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The Value of Employee Incentive Programs for Manufacturing

Achievers

These days, a good manufacturing industry employee is like struck gold. Even though the manufacturing sector pays an average hourly wage of $29.34 , good workers are hard to find. Eighty percent of manufacturers say they’ve had trouble finding qualified workers. What’s a manufacturer to do?

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Health Food Manufacturers’ Association becomes living wage employer

Employee Benefits

The Health Food Manufacturers’ Association (HFMA), which represents manufacturers and suppliers of natural health products, has become accredited as a living wage employer. This is higher than the current government minimum wage for workers over the age of 21, which is £11.44.

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Flexible working and its benefits are enjoyed most by highest paid workers

Workplace Insight

Low paid workers have the least flexible working, and the gap between the number of flexible workers on the lowest and highest salaries has increased in the last year, according to figures from the Flex for Life 2023 report from advocacy group Flexibility Works. Non-frontline roles are often office-based.

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Browns Manufacturing staff accept 13.2% pay rise

Employee Benefits

Around 350 workers employed by food manufacturer Browns Manufacturing have accepted a 13.2% The production, distribution and maintenance workers based in Dumfriesshire in Scotland were represented by trade union Unite. After rejecting a pay offer from the employer of £10.90 million, with £1.5 million in 2021.

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58% of manufacturers spend at least £10,000 on staff wellbeing

Employee Benefits

More than half (58%) of UK manufacturers spend between £10,000 and £50,000 on staff wellbeing initiatives, up from a third two years ago, according to research by manufacturers’ organisation Make UK. Overall, 27% of workers have taken ownership of their own wellbeing by making use of the incentives on offer.

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Employers must act to offer more choices to people

Workplace Insight

The study identifies six distinct worker ‘segments’* in the UK workforce and quantifies what attracts and retains them in jobs, and provides advice to businesses on how to build a strong workforce. Employers need to resist the temptation to move back to pre-pandemic ways of working.

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Stressed, Burned Out Workers May Compromise Safety

InterWest Insurance Services

When workers are stressed or required to work quickly, they are more prone to making mistakes that can injure themselves or co-workers. Fed-OSHA has also noted a correlation between worker stress and industrial injuries. This includes construction, manufacturing, warehousing, health care and transportation.