Benefits

There's a perception gap between the employee experience HR thinks it delivers and what staff think, a survey has found.

Bank of Ireland HR director Eimear Harty details the inclusive strategy behind last year's double Personnel Today Awards win.

WRC describes decision by University College Cork to dismiss Wim Naudé as ‘astonishing’, adding its HR director had no authority to do so.

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

A National Audit Office report has revealed that testing the free childcare hours rollout could have avoided some risks.

More than half of employees would like their company to invest in more sustainable benefits such as electric vehicles and sustainable pensions, a survey has revealed.

About 40,000 extra staff are needed if the government is to fulfil its pledge to offer 30 free hours of childcare to all pre-school children by September next year.

A four-day work week could risk widening existing inequalities between workers, a report commissioned for the Welsh Government has warned. 

Parents plan to increase their working hours as they become eligible for free childcare hours, but many struggle to access places.

Two in five employees in the UK would take a pay cut if they were offered better benefits, according to a survey from MetLife UK.

Only one in three councils in England have enough childcare places for full-time workers, a charity's survey finds.

Despite a return to profit, for the second year running the John Lewis Partnership will not pay its staff a bonus.

Local government minister Simon Hoare said he thought it was ‘hugely disappointing and arrogant‘ that a council was continuing its four-day week trial.

Google has announced a range of enhanced family-friendly and fertility benefits for its UK workforce.

The organisers of a successful four-day week trial are hoping employers will try '4ugust' for themselves this summer.