All Private medical insurance articles – Page 34
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ArticleSheriff’s captain loses job for using jail inmates to build workplace barbecue
Something for the weekend: With the warmer weather advancing, increasing numbers of employees are daydreaming about firing up the barbie after work. Meanwhile, employers are ever more aware of the need for breakout spaces, down time and social events to boost wellbeing and create a positive work-life balance among staff.However, ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid examines HR policies
I am still reeling from the shock. Big Bad Boss has called me in and said they (presumably the Higher Beings on the third floor) want me to update the intranet. What all of it? Big Bad Boss seems to think so. He waves my concerns away with the back ...
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ArticleNell Andrew: How can employers support those affected by domestic abuse?
Domestic abuse has a devastating impact on individuals and their families. With two women every week and one man every month being killed by a partner or ex-partner, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics in February 2018, having an active, visible workplace policy on domestic abuse ...
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ArticleJacqui Kilburn: How can employers support those affected by domestic abuse?
Domestic abuse has a dramatic impact on all aspects of a woman’s life, including on her employment. We know from our work with survivors that women have lost jobs as a result of their experience of domestic abuse or having to flee their home. We also know that financial concerns, ...
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ArticleMichelle Cronin: How can employers support those affected by domestic abuse?
In December 2018 Thompsons Solicitors pledged its commitment to the GMB union’s Work to Stop Domestic Abuse charter, signed the five-point commitment and pledged to deliver on its aims in full by Autumn 2019, in order to ensure staff across our network of 17 offices have access to support, services ...
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Supplier articleEmployee recognition: why the first step starts with YOU
By Toni Whitehouse, Head of Sales Development at Reward GatewayThroughout my professional career, I've had the opportunity to work in a variety of roles – including Recruitment, Sales and Management – selling into a number of different industries. Not only has this given me a unique perspective for the different ...
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ArticleCeltic Anglian Water reduces absence rate by 2.4 days per employee over two years
Ireland-based design, construction and operations contractor Celtic Anglian Water (Caw) has reduced its absence rate by 2.4 days per employee over two years, as a result of its ongoing health and wellbeing strategy.Caw, which employs approximately 100 employees across operating sites in Dublin, Sligo and Waterford as part of UK ...
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Case StudiesInspired Villages develops benefits programme in line with organisational values
Inspired Villages, which develops and operates luxury retirement villages, recently launched a reward and recognition programme for its 210 employees nationwide, to boost engagement and align staff to brand new organisational values.The programme, provided by Reward Gateway, went live on 23 April 2019 and combines both top-down and peer-to-peer recognition, ...
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Supplier articleAre your company's employee benefits and culture really working together?
Employee benefits should be an extension and an expression of your company culture, but they also play a lead role in helping create and maintain it. When you work to ensure your benefits and culture are in sync, the pay-offs can be great. Working together, the two can yield higher ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by Inspired Villages
The benefits offered by Inspired Villages:Pension, protection and payA defined contribution (DC) pension scheme is available for all staff through auto-enrolment; contributions are set at the statutory minimum of a monthly 5% from employees and 3% from the employer.Life insurance, at three times an employee’s base salary, is available on ...
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ArticleAlmost three-fifths of UK employees support full pay transparency
Almost three-fifths (56%) of respondents support full pay transparency, according to research by global job site Indeed.The meaning of work, a report which analysed jobseeker trends from Indeed’s monthly visitors over the last five years and surveyed 2,008 UK employees, also found that 74% believe they can do their jobs ...
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ArticleEmerald signs Time to Change pledge to create conversations around mental health
Global learning organisation Emerald has signed the Time to Change employer pledge, to encourage staff to think and act differently around mental health in the workplace, and to promote open conversations among its 500 employees across 130 countries.The Time to Change employer pledge, a social movement operated by mental health ...
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ArticleArm and Bank of America Merrill Lynch shortlisted for Best work-life balance benefits
Technology organisation Arm, financial business Bank of America Merrill Lynch and the London Borough of Waltham Forest are among the organisations shortlisted in the Best benefits to support work-life balance category at the Employee Benefits Awards 2019.This accolade recognises an employer that has implemented benefits, policies and initiatives to flexibly ...
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ArticleANZ launches global loyalty leave policy in 24 countries
The Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ) has launched a new loyalty leave policy for staff in 24 of its operating countries, providing five days of paid leave for those with three or more years of consecutive service.The new paid leave policy, which was launched on 20 May 2019, ...
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AnalysisHow to roll out healthcare and wellbeing benefits globally
Need to know:Employers looking to roll out healthcare and wellbeing benefits globally need to use culturally appropriate language to effectively engage employees across different locations.Creating a global framework that allows for local tailoring is effective for supporting geographically dispersed staff while adhering to an overall vision.Buy-in from local HR teams, ...
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Case StudiesThe Taxback Group tailors health and wellbeing programme for 1,400 global employees
Global financial services organisation The Taxback Group has tailored its health and wellbeing programme, Group Life, to accommodate 1,400 employees based across 33 countries.Group Life originally launched in February 2017, during the organisation’s annual wellbeing week. The programme is structured around three pillars which form the basis for a yearly ...
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OpinionAnnelise Tracy Phillips: Implementing a global wellbeing strategy
A good wellbeing strategy reflects organisational values and culture. It has consistent messaging and is a coherent whole, rather being than a series of one-off interventions. However, a global wellbeing strategy also needs to be flexible enough to account for local attitudes to the employment relationship, different views of the ...
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ArticleAllianz Partners UK hosts wellbeing week for 360 staff
Insurance provider Allianz Partners UK has hosted a wellbeing week for its 360 employees, to help promote positive mental and physical wellbeing.The wellbeing week ran between 1 and 5 April 2019 to coincide with the end of a busy business period; the organisation wanted to encourage staff to relax and ...
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ArticleA third plan to work past age 65 because their pension is not sufficient
Around a third (32%) of respondents plan to work beyond the age of 65 because their pension savings will not be sufficient to allow them to cease earning a wage, according to research by Canada Life Group Insurance.Its survey of 1,002 full and part-time employees also found that 25% believe ...
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OpinionLindsey Hunt: Can an employer ban working from home?
In March 2019, city bank BNY Mellon came under fire for announcing it was putting a stop to working from home. Its employees vented that this was a huge step backwards, with issues such as mental health and childcare among the key concerns. The backlash led to the bank retracting ...