All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 1067
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OpinionTim Middleton: How should pensions communications be adapted for part-time and job-share employees?
Over the past decade, there has been a marked increase in the number of people working part-time. The need for flexibility in the workforce has seen many people take on more than one job and large employers can no longer assume that the majority of their employees are full-time. This ...
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AnalysisInfographic: What is stopping people paying more into pensions?
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AnalysisHow are changing ways of working impacting pensions saving?
Need to know:Employers need to be aware how flexible ways of working, such as sabbaticals, job-shares and part-time working, can impact an employee's pension pot.Employers can encourage retirement savings in the modern workplace through measures such as auto-escalation, bonus sacrifice schemes and the Save More Tomorrow programme.Financial education can be ...
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OpinionLovewell's logic: Should employers do more to support working fathers?
How supportive is your organisation of working fathers? Do they feel able to take parental leave or does this continue to be perceived as a benefit primarily for female employees, particularly in the first year of their child’s life?Research published by Hays in New Zealand earlier this week found that ...
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Supplier articlePodcast: The gender pensions gap
Taking insights from our recent UK Employee Benefits Watch research, we’ve launched the industry’s first and only podcast series. Our experts discuss how to manage a market-leading benefits programme. Are you aware that the pension savings gap between men and women in the UK currently ...
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ArticleIndependent review recommends mental health standards for employers
An independent review into mental health practices in the workplace has recommended six mental health core standards to help employers better support their staff, including employees with poor mental health or wellbeing.The Thriving at work review, which was commissioned by prime minister Theresa May in January 2017, explores how employers ...
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ArticleMears Group to face legal action over holiday pay
Housing maintenance organisation Mears Group is to face legal action for failing to pay Wigan and Leigh-based employees holiday pay.Trade union Unite is bringing the legal action on behalf of approximately 30 of its members who perform housing maintenance work for Mears Group on homes owned by Wigan and Leigh ...
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ArticleIceland reports an unadjusted gender pay gap of 16.1% for 2016
The unadjusted gender pay gap for employees in Iceland was 16.1% in 2016, according to research by Statistics Iceland.Its gender pay gap analysis, which is based on the Structure of earnings survey and represents the difference between average gross hourly earnings of male employees and female employees as a proportion ...
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ArticleTop 10 most read stories: 19-25 October 2017
The top 10 most read stories on www.employeebenefits.co.uk between 19 and 25 October 2017 were: Facebook and Northern Gas and Power among UK's best organisations for workplace cultureHeineken awarded for pensions communicationEXCLUSIVE: 30% of employers plan to prioritise wellbeing for 2018Weetabix Food Company reports a 5.4% mean gender pay gapEXCLUSIVE: ...
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ArticleItalian town pays up to €2,000 to encourage relocation
Something for the weekend: Many organisations opt to send employees on expatriate assignments, with staff and their families relocating across the globe for business benefits. Candela, a small Italian town near Puglia, is using a similar principle to encourage employees to join its workforce, by paying up to €2,000 (£1776.55) ...
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ArticleSodexo reports a 14.9% mean gender pay gap
Facilities management service organisation Sodexo has reported a mean gender pay gap of 14.9% for hourly fixed pay as at April 2017 across its five legal entitles with more than 250 staff in the UK.The organisation has reported its gender pay gap data in line with the government’s gender pay ...
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ArticleManchester City Council signs charter to provide pay protections for care staff
Manchester City Council has committed to delivering pay protections to its employees working in the care sector, including paying staff the voluntary living wage and providing occupational sick pay.The commitment forms part of trade union Unison’s ethical care charter, which Manchester City Council signed on 23 October 2017. The charter ...
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ArticleAdmiral Group and Hilton among world’s best multinational workplaces
Admiral Group, EY, Hilton, Mars and Salesforce are among the 25 global organisations recognised on the 2017 world’s best multinational workplaces list, compiled by Great Place to Work.To feature on the annual list, organisations must have appeared on at least five national best workplaces list, also compiled by Great Place ...
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Spotlight on Sage – three steps towards award-winning benefits engagement
By Jack Curzon, head of scheme design, Thomsons Online BenefitsCreating an award-winning benefits engagement strategy from the ground up can seem like a daunting prospect at first. But, by breaking the challenge down into bite-sized chunks and following a successful blueprint, it is achievable.The Rewards team at Sage were set ...
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Supplier articleThe ‘who, what and why’ you can never forget in employee communication planning
By Megan Gough, head of client communications at Reward GatewayIt’s exciting to launch a new programme. One that you know will delight and engage your employees — you’ve done your homework, you’ve got the leadership team on board and now you’re sitting in a room with the team wondering what ...
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ArticleGovernment consults on draft regulations for the publication of pension costs and charges
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched a consultation on proposed policies and draft regulations that would require occupational pension schemes that offer money purchase benefits to publish transaction costs and charges information.The consultation, which launched on 26 October 2017 and will run until 7 December 2017, seeks ...
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OpinionWill Sandbrook: How can we improve workers’ financial wellbeing today through to retirement?
Over half of employers say that poor financial wellbeing has had a detrimental impact on their workers’ performance, according to The DNA of financial wellbeing report, published by Neyber in May 2017. It is therefore unsurprising that this is an issue on many employers’ minds.Auto-enrolment has certainly helped the UK ...
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ArticlePolice staff and community support officers to receive additional pay rise
Police staff and community support officers (PCSOs) across England and Wales are to receive a total 2% pay increase.The pay award for PCSOs and police staff, which has been agreed by the Police Staff Council, will provide an additional 1% pay rise on top of a planned 1% pay increase.The ...
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ArticleGovernment consults on draft regulations for bulk DC pension transfers without member consent
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched a consultation on draft regulations to simplify procedures around the bulk transfer of defined contribution (DC) pension arrangements without member consent.The consultation, which was launched on 26 October 2017 and will run until 30 November 2017, seeks views on the draft ...
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ArticleArriva North West employees strike over pay
Arriva North West bus drivers and engineering employees are taking part in a 24-hour strike in a dispute over pay.More than 2,000 members of trade unions Unite and GMB who work across 11 depots will take part in industrial action today (30 October 2017), forming picket lines outside all of ...