Benefits

The Labour party has pledged to create 100,000 additional childcare places and 3,000 new nurseries if it wins the election.

Employers offering company childcare see greater in-office time from employees, according to a survey by Bright Horizons.

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Fifty-one per cent of employees would be tempted to take a job at a different organisation if it offered a four-day working week.

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.