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Zoe Wickens is a journalist with five years of experience writing for trade and business to business publications. She joined Employee Benefits as a reporter in May 2021 and writes news and features content for the website. She won the Willis Towers Watson pay, reward and employee benefits journalist of the year award in 2023. Before writing about the HR, reward and benefit industry she worked as a reporter for publications about the optical and eyewear market and the UK stock market.

    • Benefits
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    • Pay & benefits

    Employee Benefits Live 2024: Unknotting your global benefits tangle

    by Zoe Wickens 5 Sep 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 5 Sep 2024

    Merlin Entertainments' Janet McKenzie will present the closing keynote on the first day of Employee Benefits Live 2024.

    • Carers
    • Latest News

    Eight in 10 carers would support paid leave right

    by Zoe Wickens 27 Aug 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 27 Aug 2024

    Four in five (80%) of carer employees said that additional paid carer’s leave would help them to balance work and caring responsibilities, according to new research.

    • Latest News
    • Gender pay gap

    EHRC names employers failing to report gender pay gap data

    by Zoe Wickens 1 Aug 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 1 Aug 2024

    Equality watchdog names six organisation that have failed to report their gender pay gap data to the government.

    • Case law
    • Latest News
    • Pensions

    Court of Appeal upholds Virgin Media pension ruling

    by Zoe Wickens 29 Jul 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 29 Jul 2024

    Court of Appeal upholds ruling that a written actuarial confirmation was needed for changes to Virgin Media pension scheme’s rules.

    • Gender
    • Latest News
    • Workplace culture

    Softcat and Hilton named some of UK’s Best Workplaces for Women

    by Zoe Wickens 23 Jul 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 23 Jul 2024

    IT service management business Softcat and Hilton hotel chain named some of the UK’s Best Workplaces for Women 2024.

    • Latest News
    • Ireland
    • Maternity and paternity

    Ireland extends parent’s leave benefit allowance

    by Zoe Wickens 23 Jul 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 23 Jul 2024

    Irish government announces it will extend parents' leave benefit allowance from seven weeks to nine weeks as of next month.

    • Carers
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    • Family-friendly benefits

    BT Group to roll out new family leave policy

    by Zoe Wickens 16 Jul 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 16 Jul 2024

    Telecoms giant BT Group is to roll out a new family leave policy for its UK employees from 1 January 2025.

    • Latest News
    • Retail
    • Save As You Earn

    Tesco employees to receive £30 million from share schemes

    by Zoe Wickens 4 Jul 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 4 Jul 2024

    More than 20,000 Tesco employees are to share £30 million following the performance of its sharesave schemes.

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    • Dismissal
    • Employment tribunals

    Tribunal awards employee £20k for pregnancy discrimination

    by Zoe Wickens 20 May 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 20 May 2024

    Former office worker who won pregnancy discrimination and unfair dismissal claim against cheesemaker is awarded £19,700.

    • Constructive dismissal
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    • Retail

    Woman who worked unpaid for 20 years was unfairly dismissed

    by Zoe Wickens 1 May 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 1 May 2024

    Employment tribunal finds that woman who worked unpaid at her family’s shop for 20 years was constructively and unfairly dismissed.

    • Local authorities
    • Maternity
    • Latest News

    Firefighters receive pay rise and improved maternity benefits

    by Zoe Wickens 29 Apr 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 29 Apr 2024

    Firefighters and fire control employees receive maternity pay improvements and increases to basic and on-call pay.

    • Latest News
    • Retail
    • Living Wage

    Aldi raises staff pay again in 2024

    by Zoe Wickens 13 Mar 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 13 Mar 2024

    Supermarket chain Aldi is to increase hourly pay for store assistants and deputy store managers from 1 June.

    • Latest News
    • Retail
    • Pay & benefits

    Asda to raise pay for 120,000 hourly-paid store employees

    by Zoe Wickens 5 Mar 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 5 Mar 2024

    Asda has announced that its hourly-paid store employees will see an 8.4% increase in their pay effective 1 July.

    • Latest News
    • Department for Work and Pensions
    • Pensions

    Updated occupational pension regulations published

    by Zoe Wickens 30 Jan 2024
    by Zoe Wickens 30 Jan 2024

    DWP publishes final Occupational Pension Schemes (Funding and Investment Strategy and Amendment) Regulations 2024 and consultation response.

    • Latest News
    • Retail
    • Living Wage

    Lidl increases pay for 24,500 employees

    by Zoe Wickens 1 Sep 2023
    by Zoe Wickens 1 Sep 2023

    Lidl pay rise for 24,500 employees sees hourly wage increase from £11.00 to £11.40 outside London from September 2023.

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