All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 1240
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ArticleVodafone hires Chanrai
Telecommunications organisation Vodafone has hired Kaammini Chanrai as its new UK diversity and inclusion manager.Chanrai has experience as a project manager and has led organisational transformation work in both the charity sector and local government. She is passionate about equality and women’s rights.Previously, Chanrai worked as gender research and policy ...
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AnalysisSupport strategies: Employee wellbeing in numbers
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Supplier articleEmployee culture: what can millennials teach us about the modern workplace?
It can sometimes seem that so-called ‘millennials’ – basically anyone born between 1981 and 1996 – have a slightly unfavourable reputation when it comes to their position in the workplace. All too often, we read reports that this group has a poor work ethic and an obsession with screens, or ...
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ArticlePots and Co seeks part-time pudding taster for work-from-home role
Image credit: @pots_and_coSomething for the weekend: Luxury dessert organisation Pots and Co is seeking a part-time pudding taster to offer feedback on its chocolate and fruit-filled delicacies for a wage of £15 an hour.Pots and Co posted the job advertisement on its LinkedIn page, asking for sweet-toothed dessert lovers to ...
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ArticlePoll: 27% offer insurance benefits to support staff working with cancer
Employee Benefits poll: More than a quarter (27%) of Employee Benefits readers offer staff who are working with cancer insurance benefits, such as income protection or critical illness insurance.A straw poll of www.employeebenefits.co.uk readers, which received 26 responses, also found that 23% of respondents support staff experiencing cancer by providing ...
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ArticleGeisinger launches paid parental leave for 32,000 staff
US-based healthcare organisation Geisinger has launched a new paid parental leave benefit for its 32,000 employees, effective from 1 September 2019.The leave initiative enables all full and part-time employees with at least six months' service, to take up to two weeks of fully paid leave upon the arrival of a ...
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ArticleDefined benefit pension deficit increases to £340 billion as at August 2019
The deficit for defined benefit (DB) pension schemes in the UK has increased by £100 billion between July and August 2019, reaching £340 billion as at the end of August 2019, according to research by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC).The Skyval index, which is based on aggregated data from 5,450 corporate DB pension ...
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ArticleHaywards Heath-based Serco Environmental Services staff vote to accept pay deal
Staff employed by public services organisation Serco Environmental Services, based at its Bridge Road depot in Haywards Heath, have voted to accept a new pay deal, mitigating strike action that was due to take place yesterday (Thursday 5 September 2019).The deal, negotiated with trade union GMB and the Advisory, Conciliation ...
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Supplier article
Spectrum Life
Spectrum.Life is an innovative, integrated workplace wellness platform designed to make wellbeing programmes easier for HR professionals to manage in one place, and more engaging for employees to participate in.Access a unique marketplace through the employer portal to book onsite workplace wellness activities, from mental health seminars to fitness classes ...
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Supplier articleAligning benefits and business
How can you build or adapt your benefits scheme to ensure it aligns with your business strategy?According to research, employees are missing one thing from their working lives: value. Do they see the value in the work they’re doing? Do they feel valued for the effort they put in? Are ...
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Supplier articleMy own reward and recognition journey as a manager
By Becs Thomas, Corporate Client Success Team Manager at Reward GatewayLast year, I had a big stepping stone in my career. I went from managing two people to eight. The level of responsibility grew for me, but I also had another weight on me: How to make my team feel ...
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ArticleBritish Airways pilots strike for the first time in pay dispute
Pilots employed at airline British Airways, who are members of the British Airline Pilots Association (Balpa) trade union, are undertaking three-days of strike action starting today (Monday 9 September 2019), in an ongoing pay dispute.Balpa members who work at British Airways voted 93% in favour of industrial action; strikes are ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Metropolitan Police to discuss retention of women at Employee Benefits Live
EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Billington (pictured), HR diversity and inclusion lead at the Metropolitan Police, will share her organisation’s journey around improving the retention of female employees to impact the gender pay gap at Employee Benefits Live 2019.Her session, titled ‘Breaking down gender barriers and closing the gender pay gap’, will be ...
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ArticleThérèse Coffey appointed secretary of state for work and pensions
Conservative MP Thérèse Coffey (pictured) is the new secretary of state for work and pensions, replacing Amber Rudd MP.Coffey, who was elected as MP for Suffolk Coastal in May 2010, was appointed to her new office on Sunday 8 September 2019.Previously, Coffey served as the minister of state at the ...
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Supplier articleHow you can help keep your staff healthy this winter
It might seem a bit early to be planning your employees' wellbeing for this winter. But planning early could make a huge difference to your staff sickness absence. A minor illness, such as flu, is the most common cause for short-term sickness among employees in the UK. And can even ...
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Supplier articleInfographic: Innovation generation: explaining the HR tech disconnect
Thomsons Online Benefits’ research found that the top global benefits strategy objectives of 2019 are attracting and retaining talent and enhancing employee engagement.Technology is integral for organizations to achieve these objectives. However, there is a disconnect between how HR professionals approach technology and how they are using it in practice. ...
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Supplier articleBack to School!
September is upon us, the long summer holidays are over, and so we start the new academic year with great enthusiasm and drive in our vision for people of all ages to learn how to get to grips with their money. We believe a critical part of our work is ...
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ArticlePaul Deemer: What are the ramifications of the DWP’s sick pay consultation?
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) consultation into statutory sick pay (SSP) seeks views on ways both government and employers can take action to reduce job loss related to ill health.The consultation opens the door for further discussion on how chronic illnesses or disabilities are dealt with in workplaces ...
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ArticleDaniel Parker: What are the ramifications of the DWP’s sick pay consultation?
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 ...