All Benefits for carers articles – Page 83
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Do parents know the real value of employer supported childcare?
This article is brought to you by Accor Childcare Vouchers.Childcare Vouchers are the most popular form of employer supported childcare in the UK, and with a tax and NI exemption of up to £55 per week, parents can save up to £1,195 per year on the cost of their childcare.But ...
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HM Revenue & Customs launches childcare vouchers
This article is brought to you by Accor Childcare Vouchers.HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) has launched a scheme to provide its 100,000 staff across the UK with Accor Services Childcare Vouchers.Employees have a choice of either paper or electronic vouchers and access to a helpline for emergency childcare in case ...
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Mitie launches childcare vouchers
Facilities, engineering and property services provider Mitie has launched a childcare voucher scheme for its 40,000 employees.The paper and electronic vouchers, which are offered through a salary sacrifice arrangement and are provided by Accor, are intended to give staff with children benefits suited to their needs..Paul McGuiness, group HR manager, ...
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Case Studies
PricewaterhouseCoopers has introduced a pilot emergency childcare system
Professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers introduced a pilot emergency childcare scheme for staff in five of its offices in May 2006. The pilot, which is running for an initial 12-month period, provides staff in London, Birmingham and the East Midlands, Manchester and Edinburgh with access to five free days of emergency ...
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Emergency childcare: the options
Emergency childcare can have tangible benefits for both employers and staff, explains Vicki TaylorArticle in fullEmergency childcare is one of those perks where the advantages are just as tangible for employers, if not more so, than for employees.The services that can be offered to staff range from providing childcare at ...
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Charteris launches childcare vouchers
Charteris has launched a childcare voucher scheme this month following employee requests for the perk.The professional services firm has also added details about the benefit to its online platform, which was launched last October.The company is now assessing the options available to it around flexible and voluntary benefits schemes.Barry Hoffman, ...
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Olswang offers staff care support
Law firm Olswang introduced a subsidised emergency eldercare and childcare service last month.Employees who have registered for the service are able to request an emergency nanny, childminder or place at a local nursery either online or by phone at any time until the morning the emergency care is required.Employees who ...
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HM Revenue pilots childcare calculator
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is piloting an online calculator to help employees ascertain if they will be better off financially by taking child tax credits, or childcare vouchers offered by their employer. Its calculations are based on how many children employees have parental responsibilities for, how many hours they ...
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The backlash to benefits for working parents
This article is brought to you by Accor Childcare Vouchers.Lynne Currer, product manager - Childcare Vouchers at Accor Services considers the growing resentment towards family-specific benefits and advises employers on managing the backlashThe cost of a typical full-time nursery place in England has increased by more than 27 per cent ...
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Acas settles on childcare vouchers
Acas, the organisation that aims to prevent and resolve workplace disputes, has launched childcare vouchers and a bikes-for-work scheme in response to staff requests. Gill Cook, reward manager, said it expects a take up of between 2%-3% for the childcare voucher scheme.
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Where's the sacrifice if everybody wins?
Childcare vouchers and bikes for work are standard benefits offered through salary sacrifice, but there are plenty more perks that deliver tax and NI savings, says Jamin RobertsonArticle in fullFor employers operating in a tight labour market, the thought of asking employees to take a pay cut might be considered ...
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Case Studies
John Lewis Partnership offers childcare to staff
The John Lewis Partnership (JLP) has offered childcare vouchers since April 2005. It has recently added a feedback facility for the scheme to its intranet for John Lewis and Waitrose staff.Gill Bowler, implementation manager of benefits projects at the partnership, says the feedback forum has revealed that employees are generally ...
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Childcare on offer at Cancer Research UK
Cancer Research UK tested childcare vouchers on a pilot group of 12 staff in April 2005 after the tax and national insurance exemption on vouchers up to £50 a week was introduced. The tax-exempt limit has since been raised to £55 and the charity now offers the benefit to all ...
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Do childcare vouchers work for all parents?
Fuelled by expemptions within the 2004 Budget and a furhter lifting of the cap up to £55 a week, Jamin Robertson asks if childcare vouchers are having growing pains.Article in fullTwo years ago the childcare voucher market was buzzing as organisations clamoured to take advantage of new tax efficiencies that ...
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Case Studies
Qinetiq chooses own providers in outsourced scheme
Case study: QinetiqWhen Qinetiq, the defence technology and security company, revamped its benefits package in November 2004 it added home computers, childcare vouchers and bicycles on a salary sacrifice basis.Delivering the best possible scheme for its 9,500 UK-based employees meant looking carefully at potential suppliers. Qinetiq's group head of reward ...
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Premier Paper Group launches childcare vouchers
The Premier Paper Group has launched childcare vouchers after receiving numerous requests from employees. Nav Matharu, HR manager at the paper merchant, said the company launched the benefit by including information about it in employees' August payslips ready for them to take it up from September.She added that the company's ...
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Working parents struggling with work-life balance
A growing number of employers now offer flexible working arrangements, however, the lack of any real legislative power means that many working mothers are still experiencing lesser pay, training and career prospects if they work part-time.According to Combining work and family life:removing the barriers to women's progression. Experience from the ...
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Case Studies
BSkyB opts for outsourced admin
Case study: BSkyBBSkyB launched its salary sacrifice scheme, Sky Choices, in March 2005. It offers 11,000 employees a home computing scheme, bicycles and childcare vouchers.Dev Raval, group head of reward, started by considering two options - a one-stop shop provider that could perform the admin for the whole scheme and ...
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Legal & General introduce childcare vouchers
Legal & General Group introduced a childcare voucher scheme this month following feedback from Legal & General Group's internal staff survey and discussions with the trade union Amicus. The scheme, aims to add value to the organisation's overall benefit voucs package and support its other family-friendly initiatives. A spokeswoman for ...
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Working families get support with the Work & Families Act
Given the high profile of new age discrimination laws, the most significant legislation in support of working families for almost a decade is somehow failing to register, says Amanda WilkinsonCase study: BTArticle in fullOver the last few months, the legislative spotlight for HR and benefits practitioners has been focused on ...