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The Value of Employee Incentive Programs for Manufacturing

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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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How To Engage Manufacturing Workers In Wellness Programs

Wellable

In the manufacturing sector, where shift work, physically demanding tasks, and limited healthy lifestyle options are common, wellness programs can be transformative in improving employee well-being.

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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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Insights From a Financial Education and Research Conference

Money Talk

having to constantly replace poor quality clothes), exploitation of low-wage workers to produce clothes, and an increase in discarded clothing sent to landfills, resulting in land and water degradation. Downsides of fast fashion include wasted resources (i.e., Examples: 9.25 of chips versus 9.75oz.

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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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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. Browns Manufacturing made a profit after tax of £4.2 million in the year ending 31 December 2022.

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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.