All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 1135
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Supplier articleEngage or die: Act fast on engagement and outpace the competition
Written by Ruth Chapman, Senior Marketing Manager, Achievers EMEAThe latest report from Gallup states that just 1 in 10 UK and EU workers are actively engaged and with UK productivity seeing further falls during 2017, according to the Office for National Statistics – it is no surprise that the UK ...
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ArticleB Braun Medical holds learning and personal development week
Sheffield-based healthcare organisation B Braun Medical has hosted a learning and personal development week for its 1,400 employees.The Learnfest Week, which was held between 11 and 15 June 2018, was designed to encourage employees towards lifelong learning opportunities, support personal development and drive improvements in productivity.Over the course of the ...
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ArticleDirect Line Group extends family-friendly benefits for 10,000 staff
Insurance organisation Direct Line Group has today (Thursday 26 July 2018) extended its family-friendly benefits for 10,000 UK-based employees.The organisation's maternity and adoption benefit will now enable eligible employees to take up to 20 weeks of fully paid leave, as well as an additional 12-week phased return-to-work period, also fully ...
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Article65% of UK employees believe they are underpaid
Under two-thirds (65%) of employees think they are underpaid, but this rises to 94% among employees based in Aberdeen, according to research by recruitment website CV Library.Its survey of 1,200 UK employees also found that 76% of respondents in Edinburgh believe they are underpaid, compared with 71% of those working ...
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Supplier articleAre you listening to your employees?
Your employees can tell you exactly what your benefits programme should look like, but are you listening?Our research found that what today’s employees really want is a range of benefits, accessible in a variety of ways, to help them achieve their personal goals. Organisations need to look at how they ...
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Supplier articleThe multiplier effect in Employee Engagement
The race to acquire, engage and retain the right employees in a business is ongoing and as always, ever-challenging. Competition is high, turnover is expensive and employees want job satisfaction and to be engaged more so than ever before. Employee engagement is one area which all HR teams and leaders ...
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ArticleTop 10 most read stories: 19-25 July 2018
The top 10 most read stories on www.employeebenefits.co.uk between 19 and 25 July 2018 were: WeWork refuses to serve meat to 6,000 global employeesThe Pensions Regulator to conduct new round of spot checks for auto-enrolment non-complianceEXCLUSIVE: City and Guilds Group launches online financial educationBarclays, Herbert Smith Freehills and Vodafone recognised ...
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Your employees need you! 4 ways to support their wellbeing
Wellbeing; the buzzword on the mind of every employer in 2018. We all know from the multitude of articles on the subject that offering a wellbeing programme is all about providing benefits and services to maximise your employees’ mental, physical and financial health. Yet a lot of employers forget to ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid helps with performance management
The Higher Beings - our management team - are not known for asking for advice. They could have asked me, or even Big Bad Boss, but instead they’ve gone and engaged a management consultant to look at performance management. I feel pretty miffed. We have tons of experience on the ...
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Needmain widespread. It’s essential for HRs to get to grips with this sensitive issue. Getting the basics – such as a current policy which all staff are familiar with – in place is the first step.
Need to know:Workplaces can be a hotbed for sexual harassment, with almost two in three young women experiencing it at work. Despite the “Me too” movement, problems remain widespread.It’s essential for HRs to get to grips with this sensitive issue. Getting the basics – such as a current policy which ...
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OpinionAmbika Fraser: The pathway to good mental health
Absences due to stress and mental ill-health are becoming higher priority issues for employers and HR departments. According to Health and Wellbeing at Work, published by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) in May 2018, the number of employees experiencing mental health issues is on the rise, and ...
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ArticleSilicon Valley bans Facebook from giving staff free food
Something for the weekend: Silicon Valley, the US home to technology giants Google and LinkedIn, has banned social media organisation Facebook from providing free food on-site for its 2,000 employees.City officials have implemented the unusual mandate, which aims to generate business for local restaurants, in preparation for when the organisation's ...
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The Big Question: Should employers be encouraging employees to take a pre-tirement sabbatical?
It’s going to be the new norm. Taking time out in later life will become as commonplace as a gap year is for the 21-year-old graduate. Our research with companies and employees has shown that once you open a few ‘windows’ (they don’t even have to be doors!) onto what ...
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ArticleSupreme Court of California rules in favour of Starbucks employee in compensation case
The Supreme Court of California has ruled that a Starbucks employee, and a corresponding class of non-managerial staff, must be paid for store-closing tasks that are performed after employees have formally clocked out.The case, Troester v Starbucks, regards Douglas Troester, a former shift supervisor who worked at coffee retail chain ...
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Article2.2 million employees missing out on legal holiday entitlement
The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has warned today (Friday 27 July 2018) that one in 12 UK workers - an estimated 2.2 million people - are not getting their legal holiday entitlement. Of these employees, 1.2 million have not received any paid leave at all.UK workers are entitled to 5.6 ...
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ArticleGoogle and Hallmark Cards rank among America's best employers for women 2018
Google (pictured), Hallmark Cards, Harvard University and Principle Financial Group are among the organisations recognised on the America's best employers for women 2018 list, compiled by business media organisation Forbes and market research firm Statista.To compile the final list, which comprises 300 US-based organisations, more than 40,000 employees of organisations ...
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ArticleTPR launches consultation on draft policy for master trust supervision
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has launched a consultation into the draft policy that will supervise and regulate master trust pension schemes once master trust authorisation is introduced from October 2018.As of October, master trust schemes will have six months to apply to TPR to be able to continue operating in ...
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ArticleSynechron hires Screene
Global financial services consultancy and technology provider Synechron has appointed Samantha Screene as associate director of HR.Screene, who has more than 20 years of industry experience across sectors such as retail, insurance, pharmaceuticals, defence, telecoms and the NHS, will be based at Synechron's London office.In her new position, Screene will ...
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Supplier articleHow to keep your team connected on-the-go (anytime or anywhere)
By Catrin Lewis, Internal Communications ManagerHow many office locations do you have? One, two, 10 or 100? It’s hard, isn’t it? Keeping everyone on the same page. As the Internal Communications Manager at Reward Gateway, I struggle myself and have to constantly re-evaluate our approach to employee communications. I was ...
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Supplier articleBenefits in the digital age: 5 secrets of success
The world of work has been transformed over the last decade. The rise of technology, the internet and the super-computers that virtually all of us carry in our pockets have revolutionised our interactions with one another, the dynamic between employer and employee, and the way that we seize opportunities.Download the ...