All articles by Zoe Wickens – Page 236
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ArticleGroup risk industry paid record claims to employees in 2020
Research by Group Risk Development (Grid) has revealed the UK group risk industry paid a record £2.01 billion in claims to employees and dependants in 2020.This is equivalent to £5.5 million a day and an increase of £255.7 million since 2019. A total of 4,476 employees were helped back to ...
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ArticleForth Ports recruits Michelle Primrose as group HR manager
Ports group Forth Ports has appointed Michelle Primrose as its new group HR manager.Primrose will be based in the port of Grangemouth with responsibility for HR across the company's eight ports. She will join the senior management team and report to group chief executive Charles Hammond.She has held previous HR ...
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ArticleGlobal Marine Group launches flexible working and wellbeing initiative
Telecommunications and offshore renewables company Global Marine Group (GMG) has launched a remote working programme to allow its employees across the world to have more control over their flexible working and wellbeing.GMG Evolution has been designed to encourage remote working for all 900 members of staff, who work in multiple ...
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ArticleO2 employees to receive £1,930 boosted bonus
Telecommunications company O2 has rewarded its employees with a boosted £1,930 bonus as a result of its record first-quarter results.The company, which is part of Telefonica UK, reported its highest ever first-quarter profit in its history this year, an increase of 7.6% from last year. Because of this, O2 surprised ...
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ArticleThe top 10 most-read articles between 6 May – 12 May 2021
The top 10 most-read stories on employeebenefits.co.uk between 6 May – 12 May 2021 were: Dixons Carphone announces 9% pay rise and investment in staff wellbeingKPMG unveils flexible hybrid working modelHow can employees make flexible working schemes relevant post-pandemic? Improving morale with Ed SheeranHas workplace menopause support improved in recent ...
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ArticleScandic Hotels hires Fredrik Wetterlundh as chief HR officer
Nordic hotel company Scandic Hotels Group has appointed Fredrik Wetterlundh as its new chief human resources officer.Wetterlundh, who is due to start in August, will become a member of Scandic’s executive committee.Up until recently, he worked at Ericsson and was responsible for driving change leadership, developing corporate culture and boosting ...
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ArticleMedway Community Healthcare introduces occupational health services
Medway Community Healthcare has revealed plans to offer its staff a range of occupational health services.The social enterprise, which works to help and improve local communities, will provide employees across the organisation with pre-employment health assessments, referral assessments and management, and vaccination and immunity testing.The services will be provided by ...
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ArticleEdwin James Group trains staff as mental health first aiders
Engineering company Edwin James Group has chosen 10 employees to become mental health first aiders to support the wellbeing of its 1,000-strong workforce.The selected members of staff, who come from across the business, have taken part in an intensive two-day course with St Johns Ambulance. The course focused on recognising ...
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Article50% of staff would sacrifice salary for personalised benefits
Research by MetLife UK has revealed that half of employees would sacrifice some of their salary for personalised benefits.The study was compiled as part of the fourth and final chapter of MetLife’s Re:Me report, redefine, which found that almost seven in 10 (69%) people admitted they would work harder for ...
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ArticleLADbible offers paid leave for pregnancy loss and fertility treatments
Image credit: Sharaf Maksumov / Shutterstock.comPublisher LADbible Group has introduced fully paid leave for employees who suffer pregnancy loss or are undergoing fertility treatment, as well as offering a workplace nursery benefit so staff can recover tax savings on childcare costs.The policies will be introduced under the banner LADfamily and ...
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Article75% of employers do not have formal diversity and inclusion framework
Polling by pension consultants Barnett Waddingham has revealed more than three-quarters of respondents do not yet have a formal framework in place for diversity and inclusion (D&I).The research was compiled at Barnett Waddingham's latest conference, The DNA Experience, where attendees were surveyed in order to understand the sentiment of UK ...
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Article26% of UK businesses plan to close or downsize their offices
A quarter of UK businesses will either close, downsize or consolidate their offices in the coming months of 2021, according to findings from workforce experience platform Applaud.The research, which was conducted by YouGov in April 2021, found 53% of 500 small, medium and large organisations plan to offer more flexible ...