All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 1372
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ArticleThe top 10 most-read articles between 10-16 December 2020
The top 10 most-read stories on employeebenefits.co.uk between 10-16 December 2020 were: Asda to reward front-line staff with 100% bonus and Boxing Day paid leaveJust Eat to offer couriers hourly pay and benefitsAwin to introduce four-day working weekHow are employers recognising employees’ efforts during the Covid-19 pandemic?Maintenance staff at Norfolk ...
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Supplier article5 ways to improve employee wellbeing during the festive period
The festive season is upon us with a week until Christmas! While for many people this brings on much excitement and joy, for others this is not always the case, especially during a global pandemic with so many uncertainties. A lot of stress, anxiety and loneliness is on the cards, ...
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ArticleMaersk completes £1.1 billion bulk annuity buy-in transaction
Danish transportation and energy organisation Maersk has completed a £1.1 billion pensions bulk annuity transaction with Legal and General.The arrangement will secure the defined benefit (DB) pension benefits of 1,900 deferred members and 3,000 retired members of the Maersk Retirement Benefit Scheme, removing their investment and longevity risks from the ...
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ArticleTelegraph Media Group reports 20.5% mean gender and 20.7% ethnicity pay gaps
Telegraph Media Group (TMG) has reported a 20.5% mean gender pay gap, as at April 2020. It has also voluntarily chosen to report its ethnicity pay gap data for the third year, reporting a 20.7% mean difference.Due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, gender pay gap reporting regulations have been suspended ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 33% of organisations offer cash to staff who reach lifetime or annual limits
EXCLUSIVE: A third (33%) of organisations offer cash as an alternative to pension contributions for those employees that reach their lifetime or annual allowance limits, according to research by Employee Benefits.The Employee Benefits Pensions research 2020, which surveyed 94 pension strategy decision-makers found that this year, 49% of respondents that ...
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AnalysisThe Analysis and Development of Employee Benefits
Technology advancements are everywhere, from voice activated home hubs and smart televisions to programmed automotive braking systems.As technology continues to develop, the provision of employee benefits becomes easier than ever before. If you’re wondering how technology can help you as an employer, we’ve listed three questions you need to consider ...
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Supplier articleThe Analysis and Development of Employee Benefits
Technology advancements are everywhere, from voice activated home hubs and smart televisions to programmed automotive braking systems.As technology continues to develop, the provision of employee benefits becomes easier than ever before. If you’re wondering how technology can help you as an employer, we’ve listed three questions you need to consider ...
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Supplier articleTailor-Made or Generic Benefits?
The world is full of compromises and often; they are the only solution to keep the peace. With a compromise, however, no one is left in their ideal situation.As an employer, the biggest challenge when designing an employee benefits programme is delivering a programme that suits everyone without shattering budget ...
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Supplier articleWhat Government easing of Bike Scheme rules means for employees
Popularity of the Bike Scheme has surged throughout 2020, but actually cycling to work hasn't been possible for many.Remote work and furlough for example have meant employees can't meet the 'qualifying journeys' rule of the scheme.In response to this, the UK Government have eased some of their rules around the ...
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Supplier articleWellbeing Wednesdays: A Christmas wrap-up
Gethin Nadin, Director, Employee Wellbeing, BenefexIn this festive round-up of 2020, we take look back at our employee wellbeing journeys and celebrate the astonishing work that HR leaders did in this tumultuous year. In a session entirely driven by the audience’s questions, this discussion looks ahead at the future of ...
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OpinionAlice Meredith: Employee international travel and quarantine
Fluctuations in infection rates in other countries have resulted in short-notice changes to the countries included within the 'travel corridor' exemptions from quarantine requirements. How can employers minimise disruption?PracticalitiesAny employee travelling into England from a non-exempt country is required to self-isolate for a period of 14 days (unless an exempt ...
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Supplier articleBusy Bees Benefits: Improve Retention & Recruitment in 2021
SME’s are integral to the UK economy, with over 99% of UK businesses falling into this category and employing around 60% of all employees in the private sector.Working for an SME rather than a large corporate business has many benefits - greater flexibility, closer connections to the visions and goals ...
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Supplier articleBusy Bees Benefits: Making Pay Go Further
Due to economic uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic in addition to Brexit, many employers have been unable to award pay increases to staff. These factors have in turn been impacting employers in their ability to recruit and retain employees. With this in mind, it’s important to consider how employers ...
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ArticleGender pay gap is widest for those aged over 50
The gender pay gap between full-time male and female employees is widest for those aged over 50, according to analysis from digital community Rest Less.The analysis Office of National Statistics (ONS) pay data, found that the gender pay gap increases with age: the annual salary of a female full-time employee ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Snowflake launches behavioural health app to support employees' mental health
Snowflake has introduced a behavioural health coaching app to support its employees with their mental health.The app, Ginger, provides Snowflake’s international staff members and their families with a programme that can offer support with a range of issues, including stress, anxiety, relationship matters or coaching on specific topics such as ...
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ArticleTesco, Pizza Hut and Superdrug flouted minimum wage rules
Tesco, Superdrug and Pizza Hut are among the 139 organisations identified by the government as having breached minimum wage rules.According to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), these employers underpaid more than 95,000 workers by a total of £6.7 million.The organisations were investigated between 2016 and 2018, ...
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ArticleKaren Mosley: What lessons can employers learn from 2020 for reward strategies in 2021?
If we have learnt anything from the pandemic, it is that radical change can happen overnight. Those things we thought could never happen just did and the level of resilience and open-mindedness both as organisations and as individuals has been accelerated by years; which we must capture and put to ...
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ArticleJosephina Smith: What lessons can employers learn from 2020 for reward strategies in 2021?
As the uncertainty of life beyond the pandemic continues to unfold, predicting the reality of reward strategies in 2021 may not need a crystal ball, but the ability to separate reality from rhetoric.I have learnt from many years supporting organisations with transforming reward functions and consulting on strategy, policy and ...
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ArticleStephanie Houston: What lessons can employers learn from 2020 for reward strategies in 2021?
Across the globe, seismic shifts continue to take place in the workplace. Not only are employers reimagining business models and company values in response to the current climate, but employees, having been exposed to new ways of working, are paying even closer attention to the benefits provided by their employers. ...
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ArticleTUC urges employers to furlough parents affected by school closures
Employers should offer furlough to parents affected by school closures and who lack childcare as a result, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has said.Schools across the UK have been closed until at least mid-February after councils wrote to the education secretary urging closures amid fears of rising infection rates.The Coronavirus ...