All Sickness absence articles – Page 25

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    Supplier article

    VSP backs PHE’s Stoptober anti-smoking campaign, says smoking can damage your eyesight

    2019-09-18T11:32:38Z

    Eyecare specialist, VSP Vision Care, is backing Public Health England’s (PHE’s) Stoptober anti-smoking campaign due to the impact that smoking can have on the eyesight.VSP Vision Care, the world’s largest not-for-profit vision care services company with almost 90 million members worldwide, notes that smokers are at much greater risk of ...

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    Article

    EXCLUSIVE: Two-fifths do not know cost of providing healthcare benefits

    2019-09-18T08:56:14Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Two-fifths (41%) of employers do not know how much providing healthcare benefits is estimated to cost their organisation; this proportion has risen gradually over the past few years, having stood at 30% in 2017, according to research by Employee Benefits.The Employee Benefits/Health Shield Healthcare research 2019, which surveyed 202 ...

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    Article

    Deloitte UK, KPMG UK and PWC UK pledge to support disability inclusion

    2019-09-17T09:44:33Z

    Professional services firms Deloitte UK, KPMG UK and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) UK have signed a global disability inclusion commitment, The Valuable 500, operated by business campaign group #valuable.The Valuable 500, launched in January 2019, is a year-long, global campaign that is asking 500 private sector organisations to pledge to support disability ...

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    Article

    Four-fifths of UK employees cite salary as important for their happiness at work

    2019-09-17T09:37:51Z

    Around four-fifths (86%) of UK employees cite salary as the most important factor contributing to their happiness at work, according to research by Capita.The state of IT: The employee verdict, a report which surveyed 2,000 UK professionals who use a computer to access data and applications, also found that 75% ...

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    Opinion

    Michael Royce: How can employers help staff improve financial capability?

    2019-09-17T05:00:31Z

    Employers play an increasingly important role in supporting the financial wellbeing of their people, both through the success of pensions auto-enrolment and by providing schemes such as season ticket loans and childcare vouchers.Figures from Neyber’s The DNA of financial wellbeing report, published in May 2016, estimate that money worries cost ...

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    Article

    Two-fifths of UK employees cite flexible hours as most important job element

    2019-09-16T11:07:57Z

    More than two-fifths (44%) of UK employees cite the ability to work flexible hours as the most important element of a job, according to research by Jellyfish Training.Its survey of 2,000 full and part-time professionals in the UK also found that 40% of respondents believe praise and recognition of their ...

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    Employee Benefits/Health Shield Healthcare Research 2019

    2019-09-16T08:44:00Z

    Click to download the Employee Benefits/Health Shield Healthcare research 2019 reportThe Employee Benefits/Health Shield Healthcare research 2019 was conducted in July 2019 among readers of employeebenefits.co.uk. It received 202 responses.This report is aimed at helping compensation, reward and benefits professionals understand the key issues driving current health and wellbeing strategies, ...

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    Supplier article

    Employee benefits: the start of your financial wellbeing strategy

    2019-09-16T08:00:50Z

    Gethin Nadin, Director of Employee Wellbeing, BenefexIt’s now common knowledge among HR and Reward professionals that almost all employees and their work are negatively affected by money worries. Despite this, almost half of employers have yet to roll out a financial wellbeing strategy.For most of us, money is synonymous with ...

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    Case Studies

    Anglian Water provides for financial wellbeing across varied life stages

    2019-09-16T05:00:24Z

    Utilities organisation Anglian Water has approximately 5,000 employees in the UK, half of whom are based across its main office locations, with the remaining half working operationally around the country.With such a varied workforce demographic, which also spans numerous generations, it is important that the organisation’s financial wellbeing support can ...

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    Article

    Daisy Corporate Services launches fitness discount benefit for 1,200 UK staff

    2019-09-13T09:57:53Z

    IT and communications organisation Daisy Corporate Services (DCS) has launched a new gym and fitness discount benefit for its 1,200 UK-based staff.The new benefit, provided by Gympass, was implemented on 23 August 2019 to help empower the organisation's geographically dispersed workforce to focus on physical and mental health, by providing ...

