Williams Lea Company Benefits (UK permanent & fixed term employees)
Life Assurance
All Williams Lea UK, employees are automatically covered for Life Assurance, currently at four times basic salary, from the day they join the Company. Nominated beneficiaries can be recorded by completing the life assurance nomination form, which is originally sent to you with your contract of employment. If you would like to change your nominees at any time, please complete a life assurance nomination form and send it to HRSupportEMEA@wlt.com. Please note, Life Assurance only applies up to the age of 75 years.
Holidays
Entitlement for UK employees is 25 working days per annum, with no further increase. The holiday year runs from 1 January to 31 December
Pension
When you join the Company, you will receive a pension pack along with your contract providing you with all necessary information regarding the auto-enrolment pension scheme and enrolment procedures. The scheme operates on a contributory basis and % contributions are in line with pension auto-enrolment legislation.
Your Benefits
‘Your Benefits’ is our flexible benefits plan. You will be given access to the online Darwin portal where you will be able to view your core benefits that the Company provides, and you can select and pay for additional benefits that are important to you, taking advantage of the discounts available and in some cases, tax and NI savings. The benefits available include:
- Dental Insurance
- Health Assessments
- Give as You Earn
- Will Writing
- Cycle to Work
- Childcare Vouchers
- Travel Insurance
- Gym Membership
- Retail Vouchers
- Life Assurance
- Personal Accident Cover
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Private Medical Insurance (as mentioned above, if you have this as part of your contract you do still need to select it on the portal in order to be covered)
You will receive an email to your work email address after your first month with your login details to the portal.
Sick Pay
As outlined in your contract of employment.
Corporate Eye Care
The Company provides a corporate eye care benefit to all UK employees who work with visual display units (VDUs). VDU users are defined as employees who habitually use display screen equipment as a significant part of their normal work.
This benefit includes a full eye and eyesight test by an optometrist up to £25 and £50 towards corrective appliances where they are required solely for VDU use.
Simply go along to any opticians, have your eye test and purchase your glasses or contact lenses, keep the receipt and process via the expenses system.
Interest-free Season Ticket Loan
All permanent and fixed term contract Williams Lea UK employees can apply for an interest free season ticket loan once they have completed their probationary period, up to a maximum of £10,000.00. Full details are available on the season ticket loan application form available on the EMEA HR page, accessed through Front Door.
Referral Scheme
We are keen to encourage all employees to recommend potential future employees to Williams Lea and in recognition of this, we operate a Referral Scheme. To find out more about the current scheme and how you could benefit please look for the Talent Acquisition section on the EMEA HR page, accessed through Front Door.
Mobile Phones
Williams Lea operate a BYOD (bring your own device) policy. If your role requires use of a mobile phone to perform your daily tasks, your manager will approve your entitlement to a £20 monthly allowance, which will be made via payroll and subject to Tax and National Insurance deductions. This allowance can be used to source a new separate SIM to your personal phone, or you can opt to use your personal phone number for work purposes. You will need to ensure this is in place by your start date. The WLT Mobile Device policy can be found on the Information Security SharePoint page, accessed through Front Door.
For further information concerning Company benefits please visit the Benefits page on the EMEA HR page using Front Door, or contact wlt@mercermarshbenefits.com or call 01454 525307.
