All Motivation and recognition articles – Page 27
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Case StudiesHighland Home Carers motivates staff with shares and bonus schemes
Operating across the Scottish highland region since 1994, Highland Home Carers (HHC) supports people living in their own homes with highly complex health and social care needs. It has a roster of more than 400 employees and has been an employee-owned organisation since 2004, rewarding staff with shares for working ...
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AnalysisHow can employers improve staff motivation going into the new year?
A key challenge for businesses next year is to ensure that their messaging around culture, purpose and values is not only aligned, but reflected in the employee experience through benefits, reward, recognition and development.By understanding employees’ differences, employers can provide more genuinely rewarding incentives for individuals to work towards.Surveys and ...
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ArticleIson Harrison transitions to employee ownership
Yorkshire-based law firm Ison Harrison has become entirely owned by its employees after the three shareholder directors agreed to sell the business to an employee ownership trust (EOT).Ison Harrison, which has 16 offices throughout the region, was founded in 1978, and now employs more than 230 staff. Its directors decided ...
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ArticleSainsbury’s increases shop staff pay to £10 an hour
Sainsbury’s has announced that all its store workers will shortly earn at least £10 an hour.The retail giant will increase the basic rate of pay across its supermarkets and Argos outlets from £9.50 an hour from 6 March, with the first pay day to reflect the change being 8 April.Also ...
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ArticleUK Swissport staff receive above-inflation pay rise
Swissport employees, who provide baggage handling and check-in services at a large number of airports across the UK, have voted to accept an above-inflation pay rise.The 8.54% hike will be paid from this month (January 2022) along with a payment to account for a smaller 2.4% rise backdated to January ...
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ArticleB&M awards bonus to 24,000 staff
More than 24,000 members of staff employed by discount retailer B&M will receive a sum equivalent to an extra week’s wage for their “considerable efforts” during the festive period.The Merseyside-headquartered business said employees will get the bonus payment this month (January) following “strong” trading over Christmas.Festive business was boosted by ...
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ArticleEmployee Benefits Awards 2022 deadline fast approaching
Time is running out to enter the Employee Benefits Awards 2022, in association with Aon, with the extended entry deadline of Friday 14 January 2022 drawing near.Now in its 20th year, the Employee Benefits Awards is considered the event of the year for the reward, benefits and HR community, as ...
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OpinionDr Zofia Bajorek: Good work holds key to mitigating the 'Great Resignation'
Over the past few months, there has been a lot of discussion about the ‘great resignation’: the idea that employees are leaving their jobs at unprecedented rates.The post-Covid labour market suggests that there are a high number of vacancies but not enough staff to fill them, and so workplaces need ...
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ArticlePoll: 51% of employers to give staff extra days off this Christmas
Employee Benefits poll: More than half of organisations will give their members of staff extra holiday days as a reward in the run up to Christmas this year.Just 48% of respondents to an online survey said they were not allowing their workers to have any additional annual leave days in ...
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ArticleWorkplace stress leads 49% of legal workers to job hunt
Half of legal professionals have looked for new jobs as a result of workplace stress, according to research.Legal technology firm Exizent conducted a survey of 52 people working in the law industry, with 49% saying they had actively searched for different employment because of challenges and stresses at work.More than ...
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ArticleAldi gives staff pay rise from February 2022
Aldi has announced that it will increase the hourly pay rates for its 28,000 members of staff from 1 February 2022 in a bid to maintain its position as one of the UK’s highest-paying supermarkets.All UK-based store assistants at the German-owned grocery chain are set to receive at least £10.10 ...
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Article52% of HR staff consider paying above the average rate
More than half of HR professionals are considering handing their employees pay increases above the market average to retain talent, according to research.A poll of 125 senior HR, diversity and inclusion, reward and people professionals at FTSE 100 businesses by insights firm HR DataHub found 52% were mulling an above-average ...
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ArticleGreentech Sportsturf moves to employee ownership
Contractor Greentech Sportsturf, which specialises in the design, construction and renovation of sports surfaces, has established an employee ownership trust (EOT).All shares in the firm, which began in 1998 on the outskirts of Stirling, Scotland, and operates across the UK, have been transferred to the EOT to make its 14 ...
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ArticleBiggest UK law firms have 20% gender pay gap
There was a 20% gender pay gap at top UK law firms in April 2020 according to research.The Law Society scrutinised the 42 law firms submitting data for the snapshot date of 31 March or 5 April last year, for which the deadline for reporting was in October 2021, finding ...
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ArticleIt's a dog's life for one special puppy pal
Something for the weekend: If the first date you will be circling on your 2022 calendar is National Bring Your Dog to Work Day (24 June in case you were wondering), then we hope you didn’t miss the opportunity to have canine cuddles every working day of the year.That’s right, ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid gets a recognition award
I love introducing a new benefit programme or benefits system, but it is very tedious updating something I’ve done at least once already. We are now on our second recognition platform, and Big Bad Boss tells me that the Higher Beings in C-suite want us to look again.In fact, they’ve ...
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Article40% of staff at small firms would leave job for better benefits
Four in 10 employees at small to medium enterprises (SMEs) in the UK would consider leaving their employer to gain better employee benefits, according to a survey.Employee benefits provider Unum UK’s poll of 2,000 adults found that 40% of employees believed employee benefits were a key influencing decision on whether ...
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OpinionCharles Cotton: Flexible working should be a focus point in 2022
Reward professionals have been busy responding to an increasingly tight labour market in the latter half of 2021. While skill and labour shortages have been felt across the board, they have been most acute in hospitality, haulage, health and social care, with bonuses and pay increases being used to counter ...
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ArticleEnable Scotland ups staff pay to £10.40 an hour
Social care charity Enable Scotland has increased its basic rate of pay to £10.40 per hour for its 2,000 members of staff as of this month (December).The wage rise, which goes beyond the Scottish government-funded increase to £10.02, means that the basic contracted rate of pay for the organisation’s care ...
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ArticlePoundstretcher gives staff 10% pay rise
Retailer Poundstretcher is to reward established employees with a 10% pay rise in recognition of their hard work throughout the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.From 1 January 2022, those who have been members of staff at the business for a full year will receive the hike in their basic annual salary.This will ...