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  • severn trent water
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    The benefits offered by Severn Trent Water

    2019-03-25T16:00:53Z

    The benefits offered by Severn Trent Water:Pension, protection and payA defined contribution (DC) pension scheme for all employees, offering 2:1 matching contributions and a maximum 15% employer contribution.Group income protection, available for all staff on an employer-funded basis. This operates on a phased reduction model: once an employee's sick pay ...

  • Sunrise senior living
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    The benefits offered by Sunrise Senior Living

    2019-02-25T16:00:47Z

    The benefits offered by Sunrise Senior Living: Pension, protection and payA defined contribution (DC) pension scheme for all employees, delivered through a master trust. Contribution levels vary depending on seniority.Income protection is available for salaried employees on an employer-funded basis. This pays up to 70% of their basic salary for ...

  • mundipharma
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    Mundipharma updates group risk benefits to increase employee choice and flexibility

    2019-01-08T06:00:40Z

    Pharmaceutical organisation Mundipharma updated its group risk benefits in April 2016, in order to afford its 1,000 employees more flexibility around their coverage while mitigating increasing costs.Mundipharma provides two group risk benefits: group life insurance and group income protection. Both schemes were redesigned when the organisation introduced flexible benefits in ...

  • Equifax
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    The benefits offered by Equifax

    2018-11-12T16:20:39Z

    The benefits offered by Equifax:Pension and group riskDefined contribution, salary sacrifice pension scheme for all employees. From April 2019, those contributing 3% into their pension direct from salary will receive a 5% contribution from Equifax; if employees contribute 4%, Equifax will contribute 6% and if they contribute 5%, it will ...

  • Munich Re UK Services
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    Munich Re UK Services offers a number of core group risk benefits

    2018-05-02T16:00:59Z

    Munich Re UK Services is a global reinsurer which covers life reinsurance, non-life reinsurance and global risk. The group’s headquarters are in Munich, Germany, and the organisation has more than 43,420 employees.Munich Re UK Services offers a number of core group risk benefits including: group life, private health insurance, private ...

  • Assurant
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    Assurant offers healthcare support as part of mental wellbeing strategy

    2018-04-30T16:04:59Z

    Assurant is a global provider of risk management solutions, with 15,000 employees. Across Europe, Assurant has 1,300 employees, of which 1,100 are based in the UK. The organisation’s mental wellbeing strategy ensures that its employees have prompt access to healthcare and support and, importantly, is woven within its overall employee ...

  • Jeremy Benn Associates
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    Jeremy Benn Associates offers group risk benefits to support staff health

    2018-04-27T15:58:15Z

    Looking after the health and wellbeing of its 600 employees is a key focus for Jeremy Benn Associates, a firm of consulting civil engineers and scientists, focusing on flood risk management.Charlotte Parker, HR manager, explains: “One of the benefits we provide our staff is group income protection [provided by] Canada ...

  • BNP Paribas UK
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    BNP Paribas allows employees to customise group risk provision

    2017-11-14T06:00:51Z

    Financial services organisation BNP Paribas offers its employees a comprehensive array of group risk products.All the bank’s UK staff get life insurance and the vast majority (80%) receive group income protection, with the exact terms of the cover varying, depending on their preferences and which of the 12 BNP Paribas ...

  • Oracle
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    Oracle proactively supports its employees’ wellbeing with line manager support service

    2017-11-13T06:00:32Z

    Technology organisation Oracle offers group income protection as a core employee benefit. In 2016, it introduced a dedicated service, branded Swift and provided by Unum, which enables line managers to support the wellbeing of employees.Michelle Bradshaw, compensation and benefits director, explains: “Line managers are often the first point of contact ...

  • BDO UK
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    The benefits offered by BDO UK

    2017-07-31T15:59:01Z

    The workplace benefits offered by BDO UK include:Pension and group riskGroup personal pension plan (GPP) with a matched contribution structure of 1% for all employees. If the scheme is joined voluntarily, an age-related matching contribution structure is used, ranging from a 2% employer contribution for employees under 25-years-old to a ...

