JUST GROUP PLC Annual Report and Accounts 2020
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Colleagues and culture continued
As part of our total reward offering, we have a number of core funded benefits available to all employees. These are a group personal pension, group income protection, employee assistance programme, life assurance, single level private medical insurance, health cash plan, Headspace App, childcare vouchers (for those who joined the scheme prior to 4 October 2018) and holiday buy/sell. We also have a range of flexible benefits that employees can select at their own cost. These are critical illness cover, partner life assurance, cycle to work scheme, dental insurance, travel insurance, leisure/dining card, health screening, MyGymDiscounts and MyActiveDiscounts. Whilst focusing on the wellbeing of our own colleagues, early on in the pandemic we recognised our duty to the communities in which we operate, as outlined in our charity and community policy. The Company pledged support to the COVID-19 Support Fund, teaming up with a number of other businesses from the UK insurance and long-term savings industry to help support some of the people hardest hit by the COVID-19 crisis. The key aimwas to provide immediate relief to charities that had been affected as well as a longer-term programme of support for people, communities and issues where there is the greatest need. We also continued to raise funds for our corporate charity Re-engage, who had to completely change the way they supported elderly guests during this period of enforced separation. Activities included our Just World Office Tour which has seen colleagues virtually covering the distance from our Belfast office to our Cape Town office, via London, Reigate and Tunbridge Wells as many times as possible, totalling a massive 58,975 miles. We also rounded off the year by giving all colleagues an Advent for Change calendar. With so many charities suffering from a lack of fundraising due to COVID-19, each door of the advent calendar highlighted a different great cause – including our own corporate charity Re-engage – and represented a 50 pence donation that the Company made to each charity on behalf of every colleague. Company and employee fundraising and donations raised a six figure sum for our corporate charity partner Re-engage, the COVID-19 Support Fund and a range of charities including Redhill Corps of Drum Fundraising, Papyrus, Loveworks, Save our Spaniels, MersthamMix, Wiltshire Air Ambulance Charitable Trust, St. Nicolas PTA, YMCA East Surrey, Versus Arthritis, Little Princess Trust, Alzheimer’s Society, St. John Ambulance, The British Red Cross Society, 40tude Curing Colon Cancer, Macmillan Cancer Support, Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal, MND Scotland, Lothian Health Board Endowment Fund and Advent of Change. LINE MANAGER DEVELOPMENT AND SUPPORT We recognise the critical role that line managers play in ensuring that colleagues across Just are healthy, engaged and productive. This was especially true over the past 12 months as people and teams adjusted to new ways of working and the personal pressures and challenges presented by COVID-19. Some examples of the ways in which we have supported and developed our people managers over the last year include: • Quickly moving our flagship management development programme – Just Engage – to a virtual context, rolling out five cohorts over the year with participation from 40 managers. • Over 30 people managers from across the business have taken part in the level 5 leadership and management diploma delivered in partnership with an external learning consultancy.
THE COMPANY’S RESPONSE TO THIS DIFFICULT SITUATION HAS BEEN IMPRESSIVE. PLEASE CONTINUE TO KEEP US WELL INFORMED COLLEAGUE COMMENT FROM PULSE SURVEY
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