All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 1436
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ArticleMilk and Honey becomes employee owned
PR agency Milk and Honey has become majority employee owned after transferring 55% of its shares to an employee ownership trust (EOT).This has resulted in 52% of the agency’s 27 members of staff becoming co-owners, qualifying as such after just 12 months in their roles. They can also benefit financially ...
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ArticleGist offers new staff £5,000 bonus
Chilled foods and fresh produce delivery business Gist has offered incentives of up to £5,000 for heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers joining from August in order to boost capability and resources.New recruits have the potential to receive the payout through a combination of a £2,000 sign-on bonus and up to ...
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Supplier article7 in 8 nonparent staff think employers should support working parents
Seven in eight UK financial sector workers who are nonparents agree that employers should provide support to working parents, according to a survey conducted by Bubble For Work.When the pandemic first hit, news headlines were filled with stories of working parents struggling to cope with homeschooling, and an alarming exodus ...
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ArticleWomble Bond Dickinson launches hybrid work model
Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has revealed plans to adopt a hybrid working model at all its UK offices from September.All 1,100 UK employees at the company will have the flexibility to combine home and office working by blending their personal preferences with the needs of the business and ...
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OpinionSam Jardine: Why employers should offer staff mental health support
With Covid-19 (Coronavirus) restrictions easing, employees up and down the country are gearing up again for a return to the office.However, after working from home for months on end and with underlying anxieties surrounding the pandemic understandably still present, our HR team has considered how we can better equip colleagues ...
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Article16% of workers think their mental health is supported
New data has revealed that only 16% of UK employees feel their mental health is very well supported at work, despite 81% wanting their organisation to encourage good mental wellbeing.Healthcare top-up provider Lime has published a report entitled Keeping up appearances: how ‘pleasanteeism’ is eroding resilience, which found that 42% ...
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ArticleBMS promotes Roanne Gibbs to global HR director
Independent specialist insurance and reinsurance broker BMS Group has announced the promotion of Roanne Gibbs to global human resources director.As part of her new role which she began last month (July), Gibbs is responsible for the alignment of the company's HR strategy and initiatives across its businesses around the world. ...
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ArticleBooker drivers to consider strike over pay row
Heavy goods vehicles (HGV) drivers at wholesale business Booker have threatened to hold strike action over a pay dispute.Drivers from Booker Retail Partners’ Thamesmead, London depot are considering industrial action following the company’s attempt to tackle HGV driver shortages. It had put in place a temporary £5 an hour pay ...
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ArticleNext store staff bring equal pay claims
Retail giant Next has conceded that its store workers can compare their roles to that of their colleagues in distribution centres and warehouses in terms of pay.Represented by law firm Leigh Day, currently more than 400 employees have brought equal pay claims against the employer, arguing that their work is ...
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Back to the office: Four ways Recognition can help ease the transition
When Covid-19 first began impacting workplaces, we discussed how social recognition could help ease the move to remote working. Now, as the world prepares to head back to a sense of normality, let’s consider how recognition can make the transition back to work as smooth as possible. Reconnect your furloughed ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits on offer at Global Marine Group
The benefits offered to UK employees at Global Marine Group:PensionA group personal pension (GPP) for all employees with matched contributions at 7.5%.Closed defined benefit (DB) scheme.Healthcare and group riskPrivate medical insurance (PMI) scheme with Axa PPP, employer-funded for all employees.Health cash plan for all employees with Medicash, employee paid.Employee assistance ...
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Case StudiesPodcast: Global Marine Group adapts reward strategy to support staff wellbeing during pandemic
?tynanbarton · Global Marine Group/Employee Benefits podcastListen: Paul Rose, director of HR and talent at Global Marine Group, talks to Employee Benefits about how the organisation adapted its reward strategy to place a high focus on employee wellbeing, especially during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.Rose explains that the offshore engineering orgnisation ...
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Supplier articleHow employer-subsidised childcare can drive growth post-covid
It’s often overlooked, but childcare support has the potential to provide invaluable productivity growth and stability for businesses.Childcare support is essential to any business, yet it's taken the pandemic to make us wake up to this. The Covid-19 pandemic shed an unforgiving light on childcare, magnifying existing barriers to access ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: S4A introduces recognition platform
Childcare provider S4A has implemented a workplace recognition platform to reward and motivate its teams.The company, which employs around 25 members of staff, provides wrap-around and holiday clubs for active and creative childcare in Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire and Oxfordshire.Since employees are spread out across the clubs, actions of individual members of ...
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Article62% would stay in savings scheme if enrolled
More than six in 10 employees would stay in a savings scheme if their employer automatically put them in one, according to new data.The research, which was undertaken by workplace pension and savings provider Cushon, found that this number increased to 69% if the employer contributed too. While 22% are ...
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ArticleJohn Lewis gives drivers £5,000 pay rise
Retailer John Lewis is giving its lorry drivers an annual salary increase of up to £5,000 from Sunday (8 August), as the industry faces worker shortages due to the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic.Around 900 large goods vehicle drivers currently employed by the John Lewis Partnership group, which runs the John Lewis ...
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Supplier articleFive Ways to Keep Employees Engaged During the Summer
It’s not news that employee engagement takes a fall during the summer months. Forbes magazine states that workplace productivity drops 20%, and projects take 13% longer to complete. However, there are many ways you can avoid this drop in efficiency within the workplace.So how can companies encourage employee engagement from ...
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Supplier articleA guide to recognition for hybrid teams : How to keep employees engaged and motivated, wherever they are
We are living in a world of work where hybrid teams are the norm. Whether your organisation is spread across multiple global offices or field-based, there is no set way of working anymore. Where remote employees were once a specific challenge for certain industries, now employees of ...
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Article58% of hospitality employers increased their benefits
New data has found that more than half (58%) of businesses in the hospitality industry have increased their benefits package in the past year.The first quarterly Caterer.com hospitality hiring insider report, which gathered the views of 250 hospitality employers and 2,000 consumers, highlighted how the sector has boosted employee benefits ...
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ArticleBack to bad habits in the workplace
Something for the weekend: Are you longing to return to the office? Well, think again as it may not live up to your expectations. One aspect of workplace life that many employees seem to have forgotten about during the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic lockdowns are the bad habits of some of ...