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Home Instead launches discounts scheme
Home Instead Senior Care has launched an employee discounts site for its employees.The site, which is called Home Instead Benefits, is provided by BHSF.The senior home care provider has offered staff at a number of its franchises a health cash plan through BHSF for several years.Kevin Warburton, project manager at ...
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Manage Health to launch pay-as-you-go EAP
EXCLUSIVE: Manage Health is to launch a pay-as-you-go employee assistance programme (EAP) that aims to help employers save money.The healthcare provider has designed the EAP to provide employers with control over the services they offer staff, so that the money they spend relates directly to theiremployees’ needs.Alyson Fennemore, director at ...
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Mentors give career guidance at Employee Benefits Live
Delegates looking to advance their career in reward and benefits will be able to take advantage of guidance and advice from a panel of top benefits practitioners and award-winning benefits professionals at Employee Benefits Live.During careers clinics, which are sponsored by JSW Resources, visitors will be able to drop in ...
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Firefighters to strike over pension changes
Firefighters are to take strike action on 25 September over the government’s reforms to their pension scheme.Almost 80% of members of the Fire Brigades Union in England and Wales who were polled voted in favour of industrial action in a ballot earlier in September.The proposed pension changes, which are set ...
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Bonuses for FTSE executives down in 2013
Executives at the UK’s largest organisations have seen their bonuses fall for a second year in a row, according to research by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC).Its 2013 Executive reward survey, which is based on the reports of 204 companies in the FTSE 350, found restraint in total pay across senior management positions, ...
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Busy Bees Benefits launches mobile phone scheme
EXCLUSIVE: Busy Bees Benefits is to launch a mobile phone scheme at Employee Benefits Live on 25 and 26 September.The scheme, which is provided via a salary sacrifice arrangement, is designed for employers to help employees save money on their mobile phone bills.Employees will receive tax and national insurance (NI) ...
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Ceridian launches EAP mobile app
Ceridian has launched an employee assistance programme (EAP) mobile application (app) for employers to provide counselling support for employees.The human capital management and services provider has partnered LifeWorks to produce the app in the UK, following a launch in the US.The app, which is available to download on all smartphones, ...
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Sam Gee: Should zero-hours contracts include a minimum benefits provision?
Flexibility is good for business. Matching the people needed to the peaks and troughs in work makes for an efficient operation.Having the biggest choice of available workers is also good for business and people such as retirees, carers, students or second-jobbers may be looking for occasional earnings. So I can ...
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Consultation on bankers' bonuses launched
The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched a consultation in July on the instruments that banks can use to satisfy the standards of its bankers’ bonus cap legislation.The EBA’s draft Regulatory Technical Standards, which includes the requirement for banks to pay 50% of variable remuneration in non-cash instruments, is expected to ...
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Gain free tax and legal advice at Employee Benefits Live
Human resources, benefits and reward professionals will be able to gain free tax and legal advice on key benefits issues during several drop-in sessions at this year’s Employee Benefits Live.In the Auto-enrolment Drop-In clinics, delegates can seek advice and support from legal experts. These include David Farmer, partner at DLA ...
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Anglian Water launches workplace savings scheme
Anglian Water Group has launched a workplace savings scheme to offer an easy way for its employees to save.The organisation has partnered Barclays Corporate and Employer Solutions (C&ES) to offer its 4,000 staff workplace savings accounts, which enables them to save up to £3,000 a year over a three-year period.Employees ...
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LV= revamps auto-enrolment pension communications
LV= has revamped its pension communications as part of its compliance with auto-enrolment.The insurance organisation has launched an online hub called Pensions Village to engage employees with its trust-based defined contribution (DC) pension scheme.It auto-enrolled 600 employees into the scheme, which already had 4.700 active members, on 1 May.LV= worked ...
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Afren, Babcock and Immarsat named for ignoring shareholders
Afren, Babcock and Immarsat are among 10 FTSE companies that have been named for ignoring investor concerns about their remuneration reports.Analysis of the 2013 annual general meeting (AGM) season by the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), in the NAPF AGM Season report, found that, while most companies that faced ...
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Auto-enrolment could cost employers £15.4bn
UK organisations are facing £15.4 billion in set-up costs to meet the requirements of auto-enrolment legislation, according to research by independent economic consultancy Centre for Economic Business Research (CEBR) and commissioned by Creative Auto Enrolment.The Finding your way out of the auto-enrolment maze report found that small employers, with between ...
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The Pensions Trust awarded PQM Ready
The Pensions Trust has been awarded the Pension Quality Mark (PMQ) Ready in recognition of its low charges, clear communications and strong governance.The multi-employer pension fund has assets of more than £5.5 billion and covers more than 2,400 employers and 157,000 members.The PQM was launched by the National Association of ...
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Pets at Home launches master trust for auto-enrolment
Pets at Home has launched a master trust to comply with auto-enrolment.The pet care retailer, which has 6,000 employees across more than 350 UK stores, began to plan for the legislation in 2011.It invited a number of providers to tender for the scheme, from which it appointed Legal and General.Ryan ...
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ArticleThird of City job searchers value pay
Just 29% of respondents chose salary as the most important criteria for selecting a new job, according to research by financial services recruitment firm Empiric.Its research found that 27% of respondents said that having a good work-life balance was their main consideration.It also found that 39% of respondents value having ...
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Jelf Employee Benefits launches auto-enrolment guide for SMEs
Jelf Employee Benefits has launched a free downloadable guide to provide information to small and medium-sized employers (SMEs) on auto-enrolment.The online guide is based on the consultancy’s hands-on experience dealing with large organisations and auto-enrolment.It is divided into nine sections with three headline messages for SMEs:Sort out your data: Auto-enrolment ...
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ADP staff support National Payroll Week
ADP has run a series of events for employees to support National Payroll Week 2013.The events, which ran from 2 to 6 September, included training and advice sessions, an education-themed quiz, and a competition for employees to tell ADP about their more memorable learning experience, in line with the 2013 ...
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Mental health and auto-enrolment hot topics at Employee Benefits Live
How to do more with less, pensions auto-enrolment, managing mental health issues and employee engagement are just some of the hot topics that will be addressed in the two-day conference programme at Employee Benefits Live.On the second day of the event, Sally Purbrick, head of reward at Anglian Water, will ...