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UK ranks 11th for work-life balance

Employee Benefits

The UK has been ranked 11th out of 37 countries for its work-life balance – with the Netherlands in the number one spot. Comparison website Small Business Prices analysed a number of factors around the world including average hourly wage; average hours worked per week; minimum annual leave days per year; and happiness scores from World Population Review.

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8 good reasons for employee on-sites in the remote work era

Insperity

The conversation has shifted for organizations with a remote or hybrid workforce. Instead of planning off-site work events to break routine with office life, companies are now planning on-site meetings so their employees can interact face-to-face and get a break from working virtually. Today, we’re sharing some intentional reasons you may want to bring your team on-site, along with a few tips for making it worthwhile for your organization and employees. 8 Good reasons to host employee on-sites.

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Cushon appoints chief people officer

Employee Benefits

Rapidly growing finance technology provider Cushon has appointed experienced HR practitioner Jo Bean as chief people officer. The Dorset-based firm, which recently completed four acquisitions in 12 months, said Bean would focus on embedding values across the expanding business. She will also promote diversity and inclusion activity at Cushon as well as ensuring staff have the tools they need to develop and be successful.

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Challenges the Construction Industry is Facing in 2022

AssuredPartners

The construction industry is one of the largest sectors in the US economy. Nearly $1.4T worth of structures are constructed each year and it employs more than seven million workers across 733,000 businesses. As 2022 kicks off, many of these construction industry professionals will be wondering what issues & challenges we will face in the next 12 months.

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The Ultimate Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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How organizational effectiveness enhances how you work and grow

BetterUp

Jump to section. What is organizational effectiveness? Why is organizational effectiveness important? What is an example of organizational effectiveness? 7 organizational effectiveness models. How to cultivate organizational effectiveness that lasts.

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A Judge Inducted to the College

Florida Workers' Comp

This morning, I write to celebrate Judge Eduardo Almeyda. Next week in New Orleans, the College of Workers' Compensation Lawyers will recognize him by inducting him as a fellow of the College. It is a proud day indeed, for Judge Almeyda and for this Office in which he serves. He joins the ranks of Judges John Lazzara (ret.), Neal Pitts, and Richard Thompson (ret.), along with a great many long-time workers' compensation community attorneys, and legends, like Richard Sicking, Ramon Malca, Dawn Tr

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Amazon Care Plans to Expand Into 20 More Cities in 2022 | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Amazon Care entered the healthcare market in 2019 to service Amazon’s own Seattle-based employees’ healthcare needs. From there, they expanded their service to all Amazon employees and began seeking clients outside of the company. Now, Amazon has set its sights on providing services to clients in 20 different states. Continue reading to learn more about what this expansion entails and how it could affect the future of healthcare.

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What are the emerging 2022 trends in employee experience?

LACE Partners

What are the emerging trends in the EX space? How much of an impact does a mobile-first approach have? What about hybrid? How has the landscape shifted? We explored this and more with our partners at Applaud, following their Digital Employee Experience trends report 2022 report, which you can view here – www.applaudhr.com/2022-digital-emp…erience-trends-0.

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Culture Guides: What They Are and Why You Need One | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Your employee handbook probably isn’t working for you. While the idea behind them is good, most of them are bad in practice because, too often, they focus only on keeping the organization compliant in the year the handbook was written. In the modern workplace, however, employees are not motivated by what their employer needs to do to merely remain compliant.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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Agencies Clarify How Employers Can Charge COVID-19 Vaccine Premium Incentives

McDermott Will & Emery Employee Benefits

US employers have grown increasingly interested in identifying incentives that increase COVID-19 vaccination among employees. The US Departments of Labor, Treasury and Human and Human Services recently issued guidance regarding the application of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) wellness rules to vaccine-related premium surcharges and discounts, clarifying that employers may charge vaccine […].

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Number of employers reporting ethnicity pay gaps plummets

Employee Benefits

The number of UK organisations reporting on their ethnicity pay gap has fallen by 50% in a year, research has revealed. Data collated by HR insights firm HR DataHub showed that 64 organisations published this information in 2021, a decrease from 129 in 2020. The number reporting on ethnicity and pay has fallen below the level seen before the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic – 98 organisations published these statistics in 2019, according to HR DataHub.

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Download our HR Pain Points and Challenges eBook

Benefit Resource Inc.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on business as it is responsible for shifting priorities and changing the way we work. The findings from our recent survey helped us understand what HR pain points and challenges professionals face in their daily lives, which will help guide future changes within this industry. BRI conducted an extensive research project among 1000+ hiring managers to discover pain points they deal with day by day.

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11 Effective Tips to Improve Employee Productivity in 2022

Hppy

Improving employee productivity is the biggest challenge companies are facing across the world. The adaptation of rigorous advancement in technology and the demand of employees to work from home has not given enough time to either employees or companies to settle in this new framework. . The work environment can play a vital role in either improving or reducing an employees’ productivity.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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TrustFord to pay real living wage

Employee Benefits

Car dealership TrustFord will pay its staff the real living wage from 1 April. The firm, which has its headquarters in Colchester and employs more than 3,000 people across the UK, committed to paying the voluntary rate to all non-apprentices. Managed by the Living Wage Foundation, the real living wage is currently set at £9.90 per hour outside London and £11.05 in the capital.

