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Buyer's guide to corporate gym membership 2013
Organisations are recognising that corporate gym membership can help to produce more engaged employees who tend to be happier and have more energy and motivation in the workplace.Signing up to corporate gym membership can save staff money, especially if it is fully funded by the employer. It can be offered ...
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Buyer's guide to healthcare trusts 2013
A cost-effective alternative to private medical insurance (PMI) is for an employer to provide medical cover for staff through a healthcare trust. This can be particularly beneficial for organisations with more than 500 employees and a medical benefit spend exceeding £250,000 a year.Healthcare trusts, which first appeared in the 1980s, ...
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Zoe Lynch: Will the government's proposed 0.75% pension charges cap be enough?
Since the advent of automatic-enrolment, the government is rightly concerned to ensure that pension scheme members are getting value for money.As a result, we have seen a dizzying number of initiatives and consultations launched in the last few months on workplace pensions, with everyone from the Department for Work and ...
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Raphael Healthcare launches smoking cessation plan
EXCLUSIVE: Raphael Healthcare has launched an initiative to support employees who wish to give up smoking.The initiative, called New Leaf, was introduced in September and communicated via newsletters, team briefs and staff forums.Esther Josiah, HR manager at Raphael Healthcare, says: “Employees attend a meeting with a practice nurse who provides ...
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Line managers too stressed to help staff
Line managers are too stressed and have little time to help employees deal with stress, according to research by health insurer Bupa.The research, which was conducted to support Bupa’s Healthy Minds programme, surveyed 6,000 employees across a range of industries and job titles.It found that more than half (51%) of ...
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Scottish Widows partners Gallagher Employee Benefits for auto-enrolment support
Scottish Widows has partnered Gallagher Employee Benefits to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) through auto-enrolment legislation.Gallagher Employee Benefits has developed a service, called GroupSure, which provides access to a range of employee benefits, including a workplace pension. It offers simplified administration aimed at SMEs.A key focus of the service ...
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David Lloyd Leisure launches corporate gym benefit
David Lloyd Leisure has launched a corporate gym membership called DL Flex.The scheme can be offered by employers to employees through a flexible benefits package, via a salary sacrifice arrangement, as a net pay gym loan deduction or as an employer-paid benefit.The corporate gym membership includes:A session with a personal ...
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Only three hours of productivity a day
Something for the weekend…How much time a day do your employees actually spend working? It seems that the average office worker spends only two hours and 53 minutes a day being productive.According to research by Vouchercloud.com, most of us spend the working day procrastinating, discussing out-of-work activities with colleagues and ...
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DOD’s blog: Cycle to work safety is vital
When employers know that staff cycle to work do they do enough to promote safety on the roads, I wonder.I only ask because, although I am a strong advocate of treating staff like grown ups and not being an employer nanny, I see too many drivers and cyclists behaving in ...
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Top 10 most read stories this week
The top 10 most read articles on employeebenefits.co.uk from 14-21 November:1. How to measure workplace stress2. QVC reduces group risk costs by 63%3. BT Group expands global pay review process4. Buck Consultants and Wragge & Co launch auto-enrolment initiative5. Britvic recognised for employee engagement 6. Norton Rose Fulbright hosts wellbeing ...
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HMRC offers tax settle opportunity on EFRBS
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has offered employers the opportunity to settle the tax arising on employer-financed retirement benefit schemes (EFRBS).The settlement opportunity is open until 31 December 2013, with enquiries to be settled by 30 June 2014.EFRBSs are discretionary trusts set up by an employer to provide benefits for ...
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NCR enters defined benefits pensions buy-in
The NCR Pension Plan has entered into a pension insurance buy-in with Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC).The transaction aims to secure benefits for members of the technology organisation’s defined benefit (DB) pension scheme by transferring around £670 million of assets.The NCR Pension Plan covers approximately 5,600 members who were formerly, or ...
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Duncan Brown: Low pay, no way
These include free childcare funded by a banking levy (Labour); taking those on the minimum wage out of income tax altogether (Liberal Democrats); and tax breaks for married couples (Conservatives).I was at two events in September exploring some of the ways in which the HR community might contribute on the ...
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Mishcon de Reya appoints Ben Southworth
Mishcon de Reya has appointed Ben Southworth compensation and benefits manager.He has moved to the organisation from General Dynamics UK, where he held a variety of roles since 2003, including: HR manager, compensation and benefits senior analyst, compensation and benefits adviser and senior HR administrator.Vanessa Dewhurst, director of HR at ...
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Effective employee value propositions engage staff
Global organisations that use an employee value proposition (EVP) most effectively are five times more likely to report that their employees are highly engaged, according to research by Towers Watson.Its Change and communication ROI survey, which questioned 207 large and mid-sized organisations in Asia, Europe and North America, found that ...
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Use of self-service HR and payroll on the rise
A quarter of respondents intend to introduce self-service HR and payroll in the next two years, according to research by MidlandHR.Its research, Self-service e-evolution: HR and payroll, which surveyed 200 HR and payroll managers from UK organisations with more than 500 employees, found that almost two-thirds (61%) of respondents that ...
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Barnett Waddingham launches auto-enrolment website
Barnett Waddingham has launched an auto-enrolment website to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs).The website, which is in partnership with provider Standard Life, also supports the pension consultants’ services already in place for SMEs.Its features include:Tips and a guide for SMEs on auto-enrolment.Animated videos that demonstrate the benefits of the ...
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DP World appoints Justine Brown
DP World has appointed Justine Brown HR director for Europe and Russia.She joins from John Laing Integrated Services, where she has been HR director for more than three years. She has also been HR director, primary care at Care UK.Previously, Brown spent more than 13 years at Taylor Woodrow, where ...
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Flex more popular among large employers
EXCLUSIVE: Flexible benefits schemes are more popular among larger employers, according to research by Aon Hewitt.Its Employee benefits and trends survey 2013, which Employee Benefits published a section of exclusively in September, questioned nearly 350 UK HR and benefits professionals.It found that 44% of respondents with more than 500 employees ...
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TPR launches auto-enrolment compliance for recruiters
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has carried out a series of fact-finding visits to recruitment organisations to ensure they are prepared for auto-enrolment.The visits, which TPR is making to a range of sectors, are to prevent and tackle possible breaches, ensure compliance, learn lessons and share good practice among the industry.The ...