Standard Life
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| Parent organizations | Manulife |
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| Headquarters | Montreal |
| Canada | |
| Number of employees | 2,000 |
| Founded | 1833 |
| Defunct | 2016 |
| Subsidiaries | The Standard Life Assurance Company of Canada, Bermuda Branch |
| Date of Reg. | |
| Date of Upd. | |
| ID | 2323279 |
About Standard Life
The Standard Life Assurance Company of Canada was an investment, retirement and financial protection company and is part of Manulife Financial Standard Life has been in the Canadian marketplace since 1833 and currently employs over 2,000 people across Canada.
New tax year: Threshold risk for millions as benefits rise
... Neil Hugh, from savings and retirement group Standard Life, said: " It is more important than ever that people know what sort of support is available to them...
New Year Honours 2023: Scotland footballers named on list
... Norman Keith Skeoch, former chief executive of Standard Life Aberdeen, receives a knighthood for services to the financial sector...
Phoenix Group drops 'energetic' from job ads to woo older applicants
... Phoenix Group, which owns Standard Life, said this was not because people s enthusiasm waned with age...
'Little sign of change' for number of women in top roles
... Companies with more than 40% female board membership include Standard Life Aberdeen, Schroders and Royal Bank of Scotland, while those with 25% or fewer women on the board include National Grid and Rio Tinto...
Millennial men demand better parental leave
... That follows two FTSE 100 companies - Standard Life Aberdeen and Vodafone - which last week announced steps to try to equalise the experience of men and women in the workplace when babies are born...
Phoenix Group drops 'energetic' from job ads to woo older applicants
One of the UK's largest insurance groups is to replace The Words " energetic" and " enthusiastic" in its job adverts, saying they put off older applicants.
Phoenix Group , which owns Standard Life , said This Was not because people's enthusiasm waned with age.
Instead, older workers often ruled themselves out of applying if they felt unwanted, it said.
It Comes as firms scramble for workers with.
Phoenix said it wanted to take an inclusive approach in its Recruitment , - But it denied that it was banning certain words from job adverts.
It said it wanted to replace words such as " innovative" in job ads to try to avoid discouraging older applicants.
Instead it will say it is looking for competencies such as " contributing new ideas" or " problem solving".
Phoenix Group chief executive Andy Briggs , who is the government's " business champion" for older workers, that some workers had been disproportionately hit by the pandemic.
The insurer employs More Than 7,000 people in the UK and is currently advertising 83 vacancies. The percentage of Phoenix employees aged 45 or over is 44%.
The Employment rate for people aged between 50 and 64 has been increasing steadily since the mid-1990s, and in April to June 2021 stood at 71. 2%, according to official figures. However, that increase has lagged behind younger age groups in the pandemic.
, and between October and December hit 1. 24 million.
Sectors that have been include health and hospitality.
Source of news: bbc.com