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The Role of Assessments in the Hiring Process | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

The Great Resignation has been weighing heavily on many HR minds these past few months. But of course, one employer’s retention tension can be another’s hiring surge. In fact, LinkedIn , The Atlantic , and Forbes have even referred to this labor trend as the Great Reshuffle on occasion. So, how can recruiters sift through this incoming tide of applicants?

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Confessions of a benefits manager: Candid helps out on a global wellbeing project

Employee Benefits

It is not often I put my hand up for extra work; I have plenty. But when I heard there is a new global project to look at wellbeing , I knew I wanted to get involved. I reach out to Kirsty, who has been elected in the US to run this project. She says she is very keen to have me on board as she is mindful the project needs to include all regions around the world.

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The importance of an environmental contingency plan

Higginbotham

Many external threats are outside of your control, but preparing for them is within your control. A strong environmental contingency plan can help you respond to environmental disasters in a way that minimizes loss, business interruption and liability. Environmental Emergencies and Disasters. When creating an emergency plan, it’s important to consider what events are possible.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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10 Best Payroll Software For All Organisations

Qandle

Payroll software will help managers to handle the entire life cycle of payroll processes. As you know, payroll processing is more than just calculating paychecks. It includes different operations like enrolling employees into company’s payroll, maintaining payroll records, etc. So, every company needs a well designed payroll software to automate the operations.

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$15 minimum wage for federal contractors faces challenges

Business Management Daily

Final regulations issued Nov. 24, 2021, raised the minimum wage for non- exempt employees working for federal contractors to $15, from $11.25, effective for new and renewing federal contracts signed on or after Jan. 30, 2022. The final regulations were the last stop in a long line of administrative proceedings. It started with an Executive Order issued in April 2021, followed by proposed regulations issued July 22, 2021.

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WHY IS EMPLOYEE WELLBEING SO IMPORTANT FOR YOUR BUSINESS?

Employee Benefits

With the economic impact of the virus leading to significant job losses and severe job insecurity, not to mention the fear and uncertainty felt as a result of the dangers of Covid, understanding how you can improve employee wellbeing has never been more important. Champion Health’s Employee Wellbeing Statistics for 2022 revealed that 35% of British workers are negatively impacted by stress. 82% of survey respondents reported experiencing symptoms of anxiety and 74% reported feelings of depressio

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Florida Court Re-examines Valcourt-Williams “Increased Risk” Analysis

The Workcomp Writer

A Florida appellate court held that a state JCC had erred when the JCC denied compensability of a claim in which an employee suffered an unexplained fall as she walked across a carpeted floor and fell into a door as she was leaving the employer’s facility at the end of her workday [ Soya v. Health First, Inc. , 2022 Fla. App. LEXIS 1209 (1st DCA, Feb. 21, 2022)].

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The Complete People Management Toolkit

From welcoming new team members to tough termination decisions, each employment lifecycle phase requires a balance of knowledge, empathy & legal diligence.

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Number of employers reporting ethnicity pay gap plummets

Employee Benefits

The number of UK organisations reporting on their ethnicity pay gap has fallen by 50% in a year, research has revealed. Data collated by HR insights firm HR DataHub showed that 64 organisations published this information in 2021, a decrease from 129 in 2020. The number reporting on ethnicity and pay has fallen below the level seen before the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic – 98 organisations published these statistics in 2019, according to HR DataHub.

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A Quick Guide to Develop Discipline - How to be Disciplined

BetterUp

Jump to section. What’s discipline? Why should I care about building self-discipline? 6 ways to be more disciplined. Final thoughts.

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Webinar: payroll tax year end 2022

cipHR

With the current tax year ending, employers need to be aware of any legislative payroll updates and changes to payroll processes. This must-watch webinar will help your team prepare for those regulatory changes. Join CIPHR for a live webinar on Thursday 10 March as we explore: PAYE changes. Student loans. IR35 . Employment Bill. National Insurance and the Health and Social Care Levy .

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What it Means to Be an Ally in the Workplace

Sodexo Engage

Summary: What is an ally? Different types of allies. How to be a better ally. How to encourage allies in the workplace. What it Means to Be an Ally in the Workplace. Does your organisation reflect the true diversity of society, or does your workforce look remarkably similar? If it’s the latter, your company is far from alone. Building an inclusive workplace is difficult, and it’s easy to feel as though we’ll never be able to have any real impact.

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6 Steps to a Better Compensation Strategy

Compensation is one of your biggest expenses as a business, but it is also your biggest investment in your people and your culture. A great compensation strategy can be an incredible asset that supports your business goals and lays a foundation of trust between your company and your employees. Whether you already have a compensation strategy in place or you’re building one from scratch, this guide will help you level up your approach through these 6 steps: 1.