Benefits Unboxed
The podcast from Benefits Expert, the title for HR, reward and benefits professionals
Benefits experts delve into the challenges and innovations in benefits, reward and HR that employers need to know about.
Every episode, they will unbox a key issue and unpack what it really means for employers and how they can tackle it. The hosts and guests look at how these issues are evolving, what to expect and why it matters for employers.
Podcast hosts Claire Churchard, editor of Benefits Expert, Carole Goldsmith, HR director at the Royal Horticultural Society, and Steve Herbert, consultant and rewards and benefits veteran, are joined by special guests.
Episode 2 – Government plans to overhaul pay: how it affects employers
Labour’s ‘Plan to make work pay: delivering a new deal for working people’ is certainly ambitious. Now the party is in government, what will it mean in practical terms?
We examine potential changes to workers rights, the move towards what the government has described as a genuine living wage, and plans to reboot efforts to close the gender pay gap and extend pay reporting to ethnicity and disability.
The hosts are joined by special guest Matt Jenkin, partner, employment, at law firm Herrington Carmichael.
Episode 1 – Hidden heroes: invisible carers in your workforce
Discover the hidden challenges of the invisible carers in your workforce and get to the root of why 600 people a day are leaving their jobs to care for others.
This episode explains how employers can better support carers in their workforce and prevent the loss of talent and skills from among the 2.5 million unpaid carers in England and Wales.
The hosts are joined by guest Madeleine Starr MBE, director of Carer Services at Carers UK.
