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ArticleGovernment updates BYOD guidance
Employers need to consider key security aspects when allowing employees to bring their own devices to work following updated guidance from the government’s National Technical Authority for Information Assurance. The government has updated its bring-your-own-device (BYOD) guidance for employers following a rapid increase in the use of mobile devices and ...
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ArticleHyde Group to add new perks to flexible benefits
EXCLUSIVE: The Hyde Group is to introduce a number of new flexible benefits during its next annual enrolment window to reflect staff preferences.Following feedback from employee surveys, the organisation will introduce dental insurance, an individual savings account (Isa), critical illness cover and salary sacrifice arrangements for mobile phone and technology, ...
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ArticleEmployee fails to win claim for outstanding sick pay
An employee has appealed against the initial ruling in an unfair dismissal case, Mr Clutch Auto Centres v Blakemore.The employment tribunal ruled that the claimant was still an employee of the respondent, despite the claimant arguing that he had been wrongfully dismissed and the respondent claiming that he had resigned. ...
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ArticleCourt rules employers are liable for lost pension rights
Employers could be liable to pay pension contributions to employees that are found to have been unfairly dismissed and have lost out on pension rights as a result.However, in such cases, employers must also be aware of the types of tribunal guidance on which such calculations can be based, the ...
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Rolls-Royce switches healthcare trust provider
Rolls-Royce has switched providers for its healthcare trust.Its new agreement, under which the healthcare trust will be provided by Alliance Surgical, will enable Rolls-Royce to develop a full occupational health strategy.This will enable the organisation to promote employee health and wellbeing throughout the business, with a core focus on health ...
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Article81% offer some form of flexible benefits
The popularity of flexible benefits plans has risen in the past ten years with 35% of respondents offering full flex compared to 11% in 2004, according to research by Staffcare.Its See the benefits: A whitepaper on the latest trends in flexible benefits and technology report, which surveyed 108 HR professionals, ...
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ArticleEmployee Benefits Awards 2015 categories
BEST STAFF TRAVEL POLICYMost effective travel strategy for business and perk car driversBEST HEALTHCARE AND WELLBEING BENEFITS – SMALL EMPLOYERMost effective healthcare and wellbeing strategy for employers with fewer than 1,000 staffBEST HEALTHCARE AND WELLBEING BENEFITS – LARGE EMPLOYERMost effective healthcare and wellbeing strategy for employers with more than 1,000 ...
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ArticleDebbie Lovewell-Tuck: Balancing pay expectations with pension costs
All employees naturally want to achieve the best standard of living possible, and human nature dictates that many will base this on what they can afford to buy and do with their take-home pay.However, by focusing on their short- or even medium-term future, some employees could be overlooking the bigger ...
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Article23% saving the most they can afford for retirement
Less than a quarter (23%) of respondents are saving the most they can afford into a pension, according to research by Friends Life. Its UK Retirement savings map, which surveyed 18,000 UK adults, benchmarked how active respondents are in saving into a pension. The North East, Scotland and the North ...
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ArticleVirgin Money to award staff £1,000 share bonus
Virgin Money is to grant each of its 2,800 permanent employees £1,000 in shares at its initial public offering when the bank floats on the London Stock Exchange.With the exception of directors and senior management, the retail bank will award the shares to its employees a year after it floats, ...
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ArticleEmployee Benefits Live 2014 speaker slides
Where speakers have given approval, we have uploaded the slides for sessions at Employee Benefits Live 2014.We would like to say a huge thank you to all our speakers for their inspiration, ideas and input in to Employee Benefits Live 2014. Day 1- 24 September 2014 KN1- Redesigning the? employee ...
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Santander and Samsung drive flex take up with effective communications
Santander and Samsung have a strong focus on communication to help staff make informed decisions and to maximise take up of their flexible beenfits schemes.Speaking at Employee Benefits Live 2014 in a session titled ‘Flexible benefits to drive employee engagement’, Elliot Rees-Davies, head of reward at Santander, explained that the ...
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ArticleDOD's blog: Long live group risk insurance
There is nothing more exciting than insurance, surely?This week has been group risk-tastic, with two events dedicated to the topic. Lucky you, I hear you all chant!Seriously though, group risk is a market ripe for innovation. It hasn’t exactly kept pace with changing workforce demographics and needs for some time ...
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ArticleBelgian police performance dips in pensions protest
Something for the weekend…Police officers in Belgium may appear to be a little laid back at present as they protest over pensions.Staff performance has dipped with police officers waiving traffic fines for people driving over the speed limit, forgetting to buckle seat belts or parking illegally.It seems they are turning ...
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ArticleMost talked-about news in September
The government has confirmed its intention to remove the annual contribution limit and transfer restrictions on the National Employment Savings Trust (Nest). The restrictions on annual contributions, which currently stand at a maximum of £4,600, and bulk transfers will be lifted on 1 April 2017.?We fully welcome proposals to remove ...
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ArticleNorton Rose Fulbright to hold events on mental health awareness
Norton Rose Fulbright will hold a series of events for staff to highlight the importance of mental health awareness in the workplace in the week leading up to World Mental Health Awareness Day.The law firm will launch its mental health awareness strategy on the week commencing 6 October.World Mental Health ...
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Article31% of UK employers give bonuses to lowest-performing staff
Approximately a third (31%) of UK employers give bonuses to employees with the lowest performance rating, according to research by Towers Watson. The 2014 Towers Watson Global workforce study, which surveyed 32,000 employees including 1,863 in the UK, found that employers are spreading the pay pot more thinly and evenly ...
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ArticleNeil Morrison: Should employers use social media to communicate benefits?
If an employer wants to communicate effectively, it is best to use the channels that people are on, not try to create new ones.There is an interesting additional dynamic that comes up when we start to look at organisations’ internal use of external social media channels, such as Twitter and ...
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ArticlePensions research 2014: Key findings
The survey, which was carried out in September 2014 among readers of Employee Benefits and users of www.employeebenefits.co.uk, received 216 responses.Key findings78% of respondents now offer a group personal pensins plan as their primary pension scheme 24% offer a master trust 32% of respondents contribute 6-10% of salary for the ...
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ArticleBazaarvoice extends global bonus plan
Bazaarvoice has extended its incentive programme to pay its entire workforce incentive compensation plans in multiple currencies.The consumer ratings and reviews network organisation launched the programme, provided by Xactly, when its manual compensation practices were not deemed to be at an acceptable level in terms of auditability and accuracy. Incentive ...