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ArticleKeep up to date with the Autumn Budget 2018
Chancellor Philip Hammond will deliver his Autumn Budget 2018 speech at approximately 3.30pm on Monday 29 October 2018.Stay tuned to the Employee Benefits website for all the latest updates on how the Autumn Budget could impact employers and staff.In the Autumn Budget 2017, key announcements included: an increase in the ...
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ArticleMorrisons loses High Court appeal over breach of payroll data
Supermarket chain Morrisons has lost a challenge to a High Court ruling that found it partly liable for a data breach leading to payroll data of around 10,000 staff being posted online.Andrew Skelton, who was senior auditor at the organisation's Bradford headquarters, posted the workers' names, addresses, bank account details ...
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ArticleIndustrial Tribunal awards £3,000 to man told he was ‘too old’ to apply for job
Image credit: Equality Commission NIAn Industrial Tribunal has awarded £3,000 to a 63-year-old man from Antrim who was told he was too old to apply for a job as a store person and van driver by Spring and Airbrake Ireland.The Tribunal found Patrick Matier (pictured), whose case was supported by ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Have your say in new pensions research
EXCLUSIVE: How does your organisation approach pensions communication? How have pension freedoms impacted your business’ pension strategy? Have your say in our new pensions research.Take part in the exclusive Employee Benefits Pension research 2018, which aims to help you benchmark your organisation’s pension strategy.We are particularly interested in hearing about ...
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ArticleEmployee Benefits’ Healthcare Research 2018
Click to download the Employee Benefits/Health Shield healthcare research 2018The Employee Benefits/Health Shield healthcare research 2018 was conducted in July 2018 among readers of employeebenefits.co.uk. It received 162 responses.This report is aimed at helping compensation, reward and benefits professionals benchmark their organisation’s health and wellbeing provision, looking at the related ...
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ArticleCommittee recommends new duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment
The Women and Equalities Committee has recommended that the government introduce a new duty on employers to help prevent sexual harassment in the workplace.The recommendation forms part of the Sexual harassment in the workplace report, and corresponding recommendations, published today (Wednesday 25 July 2018). These are based on the results ...
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ArticleTake part in exclusive healthcare benefits research
What benefits and strategies do you offer to support employees’ mental health? What do you feel you have a duty of care to encourage employees to do around their health and wellbeing?Have your say in the exclusive Employee Benefits healthcare research 2018, which is designed to help you benchmark your ...
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ArticleEmployee Benefits' Benefits Research 2018
Click to download the Employee Benefits' Benefits research 2018The Employee Benefits' Benefits research 2018 was conducted in March 2018 among readers of employeebenefits.co.uk. It received 172 responses.This report is aimed at helping compensation, reward and benefits professionals understand the key issues driving current benefits strategies, as well as issues shaping ...
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Article12.5m people covered by group risk schemes in 2017
Nearly 12.5 million individuals were covered by group risk schemes at the end of 2017, according to research by Swiss Re.Its Group watch 2018 report, which is based on data collected from 16 product providers in the group risk market in the UK, 18 employee benefits consultancies and one independent ...
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ArticleThe tax and legislation changes impacting reward from April 2018
With the arrival of the new tax year, a number of measures impacting pay and benefits are scheduled to come into effect. Below is a round up of these measures, along with other tax and legislation changes, that employers need to be aware of from April 2018:National minimum wage and ...
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ArticleGovernment committee proposes giving fathers 12 weeks' paid paternity leave
The Women and Equalities Committee has recommended the introduction of 12 weeks' paid paternity leave and that statutory paternity pay should be set at 90% of fathers’ pay.The recommendation forms part of the Committee’s Fathers and the workplace report, published on Tuesday 20 March 2018, which sets out proposals on ...
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ArticleCourt of Appeal rules in favour of Air Products in long-term incentive plan age discrimination case
The Court of Appeal has allowed an appeal by industrial gas and chemical retailer Air Products, finding that the organisation can objectively justify retirement at a specific age as a good leaver reason within its long-term incentive plan.The case, Air Products v Cockram, regards employee Michael Cockram, who resigned from ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Have your say in benefits strategy research
What are the key issues and challenges shaping your organisation’s benefits strategy? What are your organisation’s plans for developing a future-fit benefits strategy? How have the changes to salary sacrifice arrangements impacted on your organisation’s benefits provision?Take part in the exclusive Employee Benefits’ Benefits research 2018 to benchmark your organisation’s ...
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ArticlePeople Value acquires Remus Rewards
Motivation and employee engagement provider People Value has acquired UK-based reward and loyalty organisation Remus Rewards.Remus Rewards, which was founded in 2011, is a UK provider of programmes and technology designed to enhance employee or employer value proposition, improve performance, and increase employee loyalty. The employee reward and loyalty organisation ...
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Article44% of employers do not know what GDPR is
More than two-fifths (44%) of employer respondents do not know what the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is, according to research by SD Worx.Its survey of 1,800 HR and payroll professionals across nine European markets also found that 55% of respondents who are aware of GDPR believe that the regulation ...
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ArticleHow will the Autumn Budget 2017 impact pay and benefits?
Chancellor Philip Hammond (pictured) delivered the Autumn Budget speech to the House of Commons on Wednesday 22 October 2017. Below is a summary of the key announcements that could impact employers’ pay and benefits strategies:The tax-free personal allowance will increase to £11,850 in April 2018, an increase of £350 from ...
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ArticleSharesave savings break extended for staff on parental leave
Autumn Budget 2017: Employees on maternity or paternity leave will be able to take up to a 12-month break from saving into a sharesave (save as you earn) scheme.The change, which was announced as part of the Autumn Budget 2017, will take effect from 6 April 2017.Previously, employees could take ...
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ArticlePoll: 56% think employers in the gig economy should provide minimum benefits
Employee Benefits poll: More than half (56%) of respondents think that employers which operate in the gig economy should be required to provide a minimum level of benefits for those working for them.A straw poll of www.employeebenefits.co.uk readers, which received 25 responses, also found that 36% of respondents feel that ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: Google advises employers to invest in people as much as technology
Employee Benefits Live 2017: Employers should ensure they invest in their people as much as in new technologies in order to create an empowering organisational culture and a strong business environment.In the closing keynote address at Employee Benefits Live 2017 in a session titled ‘How can HR lead the workplace ...
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ArticleHigh Court to rule in Morrisons payroll data leak case
More than 5,500 employees who brought a payroll data leak class action lawsuit against retail organisation Morrisons will see the trial progress to the High Court in London this week.The two-week High Court trial, which commenced on Monday 9 October 2017, is based on a class action lawsuit brought by ...