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    Staff unenthused by corporate platforms

    2012-09-26T08:26:00Z

    The majority of employees are unenthusiastic about workplace savings platforms, according to research by The Platforum.For example, between just 5% and 10% of respondents have signed up for an Individual savings account (Isa) through their employer, preferring to source financial products from banks and building societies.The research, the Workplace savings ...

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    Asda focuses on auto-enrolment administration

    2012-09-26T08:14:00Z

    Auto-enrolment planning must include a focus on the administration systems needed to run a scheme, warned Jane Earnshaw, head of reward at Asda, during a session at Employee Benefits Live.Asda is due to go live with its auto-enrolment scheme on Monday, 1 October.Earnshaw advised organisations that are starting to make ...

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    Tesco reviews global mobility compliance

    2012-09-26T08:10:00Z

    Tesco is to work with its advisers to ensure its global mobility programme is still compliant.Speaking at Employee Benefits Live 2012, Elly Parselle, head of global mobility at Tesco, explained that the retailer started with global mobility in the mid-1990s.Several years ago it set up a Global Employment Company (GEC), ...

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    Engagement surveys measure benefits ROI

    2012-09-26T08:09:00Z

    Groupon and Virgin Media are measuring the return on investment (ROI) of their benefits package with employee engagement surveys.The organisations shared the background around these surveys in a session at Employee Benefits Live on 25 September.Groupon has an annual engagement survey called Pulse, as well as monthly focus groups for ...

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    Informa educates staff on pensions

    2012-09-25T16:50:00Z

    A robust communications strategy will help employees make informed decisions about pensions, said Thomas Humphris, head of office HR and UK reward at publishing firm Informa.Speaking at Employee Benefits Live on 25 September, Humphris said that it was important that communication with employees about the auto-enrolment changes was easier to ...

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    Oracle launches voluntary benefits

    2012-09-25T16:48:00Z

    Oracle has launched a voluntary benefits scheme for its UK employees to help them maximise their disposable income.Speaking at the keynote address on 25 September at Employee Benefits Live, Michelle Connolly, compensation and benefits director at Oracle, said: “We can’t change the economic environment, we can’t necessarily change the pay ...

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    Tune in for breaking news at Employee Benefits Live

    2012-09-25T08:00:00Z

    Europe’s largest reward and benefits conference and exhibition, Employee Benefits Live 2012, begins today at Olympia in London.The Employee Benefits’ team will be reporting live from the event, which runs from 25 to 26 September, so follow us on Twitter at #EBLive for breaking news from the event.Whether looking to ...

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    Andy Porter is HR director at TWMA

    2012-09-24T11:46:00Z

    He has more than 30 years of experience in operational and strategic HR management, and has held senior roles in a wide range of industries, including oil and gas, telecommunications and professionals services.

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    Employers need longer to plug pension deficits

    2012-09-24T10:48:00Z

    Organisations will need an extra three years to plug rising pension scheme deficits, taking the average repayment period to 11 years, according to research by accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC).The research, which covered 98 recent defined benefit (DB) pension scheme valuations, found that, there will be a reversal of previous years’ ...

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    Health & Wellbeing Report (October 2012)

    2012-09-24T10:20:00Z

    To read the supplement, please click here.

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    Three men join Invesco Perpetual

    2012-09-24T09:46:00Z

    All three join the firm from Standard Life Investments, where Jubb and Millar were multi-asset portfolio managers and Batty was a member of the firm’s strategic research team.

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    Only People appoints Simon Belton

    2012-09-24T09:46:00Z

    Belton’s experience in the industry includes a range of in-house and consulting roles, including: interim head of reward at Midlands Co-operative Society, head of pensions at Spirit Pub Company, international benefit consultant at Thomsons Online Benefits, service delivery manager at Hewitt Associates (now Aon Hewitt) and pensions consultant at KPMG.Anthony ...

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    Anneke Heaton moves to Nuffield Health

    2012-09-24T09:46:00Z

    Heaton’s previous experience in the industry includes: reward and wellbeing manager at IPC, reward manager at the BBC, reward manager at Wolters Kluwer, and compensation and benefits manager at Towers Perrin (now Towers Watson).

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    Jane Vivier joins Amadeus

    2012-09-24T09:46:00Z

    Vivier has eight years’ experience in reward and benefits, most recently as reward and recognition manager at Cancer Research UK.Previous roles include: senior reward manager at the UK Border Agency, reward adviser at Kent County Council and staff services manager at British Airways London Eye.Vivier will be among the leading ...

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    Aegon savings role for Andrew Taylor

    2012-09-24T09:46:00Z

    Taylor joins Aegon UK from Scottish Widows, where he has held various roles over the past two years, including: senior proposition manager – workplace savings platform, senior proposition manager – corporate wrap, and senior proposition development manager.With 24 years’ experience in financial services, Taylor’s previous roles include pension product manager ...

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    Louise Phillips moves up at IBM

    2012-09-24T09:42:00Z

    Her previous role at IBM, which she held for four years, was European HR benefits leader.She has held a range of other roles at IBM since 2003, including Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) HR commercial and engagement consultant and HR engagement manager.

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    Buyer's guide to electronic voucher cards

    2012-09-24T09:41:00Z

    Electronic vouchers offer a secure, convenient and environmentally-friendly way to reward and motivate employees with savings on a variety of goods and services.Since Boots launched its Advantage points card for consumers in 1997, major retailers have followed suit, with more progressive employers now providing electronic voucher cards as part of ...

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    Confessions of a benefits manager: Work in progress

    2012-09-24T08:17:00Z

    I am not sure what came over me, really. One minute I was casually browsing around LinkedIn, the next minute I was applying for two jobs. It’s not like I was having a particularly bad day or anything. Big Bad Boss is travelling, and the Higher Beings have been quiet ...

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    Cary L Cooper: How should employers celebrate the end of the year with staff?

    2012-09-24T07:15:00Z

    No wonder people drink so much at this end-of-year celebration.There must be better ways to close the old year and bring in the new one, but when December rolls around, we tend to get the same old venue, speeches and rubber chickens, with little time to think up a good ...

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    Gary Brewer: How should employers celebrate the end of the year with staff?

    2012-09-24T07:14:00Z

    In recognition of a record year in 2011, when our company achieved sales of five million cases of Grant’s and one million cases of Glenfiddich, dispatched 10 million cases of product out of our Bellshill Centre bottling plant near Glasgow, and distilled 85 million litres of absolute alcohol at our ...