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Pernod Ricard appoints new CHRO
Pernod Ricard North America has promoted Lani Montoya to chief human resources (HR) officer.Montoya has spent the past 10 years with the drinks company, holding various senior HR roles. She has previously been its director of global talent management (based in Paris) and more recently was director, global talent management, ...
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Bank of America increases junior banker pay
Bank of America is to give its junior bankers globally a pay boost of $10,000 (£7,290) per year and will offer them wellbeing conversations.The move is in response to a sharp rise in deal activity and comes in the face of increased competition from rival banks, which has seen Credit ...
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Call to action launched for living wage
IDH, The Sustainable Trade Initiative, has published a Call to action: Better business through better wages, demanding companies take greater steps to pay a living wage to their staff.The group, which seeks to make trade more sustainable, launched the scheme to encourage organisations and their suppliers to take action. So ...
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Kavitha’s keynote: Financial awareness is paramount
The pandemic has thrown many people’s finances into disarray, with some finding themselves unexpectedly being made redundant, while others at the end of their careers may be having to delay their retirement to save more money.While everyone’s situation is different, in these trying times what has become increasingly apparent is ...
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Health and wellbeing benefits boost SME productivity
Research by the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has today (9 April) revealed that when small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) invest in health and wellbeing benefits it has a noticeable improvement in employee productivity.According to the study, three in five (60%) SMEs polled said that investing in health and wellbeing ...
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Home workers offered canine communications boost
Photo credit: Paws in WorkSomething for the weekend: Is your workforce suffering from the dog days of lockdown lethargy? Has life begun to feel little more than the tired work-from-home routine of logging on, catching up, logging off - and repeat? Perhaps your communications need some pawsitive energy.Fret no more. ...
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43% of employers with wellbeing initiatives report 'very good' productivity
The health of employees and the British economy is dependent on employers spending much more of their benefits budgets on wellbeing initiatives, according to new report.Coping after covid, produced by Westfield Health, interviewed 1,600 employees and HR leaders. It revealed that 43% of HR managers with wellbeing programmes in place ...
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Flexible working hubs to be offered to civil servants
A national network of ‘hybrid offices’ is to be set up for civil servants to allow them to work more flexibly.Whitehall has signed a deal with serviced offices firm IWG to create 10 different co-working spaces across the UK for staff to use when not in London.According to The Telegraph ...
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PWC reveals flexible working 'Deal' for employees
Professional services firm PWC will now let all staff in its network choose what times they work best, as well as allowing them to decide whether they do so in a blended (part-home, part-office) way permanently.The company's so-called ‘Deal’ is the result of staff consultation. It gives employees an ‘empowered’ ...
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Volvo unveils global paid parental leave policy
Volvo Cars has today (1 April) announced the global roll out of its brand new ‘Family Bond’ paid parental leave policy after a successful pilot of the scheme in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.The policy – an all gender-neutral, paid parental leave of 24 weeks at 80% pay – ...
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AkzoNobel wellbeing month delivers 110 events
Dutch paints and coatings business AkzoNobel has just completed a month’s worth of health and wellbeing initiatives, which saw it squeeze in 110 different activities during March.The organisation's ‘Wellfest’ month was specifically designed to support the health, wellness and happiness of employees and their families in recognition of the fact ...
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Travis Perkins halves its gender pay gap
Travis Perkins, the trade and consumer hardware retailer, has revealed figures for 2020 which show it has halved its mean gender pay gap.According to its latest pay gap report, the organisation's mean wage difference was 4.8% in 2020, compared to 10% in 2019.The retailer's median hourly rate was even better, ...
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Women reveal lack of menopause support at work
Research published today (31 March) has highlighted the lack of menopause support women receive as they struggle to stay in work while experiencing symptoms.According to the Driving the change: menopause and the workplace report, not only is help sporadic but also poor in quality, with 76% of respondents calling for ...
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Amey rolls out new mental wellbeing support
Infrastructure services provider Amey has teamed up with mental health charity Mates in Mind to help widen the conversation among staff about managing their mental wellbeing and resilience.The partnership will see the organisation roll out the charity’s bespoke mental health and wellbeing programmes to staff, starting with online mental health ...
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Group protection usage hit by data privacy fears
New research has suggested that slower-than-anticipated uptake of some group protection benefits may be due to data privacy fears.According to a study by Legal and General, 19% of staff questioned who had access to employee assistance programmes (EAPs) revealed that privacy concerns were a barrier to usage – a figure ...
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Dechert offers all staff paid leave for Covid-19 jab
Global law firm Dechert has announced it will give paid leave to all employees getting their Covid-19 (Coronavirus) vaccination.The decision, circulated in an internal memo, revealed that staff can book up to eight hours off to get their jabs or use this time off if they have short-term side effects. ...
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Employees embrace al-fresco working
Something for the weekend: With the clocks going forward an hour this Sunday (28 March), the promise of long balmy evenings beckons. But now it seems employees are springing into the season with a desire to be outdoors and embracing al-fresco working.A poll of 1,000 UK adults has found that ...
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Mental health challenge for 70% of young employees
Younger generations want their employers to focus far more on the mental health challenge they are facing, according to new research by social purpose strategy firm Purpose Union.The study dramatically revealed the impact the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has had on employee wellbeing, with seven in 10 (70%) of millennials and ...
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42% of leisure workers would hide mental health issues
As many as 42% of leisure workers would not be honest with their employer about the need to take time off for a mental health issue, a national study has revealed.The Workforce state of mind survey 2021, which polled 1,140 individuals and employers across 81 organisations in the fitness and ...