Long-service awards

New and updated

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Basic pay and benefits

  Updated to reflect the Government's 22 November 2023 announcement on fuel benefit charges.

• Date:

  11 July 2023

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2023: Childcare benefits, long-service awards and other benefits and allowances

  We look at some of the less common benefits and allowances offered by organisations, including perks such as long-service awards, staff discount schemes and paid volunteering days.

• Date:

  7 July 2022

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2022: Childcare benefits, long-service awards and other benefits and allowances

  Most employees will be offered a package of different benefits and allowances to augment their salary. We look at some of the less common offerings away from pensions, health and travel perks.

• 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.

• 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:

  Policies and procedures

  Long-service awards policy

  A model policy to set out employees' entitlement to long-service awards.

• Type:

  Tasks

  Introduce, manage and review a long-service award scheme

• Type:

  FAQs

  Are long-service awards incompatible with the Equality Act 2010?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Where it is a company's policy to give a small gift to employees who have completed periods of service of multiples of 10 years could this be discriminatory under the Equality Act 2010?