ORR benefits

Our employees enjoy a generous annual leave allowance on top of bank holidays. This starts at 25, rising incrementally up to 30 days on your anniversary. 

In addition to the statutory bank holidays you will also receive one day's privilege day for the Official Birthday of King Charles III.

Your pension is a valuable part of your total reward package. All ORR employees are enrolled onto the Civil Service Pension Scheme.

Along with your salary, it is one of the most important benefits of joining the Civil Service.

A Civil Service pension provides you with financial security and options when you retire, as well as key benefits for your family and loved ones.

ORR contributes 28.97% and employee contributions start at 4.60% for the Defined Benefit Alpha scheme. 

There is a choice of a Defined Contribution scheme in Partnership if more suitable for you.

Find out more on the Civil Service Pension Scheme website.

At ORR, our hybrid working means that we currently work from our workplace location a minimum of 40% of our working week, although requirements to attend other offsite locations for official business, also count towards this level of attendance.  Working arrangements are subject to continuous review.   

We offer generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave packages, after a qualifying period. Our enhanced arrangements include 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, for maternity and adoption.

We offer paternity leave of three weeks full pay.

Interest-free loans are available to help colleagues buy an annual season ticket for their journey to and from work. This includes rail, London Underground, bus or other season tickets.

We offer the following to support your wellbeing:

• A Cycle to Work scheme can enable you to purchase a bike via salary sacrifice - saving on tax and paying for it in monthly instalments deducted from your pay.
• A supportive sick pay scheme for those times when you are ill, and access to a specialist occupational health service.
• We provide flu vaccinations every year.
• By using a computer at work, you are eligible for a free eye test plus a discount on glasses.
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) is a counselling and advisory service available online, over the phone or face to face and is accessible to all employees. It is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, covering any issue that may be affecting you.

We aim to do everything we can to support your personal and professional development and offer a range of courses and opportunities to nurture this, including access to myLearning and Civil Service Learning platforms.

We offer up to five days paid leave each year for volunteering for community or charity projects, and other causes which provide a public service benefit.