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Employee Retention – How do Flexible Benefits help? A business’s ability to retain employees, and prevent or reduce the number of employees who choose to leave the business, is known as Employee retention. Being able to increase, or having high employee retention has...
What is EAP? An EAP is a workplace wellness programme. The goal of an EAP is to provide employees with the tools and resources that they need to improve their mental health and help balance their work/life. According to the CIPD: “Mental health-related absence is the...
Sometimes it can all seem a bit of a minefield for employers when it comes to statutory rights to time off for parents. With a variety of “options” and certain rules regarding notice to be given; it is always wise to sense check the latest government regulations....
Getting candidates for a job opening may seem like an easy task, good hours, good salary, advertisement is promoted well and there you have it, however, those with the most skills within the talent pool know their worth and take a lot more than just good salary to...
Employers use competitive remuneration packages to attract and retain the very best employees. Skilled and high-quality talented individuals are constantly in high demand and many businesses are in competition with one another. A good remuneration package adds to an...
The speed, by necessity, of the introduction of Job Retention Scheme continues to leave many questions unanswered. However one area that was clarified by a press release and posted on the daily update from Gov.UK on the 24th April was regarding pay for employees...
When the government first launched the furlough scheme eligible employees had to be on the employer’s PAYE payroll on 28 February 2020. This payroll date has now been extended to 19 March 2020. As a result we have tried to answer some questions that you may have...
The Chancellor announced that “a new Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme” would be set up to help pay people’s wages. Employers will be able to contact HMRC for a grant to cover most of the wages of their workforce who are on the payroll but temporarily not working due...
Emergency Leave Employees are allowed to take time off work to deal with an emergency involving a dependant. A dependant could be a spouse, partner, child, grandchild, parent, or someone who depends on you for care. Employers should grant a reasonable amount of time...
Statutory Parental Bereavement Leave will come into force on 6 April 2020 - are you ready for the change? Losing a baby or child is a devastating experience, therefore in order to provide parents and primary carers with greater support during these difficult period,...
The Court of Appeal recently ruled in the Brazel v The Harpur Trust case that holiday pay for ‘term time’ workers should be calculated using their average earnings over a 12 week period and not-pro-rated. Mrs Brazel was a visiting music teacher employed by The Harpur...
Lifestyle Benefits; creating an employee benefits package that attracts and retains talent Through the development of technology the working week is no longer your typical 9am to 5pm. Research by YouGov highlights only 6% of employees are working these traditional...
In order to keep costs to a minimum and lower employee turnover, employee retention is vital. Retention should be a point of focus in business, as these employees will have an understanding for the company, as well as the valued experience they will have learnt. There...
Any business going into liquidation, no matter how large or small is bound to have consequences for staff and suppliers alike. Some 20,000 employees will be directly affected by the collapse of Carillion yesterday. The snowball effect on companies that supplied...
Get your Employee Benefits in Clover from day 1… If you’re a growing business with a growing team, you’ve probably given some thought to putting together an employee benefits package. At this stage, however, you may be confused by what to include, or concerned about...
