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Nick Martindale

Towcester

Journalist at Freelance

Freelance #journalist, #business #copywriter and magazine #editor. Specialist areas #HR #employeebenefits #procurement #supplychain. Editor of SET's InTuition.

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  • 3 weeks ago | employeebenefits.co.uk | Nick Martindale

    Andrey_Popov/Shutterstock Need to know: Salary information has long been kept confidential for multiple reasons, including to avoid pay inflation at job-offer stage. A culture of pay transparency can assist employers’ tasks of attracting the best people to roles. Benchmarking salaries against similar roles and organisations can be a good starting point to implementing pay transparency. For many years, organisations have kept salary information a closely guarded secret.

  • 3 weeks ago | employeebenefits.co.uk | Nick Martindale

    When infrastructure consultancy Tyler Grange went through the process of becoming a B Corp in 2022, it was the starting point for a wider review of how the business operated. This led to a greater focus on pay and a commitment to full pay transparency, which came into effect in December 2024.

  • 2 months ago | employeebenefits.co.uk | Nick Martindale

    Credit: patpitchaya/Shutterstock Need to know: Around one in five people in work currently have caring responsibilities, and many reduce hours as a result. As well as creating short-term financial challenges, this means many people are unable to save for retirement. Employers can direct people towards state support, put in place arrangements to help them stay in work and work with staff to make up pension contributions.

  • 2 months ago | employeebenefits.co.uk | Nick Martindale

    With around 8% of its 5,000 workforce having caring responsibilities, TSB places a strong emphasis on helping to ensure those in this situation are able to cope. The bank has an established carers’ network, allowing those affected to support each other, and provides staff with 70 hours’ paid carers’ leave each year.

  • 2 months ago | smallbusiness.co.uk | Nick Martindale

    For many – although not all – small businesses, there will come a point where the concept of one person doing everything is no longer feasible and the founder will need to bring in additional support to help it to scale up and achieve its potential. At a basic level, this could include using specialists to look after elements such as accounting or IT, but in time it’s likely that more support will also be needed around the core focus of that business.

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Looking to speak to social care providers/care homes about the Penny Dash report into the Care Quality Commission. Please email [email protected] #care #socialcare #journorequest