All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 1348
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Supplier articleEmployee Benefits Awards: June 2022
The Employee Benefits Awards, now in its 20th year, celebrates the outstanding people, initiatives and strategies in the employee benefits industry. The Awards provides an opportunity for key players working in HR, reward and benefits to come together to celebrate performance and excellence across the industry. The high-profile event is ...
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ArticleRichard Thomas: What does the end of the furlough scheme mean for reward strategies?
The UK Government’s Job Retention Scheme was set up urgently to support employers and protect employees during lockdown.The scheme offered short and much-needed respite to distressed businesses, preventing hundreds of thousands of employees being made redundant. It has also boosted businesses which were less directly impacted by the crisis. This ...
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OpinionAmanda Glover and Helen Beech: What Arcadia’s u-turn and apology means for business
Although Arcadia's u-turn will be welcomed by its employees facing redundancy, Arcadia would have been well within its legal rights to pay certain employees a reduced rate of notice pay. Emergency legislation was rushed into force on 31 July 2020 when the government became aware of several employers relying on ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Fujitsu to discuss prioritising the gender pay gap at EB Reset 2020
EXCLUSIVE: Karen Thomson, diversity and inclusion lead at Fujitsu UK and Ireland, will discuss closing the gender pay gap and the benefits it brings at Employee Benefits Reset 2020.The session titled 'Gender pay: keeping gaps closed in times of flux' will take place on 7 October at 2.30 pm in ...
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ArticleAer Lingus offers employees voluntary leave schemes
Irish airline Aer Lingus has offered its employees a number of voluntary leave programmes to deal with the financial constraints of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.The airline is offering a winter leave programme ,which is available to its Shannon-based cabin crew. This will give employees a chance to take six months ...
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Article90% of employers have introduced mental wellbeing benefits during the pandemic
Nine in 10 (90%) of employers in Europe have taken positive steps to look after the mental health and wellbeing of their employees during the pandemic, according to research by Littler. Its European Employer Covid-19 2020 research published in September 2020, which surveyed 750 European employers, also found that almost ...
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Supplier articleWinter is coming: what to do next.
Winter is coming! Try to say it using your best Sean Bean impersonation. Even those living under rocks, or with their heads firmly buried in the sand, will not have escaped to notice the hard truth that it is going to be one of the toughest winters in living memory.In ...
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ArticleJoanne Frew: What does the end of the furlough scheme mean for businesses
The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (CJRS) was announced by the government on 20 March 2020 in response to the coronavirus pandemic. A scheme of this size would ordinarily take two years to plan and develop but was rushed out in a matter of weeks to help support employers and employees. ...
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ArticleDean Hochlaf: What does the end of the furlough scheme mean for businesses
Concerns are growing that the government’s furlough scheme is being brought to a premature end. Since its inception, the furlough scheme has been a lifeline for many, supporting almost nine million workers at its peak. Without the option to furlough workers, many businesses who found their revenue streams dry in ...
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ArticleIan Hodson: What does the end of the furlough scheme mean for reward strategies?
The ending of the government's Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the utilisation of furlough leave is going to present us with a whole new set of challenges to navigate around in respect of our broader reward and recognition plans, along with the wellbeing support that is required.We are likely to ...
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Supplier articleEmployee Engagement and what we can learn from Customer Loyalty [e-Book]
The art of customer loyalty is a longstanding and recognised expertise. People invest heavily in tracking and understanding customer behaviour to increase sales and keep their existing customers loyal, think supermarkets, high street shops’ loyalty cards and airline customer loyalty schemes. These are all highly strategic, scientific schemes with investment ...
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ArticleFujitsu reports 12.3% mean gender pay gap
Fujitsu has reported a mean gender pay gap of 12.3% for average hourly pay as at April 2020.The organisation, which has 8,000 employees, reported its gender pay gap data ahead of the government’s regulations which require gender pay gap figures for 2020/2021 to be published by 4 April 2021.The reporting ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 89% of employers offer employee assistance programmes
Employee assistance programmes remain the most popular support or counselling benefits that organisations provide, as offered by 89% of respondents as a core benefit, according to research by Employee Benefits.The Employee Benefits Healthcare research 2020, which surveyed 200 HR decision-makers, found that this has decreased slightly from the 93% that ...
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ArticleDeloitte reduces partner pay by 17%
Deloitte's UK 709 equity partners will experience a 17% pay cut following a decline in the organisation's financial growth during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.For the year ending May 2020, Deloitte's UK equity partners will receive an average payment of £731,000. This is down from £882,000 for the previous financial year. ...
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ArticleMaldives resort offers luxury beach houses for employees working remotely
Something for the weekend: Holiday resort The Nautilus Maldives is offering people the opportunity to work remotely at one of itsluxurious beach housesin Baa Aatoll.The private workspaces, with views of the ocean, are kitted out with everything staff might need to create a fully functioning office space including a computer, ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid rebrokes employee discounts
This year, like everyone, we are faced with a big challenge. We have made quite a lot of redundancies, and the people who are left are having to do more work for less money, we are not giving any pay rises, and we cannot add any new benefits. So, how ...
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ArticleThe top 10 most read stories: 24 September – 30 September
The top 10 most read stories between 24 September and 30 September on employeebenefits.co.uk were: Greene King gives 38,000 employees early access to payUK government to top up wages of staff working reduced hoursLidl introduces fitness programme for 25,000 employeesPricewaterhouseCoopers extends remote-working policyExclusive: 27% of staff working remotely are evaluating ...
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ArticleIndeed introduces new flexible-working policy for 10,000 employees
Recruitment search engine Indeed is offering its 10,000 employees a new flexible working policy, following on from the change in working patterns that were put in place due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.Dependent on their role within the organisation, employees will have the optionto either workfull-time in the office ...
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ArticleUK government changes law to ensure maritime workers receive national minimum wage
Over 10,000 maritime employees in the UK will receive pay protection and the national minimum wage, following on from a change in the law introduced on 1 October 2020.Up until this point, the maritime industry was the only sector in the UK that had not been protected by the UK ...