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Lisa Finnegan: What should employers consider when planning fertility support?
Trying for a baby can feel like the most significant thing in a person’s life when they are right in the middle of it. The idea that we do this in isolation from our working lives is totally unrealistic, yet people still find it too difficult to talk to their ...
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Goldman Sachs offers financial help for fertility treatment to 36,000 employees globally
Global investment bank Goldman Sachs has announced a number of enhancements to its benefits programme, including stipends for egg retrieval and egg donation, available to all of its 36,000 global employees effective from 1 November 2019.With this new benefit, employees will be able to access a stipend to recoup the ...
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Goldman Sachs offers financial help for fertility treatment to 36,000 employees
Global investment bank Goldman Sachs has announced a number of enhancements to its benefits and wellness programmes including stipends for egg retrieval and egg donation available to all of its 36,000 employees.The organisation has been supporting employees for over ten years by reimbursing costs of adoption and surrogacy up to ...
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Goldman Sachs offers 36,000 employees financial help for fertility treatment
Global investment bank Goldman Sachs has announced a number of enhancements to its benefits and wellness programmes including stipends for egg retrieval and egg donation available to all of its 36,000 employees,The organisation has been supporting employees for over ten years by reimbursing costs of adoption and surrogacy up to ...
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Channel 4 introduces menopause policy to tackle stigma and support female staff
Media organisation Channel 4 has introduced a new menopause policy for its 800 UK-based staff, aiming to support employees with menopausal symptoms, as well as to provide guidance to managers and colleagues on how to assist others.The new policy, which launched today (Friday 18 October 2019) in conjunction with World ...
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Poll: 77% of organisations do not have a strategy to address the menopause
Employee Benefits poll: More than three-quarters (77%) of Employee Benefits readers do not have a strategy in place at their organisations to address the menopause, or to support female staff who may be experiencing menopausal symptoms.A straw poll of www.employeebenefits.co.uk readers, which received 33 responses, also found that 15% have ...
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Poll: How does your organisation primarily support employees with the menopause?
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Labour pledges 32-hour week, end of zero hours and to tackle menopause stigma
During the 2019 Labour Party Conference, which took place from Saturday 21 to Wednesday 25 September, shadow chancellor of the exchequer John McDonnell MP (pictured) committed the party to start work implementing a 32-hour average working week, with no reductions to pay, during its next term in government.The move to ...
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Almost three-fifths of those experiencing menopause are negatively affected at work
Almost three-fifths (59%) of female respondents experiencing menopausal symptoms, aged between 45 and 55, state that the menopause has had a negative impact on their experience at work, according to research by the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD).The survey of 2,010 female employees between the ages of 45 ...
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DOD’s blog: Why a fertility app in the workplace shocked me
A workplace mobile app that tracks female employees’ fertility made the papers this week.Yes, I was as surprised as most of you probably are.Our fertility, or lack thereof, is not something most of us would consider to be a ‘workplace issue’.However, over in the US this new app, called ‘Glow’ ...