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Britvic rethinks its earnings caps
The principal aim for soft drinks company Britvic following A-Day has been to preserve members' pension entitlement and position.One way was by allowing all employees who could withdraw more than a 25% tax-free lump sum to continue to do so after A-day.Michael Mountford, head of compensations and benefits, explains: "For ...
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Norton Rose offers a more complex PMI scheme to staff to boost take up
Law firm Norton Rose swapped its private medical insurance scheme to a provider offering additional benefits in June 2006. Although it had no qualms about the service or premiums of its previous insurer, Mandy Campbell, pensions and benefits manager, believes that the additional benefits offered by PruHealth will make the ...
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Body Shop International offers cash for staff to spend on skills and wellbeing
Cosmetics firm Body Shop International offers its UK employees up to £100 a year to spend on learning new skills and activities which help them to stay fit and healthy for work. The company calls this 'Love' money, which stands for Learning is Of Value to Everyone. The cash can ...
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PricewaterhouseCooper harmonises benefits post-merger
Accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) was formed from the merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand in 1998. Carolyn Wilkinson, senior benefits manager at PwC, explains that a year later, it implemented a flexible benefits scheme partly to "align benefits for all staff within the company and recognise the diversity ...
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Toshiba maintains flexible benefits momentum
Toshiba Information Systems UK, which makes PCs, flat screen TVs and mobile phones, introduced a flexible benefits scheme for its 350 sales staff in 2001, at a time when it was hard do recruit IT specialists.Toshiba used an online flex platform from day one. Susan Stevens, head of HR at ...
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Cadbury Trebor Bassett has made staff wellbeing part of its ethos
Employee wellbeing has been a part of Cadbury Trebor Bassett's culture since it was founded back in 1879.In the last year-and-a half, however, it has taken a fresh approach, culminating in its wellbeing programme, Fit for Life. Kate van der Plank, Fit for Life programme manager, says: "(Employee wellbeing has) ...
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Emap takes strategic approach to seasonal celebrations
Emap delegates the organisation of seasonal benefits to individual departments. Stewart Grant, group benefits manager at the company, which publishes titles such as Heat and Zoo, says staff identify strongly with their individual brand.The company is aligned into three operating divisions: consumer media, communications, and radio, in addition to its ...
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Ringwood Brewery offers choice around personal development allowances
The Ringwood Brewery in Hampshire has a PDA policy that allows staff to spend their £500 yearly allowance on almost anything. However, it does impose some restrictions such as only being able to spend up to £250 on gym membership. Office manager, Lin Black, says she hasn't yet turned down ...
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Boots increases levels of communication around merger with Alliance Unichem
High street chemist, Boots, merged with Alliance Unichem in August 2006.Stephen Lehane, director of HR and organisation development at the newly-formed Alliance Boots, explains that communication with all employees was key even though no redundancies were made as a result of the merger. "Human beings' normal behaviour is to be ...
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Consensus offers staff PMI after six months service
London-based recruitment consultancy Consensus automatically provides staff with access to a private medical insurance (PMI) scheme after six months' service. Two years ago, its premium increased sharply. After looking around, managing director Martin Tyrrell, found a cheaper premium with extra health and wellbeing benefits added in. "Most PMI (policies) are ...
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Senior management support has helped City of York Council drive absence down
The City of York Council cites an absence management system and support from senior management as the reasons behind its reduction in sickness absence levels from 13.5 days per employee recorded between 2004 and 2005 to 12.5 days between 2005 and 2006.Stephen Forrest, HR business development manager, explains: "The scheme ...
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AA revamps flexible benefits under new ownership
The Automobile Association (AA) was in the opposite position to PwC when its owner, Centrica, sold the vehicle recovery organisation to two private equity firms in 2004.In its first year of operation, the AA stuck with the status quo and continued with the flexible benefits scheme (and provider) Centrica had ...
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Capgemini offers financial education to employees
IT consultancy Capgemini decided to offer a financial education package to employees after its HR department received numerous requests for help with financial queries, especially about mortgages.Many of the firm's 6,500 employees are based at client sites spread throughout the UK. In order to fit in with their working patterns, ...
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Lloyds TSB tinkers with flex to meet age laws
Case study: Lloyds TSBLloyds TSB is to increase the maximum age at which staff can obtain products offered through its flexible benefits scheme to ensure it complies with age discrimination legislation. Many products offered, including private medical insurance (PMI), health screening, life assurance and critical illness cover, currently have a ...
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Bestinvest critical of delays in group risk implementation
Case Study: BestinvestAs a financial services organisation, intermediary Bestinvest was aware of the importance of allowing adequate time for the implementation of its flexible benefits scheme on 1 January 2006. The design process had therefore commenced five months previously.Most quotes for income protection, which is a core benefit, and critical ...
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AstraZeneca international flex allows for local variance
Case study: AstraZenecaPharmaceutical company AstraZeneca offers flexible benefits plans in a number of the countries in which it has an employee presence including its three main locations: the US, Sweden and the UK.The company has a two-page document that outlines its global compensation and benefits aims, but doesn’t specify exactly ...
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Broadly similar international flex for Vanco
Case study: VancoIn April 2003, virtual network operator Vanco simultaneously introduced its flexible benefits package, V:choice, across eight countries - the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Singapore, the US and Australia. In 2004, this was extended to cover Belgium, France and the Czech Republic,followed by Sweden, Switzerland and Poland at ...
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National Grid Wireless uses in-house know-how to launch flex
Case study: National Grid WirelessWhen National Grid Wireless launched its flexible benefits scheme in December last year, it called on its in-house tax advisers for assistance.Their advice was particularly useful when identifying which benefits were tax-exempt because the flex scheme is based on salary sacrifice arrangements. Bruce Sayers, reward and ...
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Adecco provider relationship underpins admin success
Case study: AdeccoKatie Ivie, head of HR business partnering for recruitment company Adecco,believes a strong relationship with providers is crucial to eliminating unintended costs of flexible benefits schemes.The firm, which introduced a flexible benefits package in June 2004 for its 3,500 staff in the UK, used the increased headcount made ...
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Finnforest UK underpins salary sacrifice with thorough comms
Case study: Finnforest UKWhen timber supplier Finnforest UK introduced a salary sacrifice arrangement for bikes in September 2005, it was aware of the importance of communication.Sue Culverhouse, HR administrator, found that filtering information through line managers was the most effective communication process."Although leaflets were produced, we found that educating management ...