Pay and benefits
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Contracts
Work-life balance
Job design
Relationships at work
Employee voice
Health and wellbeing
Prior to the COVID-19 crisis, workers were already saying that, when working, they always or frequently felt:
Exhausted (22%)
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Under excessive pressure (21%)
Miserable (11%)
A third of respondents reported that their workload in a standard week was too high, with a quarter confirming that they find relaxing outside of work difficult due to the pressures of their job. Even more worryingly, 69% of individuals who reported experiencing anxiety in the last year cited work as a contributing factor. 58% of those who suffered depression stated the same.
A snapshot survey of 1,001 workers demonstrated how the COVID-19 crisis is exacerbating several of the issues previously identified, with the following key findings:
• 22 per cent said it was probable that they would lose their job in the next year • 43 per cent of those with a mental health condition say that the outbreak of coronavirus has contributed to, or worsened, their condition • 29 per cent of those with anxiety say the pandemic has contributed to, or worsened, their condition
In response to the survey’s findings, the CIPD has offered a list of recommendations for employers to promote healthy working practices. The list includes:
• Assessing workloads, and ensuring that staff are not under excess pressure • Ensuring that managers are sufficiently trained in conducting supportive and sensitive discussions on wellbeing. They also need to understand how important regular contact is for staff who are working remotely • Highlighting benefits such as counselling helplines, that may already be available to employees • Allowing workers to have more control over how, when and where they work
The report can be accessed and read in its entirety here.
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The treatment of Direct Earnings Attachments during the coronavirus crisis 17 June 2020
On 3 April 2020, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) confirmed that it would be writing to employers to instruct them to temporarily suspend Direct Earnings Attachment (DEA) deductions from employees’ pay in April, May and June 2020, due to the outbreak of coronavirus.
The guidance states that employers will be notified if this suspension is to be extended.
The CIPP has contacted the DWP via its Debt Management contact centre to enquire if the suspension of DEAs will continue beyond June 2020. The team advised that, whilst not officially confirmed, the intention is for DEA deductions to resume from July 2020, and that letters would be circulated in due course to communicate this.
We await further confirmation of how DEAs will be treated after June 2020, and will update members through News as we hear further information.
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The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals
Payroll: need to know
cipp.org.uk
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