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The Eden Hotel Collection has announced a number of new employee benefits including new payments to help with rising costs of childcare in the UK.
The new ‘Return to Work Support Scheme’ will give staff an additional £200 per month for the first six months after returning from maternity leave.
Eden Hotel Collection is also increasing pay for jury service to full-pay as well as support for eye care which will increase from £25 to £50 for an eye test and £50 to £125 for eyewear.
Furthermore, the company will offer a paid day of organised volunteer work to support The Eden Hotel Collection’s sustainability goals.
Fertility support has increased to provide paid time off for appointments, while
contributions towards paid maternity leave includes an additional six weeks’ pay at 50% salary on top of the existing first six weeks at 90% and remainder at statutory pay.
Paid paternity leave increases from statutory pay for two weeks to 90% for two weeks and an additional 50% for a third week.
The benefits have been rolled out at all hotels within The Eden Hotel Collection, which
employs 350 staff across the UK.
Lisa Redding, group people director, said: “We simply couldn’t create memorable
experiences for our guests without our dedicated teams, which is why it’s important that we
look after our staff and their loved ones.“Our benefits have all been carefully handpicked and developed over time, so we’re pleased to be evolving these once again in line with our ‘money, mind, body and heart’ wellbeing ethos.
“As a private, family-owned business, we are proud to enhance a number of our benefits
around family provisions, offering more than statutory pay for maternity, paternity and
adoption leave, in addition to progressing our plans to launch a new fertility support policy
for families going through fertility treatment later this year.”
Mark Chambers, group managing director, added: “We have an incredible workforce who
are integral to making our hotels the warm and welcoming places they are. These latest improvements are all about making sure we are supporting them – especially in today’s tough economic climate – in as many ways as possible, on things that matter to them and their families the most.”