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    Supplier article

    Should company culture come from the top-down or the bottom up?

    2019-09-12T12:56:04Z

    By John StevensCompany culture is effectively an organisation’s personality and in many ways it can be as unique and complex as any individual. Just as our own personalities evolve and shift according to a whole host of environmental factors, it is likely that your business culture will also incur changes ...

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    Opinion

    Lovewell's logic: Help staff avoid becoming a statistic

    2019-09-12T12:07:35Z

    Tuesday 10 September marked this year’s World Suicide Prevention Day. According to statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published just a week earlier, there were 6,507 suicides in the UK during 2018; significantly up on the previous year, and the first increase since 2013.In a trend that has ...

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    Article

    Zurich enhances parental leave and family-friendly policies for 4,500 UK staff

    2019-09-12T10:31:38Z

    Insurance organisation Zurich has enhanced its family-friendly policies for 4,500 UK-based staff; this includes equalising parental leave to offer secondary carers up to 16 weeks of leave at full pay.The paternity enhancement, which will come into effect from 19 December 2019, includes equalising maternity, adoption and paternity leave, so as ...

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    Supplier article

    Help members achieve better outcomes at-retirement

    2019-09-12T09:19:15Z

    This summer, we hosted the ‘help members achieve better outcomes at-retirement’ event at The Shard to discuss how leading employers and Trustees tackle the issues members face at-retirement.The session was hosted by Jonathan Watts-Lay, Director, WEALTH at work and included other key industry professionals including Lesley Sutherland, Group Pensions Manager ...

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    Case Studies

    The benefits offered by The Grand Brighton

    2019-09-12T05:00:53Z

    The benefits offered by The Grand Brighton:PensionsA master trust pension scheme for auto-enrolment purposes, provided by The People's Pension, which follows the minimum statutory contribution rates. There are currently 240 eligible employees within this scheme, because some staff work flexibly or are too young to be eligible.Managers and supervisors are ...

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    Case Studies

    The Grand Brighton reinvigorated benefits package upon becoming independent

    2019-09-12T05:00:53Z

    Luxury seafront hotel The Grand Brighton reinvigorated the benefits and reward package offered to its 300 employees, to align with new corporate values developed when it became an independent entity in January 2018.This change in status empowered its HR and benefits team to revamp its reward offering and set a ...

  • Becky Wright
    Article

    Wright starts at Westfield Health

    2019-09-11T14:44:45Z

    Health and wellbeing provider Westfield Health has appointed Becky Wright as its new chief people officer.Wright, who has more than 10 years’ experience in HR and organisational development, specialises in managing business change while focusing on people and workplace culture.In her new role, Wright will look to take action around ...

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    Supplier article

    Superheroes need help: My experience with EAP and Income Protection

    2019-09-11T07:23:52Z

    Kimberley Williams, Corporate Benefits AdministratorThere are many hats that I wear: mum, wife, family, friend and work colleague to name a few. I try to do the best I can to care for the people in my life, but I’ve struggled to juggle everyone and everything.Suffering in silenceI think the ...

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    Article

    Justin Tomlinson: What are the ramifications of the DWP’s sick pay consultation?

    2019-09-10T05:00:19Z

    When we are not helping those people who want to work stay in employment, everyone loses out. That is why we at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) are consulting on how to create healthier workplaces by supporting more employers to help disabled people and those with health conditions ...

  • Daniel Parker
    Article

    Daniel Parker: What are the ramifications of the DWP’s sick pay consultation?

    2019-09-10T05:00:17Z

    The government’s consultation into statutory sick pay (SSP) contains a number of ostensibly minor tweaks to the SSP regime which, cumulatively, herald more substantial changes than might initially be thought.The most headline-grabbing change is the proposed extension of SSP to workers earning below the existing lower earnings limit of £118 ...