Fuller’s has seen in the New Year with the launch of a new healthcare benefit as part of a package of improvements to its pay and benefits.
Team members from kitchen porters to deputy managers across Fuller’s managed pubs and hotels will benefit from the scheme, which provides support for routine medical treatment, a virtual GP service, help with optician costs, dental plans, access to alternative and complementary therapies, and contributions to prescription costs.
The new service is run in partnership with Medicash, a well-established healthcare cash plan. General managers and head chefs at Fuller’s are already covered under the pub company’s existing private medical insurance, but the new scheme ensures that all pub and hotel team members, who have been with the company for at least 12 months, have access to a healthcare benefit.
The benefit in kind tax has also been absorbed by Fuller’s, to ensure the new scheme is totally free for its team members. Dependent children are automatically covered and partners can be added at the team member’s own cost.
Other improvements made in recent months to the Fuller’s benefits package include an improved staff discount that rises with tenure of service, and the launch of a new platform called My Fuller’s, which brings all of the benefits on offer together in one place.
