All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 1341
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ArticleTake part in Employee Benefits pensions research for a chance of winning £100 voucher
How is Covid-19 impacting employees’ behaviour around pensions? How are organisations providing financial education with a largely mobile workforce and how are organisations communicating these benefits?Employee Benefits' readers can now benchmark their approach to pensions and retirement by participating in this year’s exclusive Employee Benefits pensions research. The survey aims ...
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ArticleSunderland City Council to pay employees the real living wage
Sunderland City Council is to pay all UK employees at least the voluntary living wage, improving base salaries for any of its 3,000 members of staff who fall within this pay bracket.Effective immediately, the organisation will pay lower-level employees at least £9.30 an hour, in line with the living wage ...
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Article67% of employees want more financial wellbeing support from their employers
Just over two-thirds (67%) of employees feel unsupported by their organisation when it comes to financial wellbeing, according to research by Nudge Global.Its survey, which surveyed more than 2,000 employees and HR professionals, also found as little as just under one in 20 (7%) were confident in speaking with their ...
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Supplier articleWhat does Reward and recognition mean to you?
Reward and recognition go hand-in -hand, yet are two different components. Recognition is often viewed as the cause, and reward as the effect. Employee reward and employee recognition both have important roles to play in engaging and motivating staff so it’s no surprise that many HR professionals have taken to ...
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Supplier articleThe age of agility: Flexible, adaptable and resilient benefits
Thomson’s Online Benefits’ latest report looks at the shifting objectives of over 500 HR and benefits professionals at multinational organizations, specifically as they relate to benefits and technology. With over 2000 individuals surveyed, Thomson’s findings reveal if the benefits and technology experience employees receive from employers measures ...
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Case StudiesQuilter focuses on employees' mental and physical health during pandemic
Quilter is a financial services organisation providing advice, investments and wealth management in the UK and internationally. It employs around 4,500 people across its hubs in London, Newcastle and Southampton, but also in smaller offices throughout the UK and overseas.When lockdown was announced, employees’ health and wellbeing was a priority. ...
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AnalysisWhat long-term health and wellbeing lessons can employers learn from the Covid-19 pandemic?
Need to know:Greater awareness of mental health problems associated with Covid-19 (Coronavirus) will make employers and employees more comfortable to discuss this area of health.The pandemic could drive health and wellbeing benefit redesign, with greaterfocus on prevention, digital services and personalisation.Organisations are seeking more frequent feedback from employees to better ...
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OpinionHoma Wilson: Employers need to be aware of the mental wellbeing pressures caused by the pandemic
There is little doubt that the global Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic will have ongoing mental health implications for the population. Research undertaken by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), The mental health effects of the first two months of lockdown and social distancing during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK, published ...
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ArticleThe Pensions Regulator forces former chief executive to pay £286,852
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has forced the former chief executive of Yateley Industries to pay £286,852 to compensate members of a charity pension scheme that he defrauded.Pattrick McLarry, aged 72, who was CEO of Yateley Industries for the Disabled, a charity dedicated to supporting vulnerable adults, stole over £250,000 from ...
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ArticleNHS Wales general practice staff to receive 2.8% pay rise
NHS Wales general practice staff will receive a 2.8% pay increase, aligning their pay with contract recommendations by the Review Body on Doctors' and Dentists' Remuneration.The pay increase, which rewards general practitioners (GPs) and their employees for their hard work during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, will come into effect immediately ...
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Echelon Health
At Echelon Health, we are committed to creating an Individual or Corporate Health Assessment package that works for you and your team. We firmly believe that prevention is better than cure. Often an individual is unaware of any medical conditions they may have as they have never been ‘checked out’ ...
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ArticleUSS launches consultation on changes to pension scheme's 2020 valuation
The Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) has launched a consultation with Universities UK (UUK) on key changes of the pension scheme’s 2020 valuation.The consultation will determine the pension contributions required by employees working in the UK university sector. Based on initial proposals put forward by USS, and depending on which employers ...
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Supplier articleBloomberg Podcast: Working From Home Ultimately Hurts Businesses
As Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares a big push to get workers back into office buildings, Dan Vahdat, CEO of digital health and therapeutics company Huma, joins Daybreak Europe’s Roger Hearing to discuss the disconnect between some employers and workers on heading back into offices. Click here ...
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OpinionAlastair Currie: How to support employees making the return to work
Owing to the pandemic, according to figures by the Office of National Statistics (ONS), an estimated 7.5 million UK jobs were put on furlough between 20 April and 10 May 2020, with that figure coming close to almost a quarter of the British population.Organisations need to be particularly sensitive when ...
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ArticleVeolia introduces share scheme for 140,000 employees
French environmental services organisation Veolia has introduced a new share scheme for its 140,000 employees.Employees will be able to opt in to buy shares, based on the average share price on the French stock exchange set on 5 November 2020, minus an employee 20% discount and rounded up to the ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Microsoft UK to discuss the new normal at Employee Benefits Reset 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Tim Robertson, UK compensation and benefits lead at multinational technology organisation Microsoft UK, will discuss how the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has shaped the future of the benefits and reward market at Employee Benefits Reset 2020.The session titled ‘HR and the new normal’ will be the opening keynote session on ...
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Article29% of employers concerned about staff wellbeing during Covid-19
Just under one-third (29%) of small businesses are concerned that the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic is having a negative affect on the wellbeing of their employees, according to research by Worklife.The research, published September 2020, that surveyed 750 senior financial and HR decision-makers in the UK with 5 - 250 employees, ...
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Supplier articleFive ways to support your employees’ mental health in the workplace
2020 has been – oh, go on, let’s say it – an unprecedented year: COVID-19 has brought unforeseen challenges and upheaval on a huge scale, fundamentally changing the way we socialise, travel, shop and work. Successful organisations have remained sensitive to these developments and conscious of their inevitable toll on ...
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ArticleBolton NHS Foundation Trust reports 29.4% mean gender pay gap
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust has reported a mean gender pay gap of 29.4% for average hourly pay as at April 2020.The organisation, which currently has over 5,000 employees, reported its gender pay gap data in line with the government’s gender pay gap reporting regulations.The reporting regulations require organisations with 250 ...
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Supplier articlePing pong holds the secret to post-Covid employee benefits
Employee Benefits. Table Tennis. There’s not an obvious connection. But the attitudes towards this mini game of back and forth could be telling.It’s March 2020, and things are a bit weird. Scrap that, things are unprecedented. We’re all being confined to our homes to escape a threat that we don’t ...