{"id":18499,"date":"2020-05-27T15:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/manulife-giving-35000-staff-day-off-as-thank-you-146373"},"modified":"2020-05-27T15:00:22","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T19:00:22","slug":"manulife-giving-35000-staff-day-off-as-thank-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2020\/05\/27\/manulife-giving-35000-staff-day-off-as-thank-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Manulife giving 35,000 staff day off as thank you"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignleft clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wp-caption feature-image alignleft\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"316\" height=\"190\" src=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Manulife-Shutterstock.jpg\" class=\"attachment-feature size-feature wp-post-image\" alt title=\"Manulife giving 35,000 staff day off as thank you\"> <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\"> <span>Staff <\/span>&nbsp;|&nbsp;May 27, 2020 <\/p>\n<p>Manulife Financial and its subsidiary John Hancock are giving their more than 35,000 employees a day off on Friday to say thank you for all the hard word they\u2019ve done.<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;companies will also be providing five additional personal days next year to each employee to support their well-being by encouraging regular time off and will provide the opportunity for employees to take vacations, which they may not have been able to do in the current environment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/ceridian-increases-engagement-productivity-with-flexible-time-off-policies-120149\">Ceridian raises engagement, productivity with flex time-off policies<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so proud and grateful for the commitment our people have shown&nbsp;\u2014 it\u2019s taken energy and incredible stamina,\u201d said Roy Gori, Manulife\u2019s chief executive officer, in a press release. \u201cWhile many communities begin the process of reopening, it\u2019s safe to assume that things won\u2019t be returning to what we thought was \u2018normal\u2019 for some time. So we will all need to continue to take care of ourselves and practice healthy habits, which include unplugging and taking time to unwind. We\u2019ll be getting that done together, as a global team, on&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-chron\">Friday, June 19<\/span>&nbsp;this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The insurers have also&nbsp;taken a range of actions to support the well-being of their employees and their families in response to the challenges they face due to the coronavirus pandemic. These&nbsp;include flexible working arrangements, supplemental paid time off and additional virtual mental-health resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/benefits\/health-benefits\/supporting-employees-workplace-health-financial-wellness-during-coronavirus-144279\">Supporting employees\u2019 workplace health, financial wellness during coronavirus<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benefitscanada.com\/news\/manulife-giving-35000-staff-day-off-as-thank-you-146373\">Read the full article at BenefitsCanada.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff &nbsp;|&nbsp;May 27, 2020 Manulife Financial and its subsidiary John Hancock are giving their more than 35,000 employees a day off on Friday to say thank you for all the hard word they\u2019ve done.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18499"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}