#employee-benefits

#employee-benefits

Three quarters (75%) of legal employees want support with energy bills or discount vouchers for food shopping as part of their workplace benefits packages.

Stay longer, get promoted, earn more. In today's landscape, it doesn't always work that way. Pay progression isn't neatly tied to tenure, and loyalty alone no longer guarantees growth.

Health care costs for workers are already up, with the average costs of those benefits expected to grow by 5.8% this year, which is an increase from 4.5% last year.

Workers at the CN Tower have ratified a new three-year collective agreement, ending a nearly two-week-long lockout. The agreement includes wage increases and enhanced benefits.

"If you live 30 minutes away from the office, that's an hour a day that you could be working," says Jimenez, who also lives within a short walk to the office.

Germany's work-life balance is bolstered by generous statutory leave days. Full-time workers are entitled to a minimum of 20 paid vacation days annually, with many receiving 25 or 30.

Electric car salary sacrifice schemes provide financial savings for employees through lower taxes, helping to make electric vehicles more affordable compared to traditional petrol or diesel cars.

Summer Fridays were once seen as a perk that allowed employees some flexibility during the summer months... This has just lost a lot of relevance today. And there's a lot more intentionality around what employees are doing when they're actually in the workplace, primarily Tuesdays through Thursdays.

Effective management often meant being directive, authoritative and results-focused in years past. But today, workers expect greater empathy, transparency and shared decision-making.

I can confirm that we received a total of 325 applications for the voluntary exit programme. This VEP comprises Voluntary Severance (VS) and Voluntary Early Retirement (VER) schemes available to employees with at least two years' service.

This exciting partnership ensures that employers can provide their people with financial protection solutions that comprehensively cover the areas that are important to them.

Employers must consider the whole package as increasingly employees are looking for more than just a salary in order to provide them with job satisfaction.

Labour Party spokesperson Ciarán Ahern emphasized that this announcement reflects a significant breakthrough for over 2,600 CIE pensioners who have faced stagnant benefits for 17 years.

Across our data, we have seen how small businesses manage with limited resources, suggesting that they often have to make difficult tradeoffs. Increasing health care costs can have that effect - we saw that the firms with the largest health insurance burden increases were the most likely to drop coverage.