Corporate Responsibility and Our People
Trade Union Representation & National Living Wage To support our workforce we recognise the trade union, Community. Community has a network of representatives across all of our depots. From 1 April 2016, we adopted the new National Living Wage. Although the National Living Wage applies to individuals over 25, through working with Community, we agreed to apply this rate to all employees, regardless of age. With effect from April 2017 we will pay all employees above the announced National Living Wage. Additional Benefits To further support employee engagement and support a work-life balance, we have partnered with You at Work/Plus You to provide employees with preferential shopping and membership discounts across a wide range of goods and services across the UK. Employees are able to access these discounts and special offers from home or at work via the Plus You website.
Work-Life Balance We offer an Employee Assistance Programme, partnering with Unum LifeWorks, to support our employees with their emotional wellbeing and work-life balance. This is a free of charge service to support our employees with a wealth of resources covering life, health, family, work, money and life changes. Flexible Working We recognise the need for all employees to request to work flexibly and we comply with all legislation in regards to the Children and Families Act 2014. We have policies and procedures in place to request and support flexible working which are communicated to all employees and people managers; all policies are available to all staff via our company intranet. Each request is reviewed and considered on a case by case basis and will be accommodated, where possible, within business requirements. Pensions In November 2013, we auto-enrolled all employees on our pension scheme, taking into consideration age and income criteria. In addition, we rolled out a second auto-enrol programme in 2016 in order to fulfil our legal obligation and a further enrolment is due in 2019.
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Strategic Report | Whistl Annual Report 2016
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