The Pensions Policy Institute and U.K. consumer advocacy group Which? are teaming up to recommend to the U.K. government that working mothers should receive a top-up to their pensions in an effort to close the pension gender gap. The groups’ analysis found a woman in the U.K. who took time off for childcare responsibilities would put an average […]
Forty-three million Americans are currently acting as an unpaid caregiver for a family member, according to a report by the U.S.-based business research organization LIMRA. It also suggested half of these unpaid caregivers work full time outside the home, with the demands of taking care of a loved one impacting their career. Indeed, it found […]
American companies are facing a caregiving crisis they refuse to acknowledge, according to a report by the Managing the Future of Work project at Harvard Business School. According to the report, rising health-care and professional caregiving costs, along with changing demographics over the past few decades, have “put great pressure on American employees as they try […]
In the first year since the federal government made changes to employment insurance benefits aimed at helping caregivers and new parents, it has received more than 8,300 caregiving benefits claims. The government expects that number to grow, estimating about 22,000 claims for caregiving benefits by fall 2019. It also found that, as of September 2018, more […]
Starbucks Corp. is aiming to help working parents and caregivers with a new benefit connecting employees with an online care network and 10 days of subsidized backup care. The online service, called Care@Work, moves through Care.com, which connects families directly with caregivers. “This is giving our partners resources for things that happen in regular life,” said Ron […]
While some workplaces may find it difficult to accommodate flexibility for employees with caregiving responsibilities, employers should be creative, according to one human resources consultant. “To me, I feel like it’s not that difficult to do,” Helen Patterson, a consultant at Life Works Well, told an audience at the Human Resources Professionals Association conference in Toronto on Friday. “Flexibility is not […]
As Hawaii introduces new legislation to provide working caregivers with a daily stipend of US$70 to offset the costs of elder care, how does it measure up against Canada’s new employment insurance caregiver benefit? The Kapuna Caregivers Assistance Act, which took effect in December, will provide the stipend to Hawaiian employees working more than 30 hours a […]
Ontario is planning to allow workers to take five days of paid leave as part of its package of labour law changes. While the government had originally planned to allow for an unpaid leave of absence of up to 17 weeks when an employee or a child has experienced or is facing the threat of domestic or […]
Schneider Electric is rolling out a new family leave policy, aiming to cover all global employees by January 2019. The global family leave policy will be deployed gradually, with employees in more than 40 countries, including China, India, Mexico and the United States, covered by January 2018, and 100 per cent of the energy management and automation […]
Changes are coming for employment insurance and leave allocations for some Canadian employees later this fall. The leave changes, which received royal assent in June, affect the part of the Canada Labour Code that includes employees in the banking, telecommunications and transportation industries, as well as Crown corporations and some workers on First Nations reserves. The changes to employment insurance […]