Long-service awards

New and updated

• Type:

  Employment law guide

  Basic pay and benefits

  Updated with various changes, including the increase in the rate of employer national insurance contributions and changes to the van benefit and car and van fuel charge.

• Date:

  11 July 2023

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  HR & Compliance Centre 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.

• 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?

• Type:

  FAQs

  Is it permissible to award greater holiday entitlement to employees who have, for example, 10 years' service?