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Auto-enrolment anomalies warning
Organisations that use contractors must identify whether such people are contractors or should be treated as workers for legal purposes. If they are classed as workers, they will need to be auto-enrolled into the organisation’s pension scheme.Mark Baker, senior associate at law firm Pinsent Masons, said: “There was a recent ...
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Debi O'Donovan: Relaunched website lets you dig deeper
For well over a decade, Employee Benefits has appeared as both a print and a web-based publication. Initially, the monthly print magazine led the game, with the website acting as a resource library.In September 2012, we relaunched our website. This has enabled us to switch to publishing many articles, such ...
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Duncan Brown: The soul of benefits management
Nelson Mandela said you can judge the soul of a society by how it treats its children. Halifax’s annual Pocket money survey last month left my teenage girls disappointed. Rather than upping the financial ante on dad, it revealed an annual 8% decline to £5.98 per week, a 6% increase ...
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Employers take holistic view of staff health
A number of employers have held wellness days or standalone events to promote wellbeing issues, encourage staff to use the benefits available to support their health, and show how to improve their lifestyle.Deloitte hosted two seminars for its employees in September, one focusing on men’s health and the other on ...
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Interview with Jim Cowan, head of benefits at Royal Bank of Scotland
The art of communication is a key ingredient for a successful career in reward and benefits. That is a lesson that has served Jim Cowan, head of benefits at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group, well during a career that has spanned more than three decades with RBS, 20 ...
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Pensions Summit covered key issues on 31 January & 1 February 2013
The information needs of HR or benefits managers who are responsible for a pension plan are slightly different from the needs of dedicated pensions managers. The programme reflects this by looking as issues such as the pension implications of workforce planning and flexible retirement.Topics tend to focus on defined contribution ...
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Tracy Finn: How should employers celebrate the end of the year with staff?
We are used to catering for any brief or budget and working with companies looking for something special. There are some memorable past examples that could provide possible ideas for other employers.For a unique experience, one company requested exclusive access to the Shoe Boudoir at Harrods. All guests were treated ...
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Debbie Lovewell: Health and wellbeing disclosure
In a similar vein, many investors are now pushing organisations to disclose information on their approach to human capital management, including, for the first time, information on the health and wellbeing of their workforce.Investors’ interest in such disclosure was initially fuelled by a government report, Accounting for people, which was ...
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Upcoming Employee Benefits events
14 December 2012:Entry deadline for Employee Benefits Awards 2013. Entries open this month. View all categories and enter online.31 January/1 February 2013:Pensions and Workplace Savings Summit. Dedicated event for benefits and HR professionals responsible for their organisation’s pension schemes.1 March 2013:Employee Benefits Connect. Networking, thought leadership event for benefits and ...
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Get ready to enter the Employee Benefits Awards 2013
This year, employers are encouraged to enter both new initiatives that they have introduced through the year, as well as longer-running successful reward strategies.There is no restriction on how long ago a benefit or strategy was launched, as long as the quantifiable measures to demonstrate its success are from 2012. ...
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John Lewis sees cinema voucher demand increase
EXCLUSIVE: John Lewis has seen a 173% rise in take-up of its cinema vouchers since it rebranded its Cinema Benefits portal in March.The portal, provided by Filmology, allows employees to log in and buy discounted cinema vouchers for over 440 cinemas around the UK, including Cineworld and Empire cinemas.More than ...
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Speaker slides from Employee Benefits Live 2012 available
Where we have agreement, the speaker slides from Employee Benefits Live are now available online. You will find the slides within the conference programme when you go through to the Employee Benefits Live website.If no presentations are available, they will not appear in the programme.The event, which took place at ...
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Employee Benefits Reward Academy
Employee Benefits magazine has teamed up with the Total Reward Group to launch the Employee Benefits Academy.It will provide dedicated courses on employees benefits for practioners.The Employee Benefits Academy is powered by the Total Reward Group which was founded in 2005 by Mark Childs, former CIPD vice president of Reward.The ...
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BT workers lunch in style
And now something for the weekend…Most employees run out at lunch for a sandwich from the local shop or use the canteen facilities at work, but a couple of BT employees have been spotted making the most of their lunch hour in Saville Row.BT Openreach engineers Matt Bevan, 49, and ...
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ECJ considers Tupe case
The European Court of Justice is currently hearing a case that could impact on the remuneration employers provide to employees as part of a transfer covered by transfer of undertakings (protection of employment) (Tupe) regulations.The case, Parkwood Leisure versus Alemo-Herron and others, involves a private sector organisation that took over ...
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Legal and General highlights workplace stress
Legal and General has launched a campaign to highlight how stress in the workplace is affecting employees in financial services and what employers can do to help.The campaign, Stress in the City, will include posters in London’s main commuter train stations.Glen Laming, employment services director at Legal and General, said: ...
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Call for tax break on workplace health
A removal of taxes on workplace health support could boost the UK economy by nearly £443 million, according to research by Bupa.Its Getting Britain fit for the recovery report found that cutting tax could prevent 3.8 sick days.Small- and medium-sized enterprises could see productivity gains of £282 million, while larger ...
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Decline in FTSE 100 directors’ pay rises
Salary increases and bonus payouts for executive directors in 2012 are lower than the previous period, according to research by Deloitte.The 2012 FTSE 100 Executive directors’ remuneration report found that the median salary increase for company directors is around 2.5%. It also found that one-third will not receive any increase ...
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AAF and McQuay raise discounts take-up
EXCLUSIVE: Air filtration supplier AAF and heating ventilation manufacturer McQuay have seen a third of employees take up their new voluntary benefits scheme since it was launched in May.The two organisations share a UK office of 400 staff and launched a single employee discounts scheme across their workforces.The scheme, provided ...
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JetBlue rolls out recognition scheme
JetBlue Airways has launched a peer-to-peer recognition programme for its 14,500 employees based across the Americas.The Lift programme, which is provided by Globoforce, allows the airline to engage and motivate employees to best exemplify its five core values: safety, caring, integrity, fun and passion.It is available to employees in Aruba, ...