Georgia Shaw, Culture and Inclusion Coordinator at NHS Property Services (NHSPS), discusses the property services provider’s approach to supporting colleagues’ mental health, and its new ‘Mental Health Awareness’ E-learning course. On 10th October, NHSPS celebrated World Mental Health Day. We’re mindful, however, that efforts to improve and protect our mental health should be ongoing. Due…
Cost of Living Crisis
Compass Group UK & Ireland has been awarded the Living Wage Champion Award in the ‘Recognised Service Provider’ category of the Living Wage Foundation’s annual awards. The Living Wage, set by the foundation, includes both a UK rate and a London rate. It differs from the UK’s National Living Wage as it takes account of…
Insurance companies will be able to identify vulnerable households more easily under a landmark data-sharing partnership agreed just weeks before new consumer protection standards come into force in the United Kingdom. The Financial Conduct Authority’s new Consumer Duty regulations will demand higher standards of protection across financial services from the end of July. The partnership between…
Workers in Amazon’s Mansfield and Rugeley fulfilment centres will take part in a binding vote on strike action following the announcement from GMB of two more strike ballots. Union members will now vote on full and binding industrial action ballot at Amazon’s Mansfield and Rugeley fulfilment centres. More than 150 workers at the two sites…
A food company worth £4 billion that makes own brand curries for supermarkets including Waitrose, Tesco and Sainsbury’s is threatening 1,000 workers with fire and rehire. Pilgrim’s Food Masters which also supplies Aldi and Morrisons, has told workers at its site in Southall (formerly Noon) they will be sacked and reemployed on worse terms and…
Kseniya Savelyeva, Indices Manager at the Building Cost Information Service (BCIS), comments on the organisation’s most recent quarterly survey of housebuilders in the United Kingdom. Annual housebuilding cost inflation slowed slightly in the fourth quarter of 2022 to 12.8% but costs were still up 1.7% on the previous quarter. The annual rate of increase, as…
The countryside is battling a ‘hidden homelessness’ crisis driven by soaring housing costs and a gaping shortfall in central UK government funding for local authorities, according to a report by academics at the University of Kent and the University of Southampton. The true scale of the crisis is likely to be far higher than official…
Electricity network provider Northern Powergrid takes a look at the cost of rapid electric vehicle charging following recent suggesting prices in the United Kingdom soared by 21 per cent between September 2021 and May 2022. There’s no doubt that electric vehicles can be beneficial for the environment. In fact, one electric car can save up…
New research from Sony Professional Displays & Solutions reveals UK and German retailers are preparing proactively for the critical Christmas and New Year trading period as their counterparts in France adopt a more laissez-faire approach. Despite retailers entering the first un-disrupted Christmas since 2019, close to half (43%) of those in the Europe are concerned…
To mark Living Wage Week in the United Kingdom, the British Cleaning Council (BCC) is renewing calls for cleaning and hygiene sector businesses to pay the real Living Wage – a voluntary salary scale that is higher than the government’s ‘National Living Wage’. Supporting the real Living Wage means committing to paying employees a wage…
Compass Scotland has launched a new surplus food partnership with food charity, FareShare. This partnership will encourage Compass Scotland sites to work with FareShare to donate surplus food so that meals can be distributed to those who need it most. The announcement comes as more individuals and families struggle to cope with the rising cost…
Half of Asda workers who participated in a GMB survey are worried they won’t be able to afford Christmas dinner this year due to low wages as the union calls on Britain’s third-biggest supermarket to implement an immediate pay rise. According to GMB, the poll of more than 3,200 Asda workers also reveals: Three quarters…
ASDA is once again the worst-paying of the UK’s ‘Big Four’ supermarkets after Tesco, Sainsbury’s and Aldi increased wages to help workers cope with the cost of living crisis says the GMB Union as it calls on bosses to ‘wake up’. According to the union, basic pay for Asda retail workers remains at £10.10 per…
UK supplier of lone worker safeguarding solutions Reliance Protect has teamed up with two longstanding customers to create social value funds dedicated to supporting people experiencing hardship during the cost of living crisis. The social value funds provide an invaluable safety net for some of the most disadvantaged members of society, in addition to funding…
Atalian Servest has begun a phased rollout of a new financial wellbeing solution for its workforce after partnering with instant access-to-pay provider Wagestream to help address the impact of the ongoing cost-of-living crisis on employees. The facilities management services provider says it is deeply committed to supporting the health, safety and wellbeing of its people,…
UK charity The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI) has launched a ‘return to school’ grant to help cover the cost of school uniforms, P.E. kit and other equipment as a response to what it describes as “unacceptable financial choices” facing farming families in the run up to the new school year. Citing research by consumer…