9 - 15 December 2022
The top 10 most-read articles on www.employeebenefits.co.uk between 9 and 15 December 2022 were: Northern Ireland government confirms £1,400 NHS pay awardJacob’s Cream Crackers gives 6.5% pay riseGovernment awards £1.97 million to help women in the workplaceEmployers using pay to drive performance outperform peersBillionaire boss hires out Disney World exclusively ...
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Opinion
Lovewell's logic: Navigating Christmas celebrations in 2022
Christmas party season is well and truly underway. With so many celebrations cancelled over the past two years due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this year, many are relishing the opportunity to celebrate with friends, family and colleagues. But, given the volatile economic climate we are currently living in, and the ...
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FDM Group reports -4% mean gender pay gap
Recruitment business FDM Group has published its gender pay gap report for 2022, having achieved a mean gender pay gap of -4%.The organisation's median gender pay gap for this year was -4.3%, having narrowed compared with last year’s figure of -9.6%, but remaining well below the UK average median pay ...
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Bank of New York Mellon Corporation creates stock plan for 51,000 global employees
Credit: JHVEPhoto / Shutterstock.comUS and global investment banking services organisation Bank of New York (BNY) Mellon Corporation has introduced a share scheme for eligible employees with BK Restricted Stock Units, or BK Shares, which will open on 13 February 2023.A grant of 10 restricted stock units will be awarded to ...
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Imperial College London reports 16.6% mean gender pay gap
Imperial College London has published its gender pay gap report for the sixth time, showing a mean gender pay gap of 16.6% for 2022, which is higher than the 13.9% national mean gender pay gap.The university's mean hourly rate for total pay was £27.49 for women and £32.97 for men, ...