All Benefits for carers articles – Page 91
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Perks, including childcare, launched at Notts CC
Nottingham City Council is to relaunch its benefits package in a bid to make staff feel valued and to recruit more employees from the local area.The scheme, which will roll out in October, is intended to improve the image of the council as an employer and boost satisfaction among existing ...
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Insurer saves worker parents £2K
The Funding Corporation has introduced childcare vouchers that it hopes will save families with two working parents up to £2,000 a year. The car and motorbike insurer introduced the salary sacrifice scheme with the help of childcare provider Busy Bees to sit alongside its other perks that include a day ...
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Childcare at Wragge law firm
National law firm Wragge has introduced childcare vouchers to help its high-bracket tax payers. Benefits officer Catherine Potter said the firm expects considerable demand among its 40% taxpayers attracted by annual national insurance and tax savings of up to £1,066 under April's change in legislation."There's been so much focus about ...
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Childcare plan proves turn off to care staff
Care home provider Lifestyle Care has encountered problems with its pilot childcare voucher plan due to lack of staff interest.The company piloted the scheme on 150 workers for one year, but only one employee took up the offer.Finance director Makbul Jaffer said: "It's like the stakeholder pension; nobody seems to ...
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Home Office revamps perks
The Home Office has introduced a new childcare plan after staff voiced concerns that previous arrangements were unfair.Last month, it brought in childcare vouchers for all core Home Office employees. It is also piloting the scheme in the Prison Service and the Immigration and Nationality Directorate.John Marsh, group HR director ...
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Buyer's guide to childcare vouchers
Recent tax breaks have seen a boom in business for voucher providers, with newly entitled higher income earners scrambling to make use of tax breaks, says Jamin RobertsonArticle in fullChildcare voucher schemes have been the big mover of recent times, as recently introduced tax breaks have had employers queuing up ...
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Penguin launches childcare vouchers
The Penguin Group is to introduce childcare vouchers after the government's new tax break policy prompted a rise in staff demand. The publishing company will implement a scheme in July at the same time that it repeats its summertime flexible hours policy. Susan Taylor, HR director at Penguin, said the ...
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Citigroup launches childcare vouchers
Citigroup has established a childcare voucher scheme hoping to attract 10% of its 11,000 UK workforce.Damien Teisseire, European head of pensions and benefits at the global financial services group, said that he hoped such a perk would be of real value to staff.The voucher scheme was rolled out in April ...
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Law firm sees 4.5% take childcare vouchers
Dundas & Wilson has seen 4.5% of its 500 staff take up its new childcare voucher scheme, introduced last month. Bill Mitchell, HR director at the Scottish law firm, said: "The vouchers are in line with our policy relating to flexible working. It's a bit of a clich» but we ...
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HSBC expands childcare in nursery deal
The Story HSBC has expanded its family-friendly policies to offer all employees nursery care and childcare vouchers for children up to 16. The high street bank has increased the number of workplace nurseries it provides from 80 to around 170 and is offering all 57,000 employees, including staff at online ...
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Opinion
Guest Opinion: Serco Metrolink
When it comes to striking a deal with unions, benefits often take a backseat to pay. Yet perks can prove to be a powerful bargaining tool.At Serco Metrolink, we have a single union agreement and do all of our negotiations through the Transport and General Workers’ Union (T&G). In recent ...
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John Lewis Partnership launches pay sensitive perks
The John Lewis Partnership has launched a home computing scheme and childcare vouchers despite the majority of its staff being low paid. Adam Brooke, manager, benefits strategy at the Partnership, which has over 63,000 staff, admitted that the scheme was a challenge to introduce."Because it's so new for the Partnership, ...
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Compass cooks up perks
Compass has launched a home computing scheme and a tax-free bike plan alongside its salary sacrifice childcare voucher package. The catering company decided to introduce all three benefits at the same time so staff could have one contact point and could see how the sacrifice on the benefits combined would ...
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HR speeds up voucher plans
Benefits bosses are hurriedly introducing childcare voucher schemes to take advantage of tax relief legislation. Employers such as Compass, Barclays, Eli Lilly and Herefordshire Council are all launching or re-launching schemes before April 5 to ensure staff get maximum discounts.June Woodhouse, HR director at Compass, which has just launched a ...
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The cost of childcare for parents continues to soar beyond the rate of inflation
A nursery place for a child under two now costs an average of £141 a week, up from £134 last year. The typical charge for children over two years is £132 a week, a 7.3% rise on £123 last year. For a copy of the Daycare Trust’s annual survey on ...
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Event news - New changes in childcare vouchers
From April 2005, the provision of childcare vouchers will be tax free up to £50 a week. Therefore, the session 'Using childcare vouchers as a tax efficient and highly valued benefit' will be timely for organisations looking to take advantage of this. Employers looking to investigate will be able to ...
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Salary sacrifice hampers child voucher progress
A study by childcare provider Sodexho Pass shows that four-out-of-ten employers think the salary sacrificing effects on pensions and life benefits act as an active deterrent to introducing childcare vouchers. The time and effort it takes to set up a scheme is the second most common complaint, with 30% of ...
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Northcliffe Newspapers launches childcare vouchers
Northcliffe Newspapers is launching a childcare scheme to encourage mothers to return to work after maternity leave. The regional newspaper publisher estimates that 300 of its 9,000 employees will buy childcare vouchers through salary sacrifice. Michael French, head of employment affairs, said: "If the scheme makes childcare more helpful and ...
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Opinion
Guest Opinion: The provision of childcare vouchers
The decision to provide employee childcare vouchers would appear to be a no-brainer especially with the government allowing scheme members National Insurance contribution reductions against the cost of childcare provision. Potentially, offering vouchers is an all-round win, because as an employer we can tap into that pool of parents who ...
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Opinion
Guest Opinion: Duncan Brown, CIPD
Duncan Brown, assistant director general of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), says that government action is way behind even the most commonplace examples of HR best practiceOn Monday, one of our new parents at the CIPD came to work with bagged eyes and the telltale stain of ...