Bereavement leave for early pregnancy loss, before 24 weeks, will be included in the Employment Rights Bill. On Tuesday 11 March, business minister Justin Madders confirmed that amendments to...
Read moreDetailsTwo fifths of call centre workers (40 percent) expect to quit their job due to disengagement, research with the industry has revealed. However, the data from Analytics 365, a...
Read moreDetailsMore than £50 million in lost pension savings has been found by Standard Life, in partnership with pension-finding platform Raindrop, in the five months since they launched a new...
Read moreDetailsGovernment plans to give employees the right to claim unfair dismissal from day one were called “reckless” and “blind to the economic damage that they are about to unleash”...
Read moreDetailsClose to a quarter of HR professionals (24 percent) do not know what type of workplace pension scheme their organisation offers, suggesting a lack of pension understanding and, potentially,...
Read moreDetailsNearly a third (31 percent) of employers expect employee demand for mental health support to increase this year, research has found. A survey of 500 UK HR decision makers...
Read moreDetailsGovernment plans to reduce civil service headcount by introducing performance-related pay should not be necessary, an employment expert has warned. Jim Moore, employee relations expert at HR consultants Hamilton...
Read moreDetailsWellbeing among younger workers requires greater attention as research reveals they are more than twice as likely to take extended sick leave than older colleagues. Two-thirds (66 percent) of...
Read moreDetailsThirty percent of women say they feel underappreciated at work, compared to just 20 percent of men. Workers in traditionally female-dominated industries, including healthcare, education, and hospitality, report the...
Read moreDetailsFemale tech leaders have championed advances in women's health benefits ahead of International Women’s Day on 8 March, 2025. At an event hosted by health and wellbeing provider Wellhub,...
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The podcast from Benefits Expert, the title for HR, reward and benefits professionals.
Seasoned professionals examine the challenges and innovations in today’s employee benefits, reward and HR sector. Every episode, they will unbox a key issue and unpack what it really means for employers and how they can tackle it.
The regulars are Claire Churchard, editor of Benefits Expert; Carole Goldsmith, HR director at the Royal Horticultural Society, and Steve Herbert, consultant and rewards & benefits veteran.
Return-to-office mandates are a topic that’s generating plenty of heat in the media, but how closely do the headlines match workplace reality?
In this episode, one of a three-part series of 10-minute podcasts, hosts Claire Churchard and Steve Herbert discuss data that shows remote or home working is on the rise.
We look at what this means for HR, from balancing employee flexibility with business needs, to ensuring benefits packages remain fair and accessible. We discuss the pinch points, and the opportunities, in building the new normal of work.
