Benefits

Updated furlough guidance confirms scheme can be used where employees can't work because they are caring for children while schools are closed.

Zurich is offering two weeks’ fully-paid emergency ‘lockdown leave’ to parents and carers affected by school closures.
The Swiss insurance...

The government has defended its decision to keep nursery schools open during the national lockdown in England amid union concern...

The TUC says employers should offer furlough to parents affected by school closures and who lack childcare as a result.

Working a four-day week on full pay is viable for most UK companies, a study of thousands of businesses has sought to demonstrate.

Spain: a four-day week is being considered as a measure that could boost jobs, productivity and help the country recover from the economic damage of the pandemic.

Unilever is to begin a year-long trial of a four-day week at its offices in New Zealand with the aim...

The High Court has ruled that the trustees of defined benefit pension schemes will have to revisit any pension transfers made over the past 30 years.

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Two weeks’ statutory paid bereavement leave should be introduced for all UK employees who lose a close relative or partner,...

Directors from First Group and Synamedia are to join the panel for our upcoming webinar, “How does HR navigate new workplace norms?”

Approximately 2.6 million parents feel they have been treated less fairly at work because of their childcare responsibilities since the...

Employee benefits have already proven their worth during the Covid-19 pandemic, but Steve Herbert believes they’ll become more important to...

Clyde Marwick, group HR director at food organisation Baxters, will discuss the perks of offering employees non-cash benefits at Employee...

Boris Johnson has confirmed that people should work from home if they can in a statement to the House of...