Employee advice helplines, mental health support, flexible working arrangements, volunteering schemes, peer mentoring, and other initiatives to promote employee wellbeing are becoming more common in council workplaces.
For a start, companies must give all their employees clear advice on the steps to be followed when they suspect that bribes are being offered or demanded.
Only 22percentt of companies provide their employees with advice on how to invest their 401(k) savings plans, according to a survey by the Profit Sharing/401(k) Council of America.
To help newcomers adjust quickly, the relocation center's nine employees give advice on transportation, schools and cultural offerings, and help them recognize the nuances of various communities.
Such an approach will not make it possible to offer employees individual advice.And low-paid employees may not be the only people who feel that pensions are not for them.
Abbey National now gives its employees regular advice on how to blow the whistle including the suggestion that they contact Public Concern at Work, a charity manned by lawyers, should they not get satisfaction internally.
She, in turn, is approached regularly by former Lotus employees seeking advice on all kinds of issues -- from starting their own consulting businesses to setting up their own Web sites, she said.
During the College Bound evenings, which stores hold once a year, employees offer advice on everything from how to set up shelves in a dorm room to selecting the right under-bed storage drawers.
What he provides the Americans (with their 3,000 UK employees) is advice and explanation of government policy, what the Queen's speech or employment law means to an overseas firm, how to tackle union relations properly, even the impact of the Bali climate summit.
Federal law effectively bars the big mutual fund and insurance companies that administer those 401(k) accounts from giving employees investment advice themselves.
