Tag: Employee Benefits

Irrespective of how long one stays with an organisation, certain benefits such as a life insurance go beyond the employment term and stay with the person even after they’ve quit.

Offering loans of up to Rs. 1 lakh for up to 1 year, NIRA lets employees in need of finance apply for easy credit, relieving organisations from the not-so-comfortable business of lending

The corporate deals offered by numerous brands can be included in the employee benefits plan, making the staff feel proud of being part of the organisation.

The new cards for employees, dependents and retired employees will replace the medical booklet cards that have been in use for ages.

One may argue that a happy employee is an engaged employee, however, these are two entirely different facets and the former may or may not lead to the latter

Marcel, designed with people-first benefits and experiences in mind, will keep Publicis Groupe’s 80,000 employees connected to one.

The bank may issue shares in tranches to employees and will complete the transactions in this financial year. 

Both full-time and part-time employees of the Company, below the level of director, will be eligible for the bonus stocks.

From a shorter and better recruitment process, to hiring retired professionals and paid foreign trips for the non-gazetted staff, Indian Railways is setting new benchmarks as an employer.

The app helps evaluate the standard of savings and the impact of employee benefit programmes on retention, absenteeism, recruitment and performance too

Its Share & Care programme offers benefits covering welfare, parenthood, health and workplace quality of life to all its workers across the globe.

With only a 10 per cent increase in salaries in sight for the next year, the way to keep employees contented will be through rewards and recognition.

The share buyback plan could be the largest such programme till date in the Indian start-up sector.

While PSUs offer comparatively lower salary than private players, they offer job security, work-life balance and hoards of other benefits. Is that why employees stay put with a PSU or is it the comfort that makes them linger on? HRKatha reviews the war of talent between PSUs and private companies.

The Ordinance ensures safety and cleanliness in addition to other facilities for lactating women.

Basecamp provides its employees a $5,000 annual vacation stipend along with shortened four-day, 32-hour weeks during summer.

The partnership will help Sodexo bring cutting-edge technology solutions developed by Zeta to offer a range of integrated employee benefits to its corporate clients.

With the new bill, backed solely by the Republicans, workers will have to forego the extra bucks they could have earned working overtime

A Scottish brewer firm, Brew-dog, has literally introduced a week-long paid leave for its staff to be able to bond with their new dogs well.

The programme aims to bring talented women in 26 countries back into the workplace after a career break

In a move that will make things convenient for retired professionals, the retirement fund body, the Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO), has allowed full and final withdrawal of funds by the subscribers from their pension account, without providing their Aadhaar number.

At par with the government employees, even private-sector employees will now be able to withdraw up to Rs 20 lakh in tax-free gratuity.

Employee benefits can’t always go by the rule book. It has to have a wider appeal like an ad-campaign.

A study reveals that in the past year, 67 per cent of Indian business travellers have extended their business trips, to a different city or country, beating the global average of only 49 per cent.

The Bank intends to pay about £340m in bonuses to employees in 2017, even as it prepares to announce one of its biggest annual losses in 2016.

Employees asked to travel by railways instead of airways until there is an emergency.

A modern and well equipped crèche cum day care facility, Muskaan, is one of the initiatives under the company’s progressive HR policy.

Designing a perk is an exercise. In the minds of employees, perks serve as a significant differentiator between companies.

The solution, which comes in a card format, is very similar to the Sodexo coupons.

Bengaluru-based Ozone Group has launched a programme urging its employee to quit smoking and lose weight and in lieu of the same, it has offered hefty financial rewards.

All employees who were on the company’s payroll on July 31, and are still on it, will be part of this reward programme, which will also include FTEs and contract workers.

A report by Towers Watson indicates that Indian companies are seeing a major gap between the amount they spend on employee benefits and the value they get in return.