Childcare benefits

New and updated

• Type:

  Employment law manual

  Basic pay and benefits

  Updated to include revised advisory fuel rates, effective from 1 December 2021.

• Date:

  22 July 2021

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2021: Childcare benefits, long-service awards and other benefits and allowances

  We look at some of the less common employee benefits and allowances on offer away from the more well-known health and wellbeing, travel and subsistence and pension perks.

• Type:

  How to

  How to deal with maternity pay, salary sacrifice and childcare vouchers

  Updated to reflect the increase to the statutory maternity pay rate from 4 April 2021.

• Date:

  30 July 2020

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2020: Childcare benefits, long-service awards and other benefits and allowances

  With organisations often offering upwards of 20 different benefits and allowances to their staff, we look at those beyond health-related benefits, company cars and pensions, to see what else is on offer.

• Date:

  24 June 2019

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2019: Childcare benefits, long-service awards and other benefits and allowances

  Away from health-related benefits, company cars and pensions, there are a host of other benefits available to employers to boost the package they offer to employees. We investigate some of the other benefits available.

• Type:

  How to

  How to ensure compliance with the law on childcare vouchers

  Updated to include information on the closure of childcare voucher schemes to new entrants.

• Type:

  FAQs

  Can employers still operate a childcare voucher scheme following the introduction of Tax-free Childcare?

• Type:

  FAQs

  What is the Tax-free Childcare scheme?

• Type:

  FAQs

  What is the role of employers in the Tax-free Childcare scheme?

• Date:

  25 April 2016

  Type:

  Law reports

  Maternity discrimination: No discrimination where employer offering childcare vouchers as part of salary-sacrifice scheme did not offer vouchers during maternity leave

  In Peninsula Business Services Ltd v Donaldson EAT/0249/15, the EAT held that childcare vouchers under a salary-sacrifice scheme constitute "remuneration", with the result that there is no legal obligation to continue their provision during maternity leave.