  • Holiday-Extras
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    The benefits offered by Holiday Extras

    2017-04-03T13:55:39Z

    The workplace benefits on offer at Holiday Extras include:Pension:Group personal pension (GPP) plan, with 3% employee contribution. Employer contributes 3% for the majority of staff and 11% for directors and associate directors. Employees can contribute via salary sacrifice. All employees are eligible after they have passed probation, but must opt ...

  • Metro-Bank
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    The benefits offered by Metro Bank

    2017-03-06T10:01:52Z

    The workplace benefits on offer at Metro Bank include:Pension and group riskGroup personal pension plan. Contribution levels are set according to seniority, starting at 3% employee contribution and 6% employer contribution, then rising to 4% and 8%, with a maximum 5% employee and 10% employer contribution.Life assurance.Healthcare and wellbeingPrivate medical ...

  • norton-rose-fulbright
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    The benefits offered by Norton Rose Fulbright

    2017-01-09T13:13:25Z

    The workplace benefits on offer at Norton Rose Fulbright include:PensionGroup personal pension for all employees, with a 1% employer and 1% employee contribution.The employer offers matching contributions up to a 5% employee contribution.The organisation auto-enrolled in 2013, and auto-re-enrolled in November 2016.Group riskGroup income protection, employer paid.Life assurance, employer paid.Healthcare ...

  • Oracle
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    Oracle introduces rehabilitation helpline for managers

    2016-11-11T12:40:38Z

    Supporting the health and wellbeing of its UK employees is important to technology organisation Oracle. To help achieve this, in November 2015, it introduced a vocational rehabilitation helpline, Swift, for managers in collaboration with Unum, alongside its existing portfolio of healthcare and wellbeing benefits.This acts like a triage service, says ...

  • goodman-masson-2
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    The benefits on offer at Goodman Masson

    2016-11-02T16:07:51Z

    The workplace benefits on offer at Goodman Masson include:PensionStakeholder pension with a 1% employer and 1% employee contribution.Goodman Masson went through auto-enrolment in 2014.Group riskGroup income protection, employer-paid for some employees.Critical illness insurance, employer-paid for some employees.Healthcare and wellbeingPrivate medical insurance, voluntary basis, employee-paid.Eyecare vouchers, employer-paid for all employees.Personal accident ...

  • Countrywide Group
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    The benefits offered by Countrywide Group

    2016-08-31T13:27:12Z

    PensionGroup stakeholder pension scheme for 5,000 managers.Auto-enrolment pension scheme provided by the National Employment Savings Trust (Nest) for the remaining 7,000 employees, with contribution levels at 1% for employer and 1% for staff.Healthcare and wellbeingLife assurance, employer-paid for all staff at four-times salary for management, and at two-times salary for ...

  • Countrywide Group
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    Countrywide aligns benefits and reward to help boost growth

    2016-08-31T11:15:53Z

    Countrywide Group, the UK’s largest property services group, began the task of building a reward function in September 2014, when it drafted in Neil Goodwin, head of reward.He joined on the brink of a group-wide overhaul at the FTSE 250-listed group, which until then had just an operational human resource ...

  • Samsung
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    Samsung offers group risk benefits in line with corporate culture

    2016-07-18T12:10:52Z

    Samsung offers its workforce group income protection (GIP) and life insurance in line with its paternalistic corporate culture.Jo Bean, head of reward, UK and Ireland at Samsung, says: “We’re quite a paternalistic [employer], so we’ve always offered [GIP] as a core benefit. I particularly like the fact that our [policy] ...

  • Oracle
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    Oracle uses group risk data to inform wellbeing strategy

    2016-05-24T15:48:17Z

    At technology firm Oracle, the use of data is key to enhancing group risk provision for the organisation and boosting the benefits and workplace wellbeing strategy for its UK employees.Michelle Bradshaw, compensation and benefits director UK, Ireland and Israel, says: “The data that can be drawn from things [such as] ...

  • Bibby financial services office
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    Bibby Financial Services bolsters flexible benefits to boost retention

    2015-03-30T00:00:00Z

    But she believes that there is room for improvement, despite beating the exceedingly high 98% target she set herself for 2015. To put this into context, the average flex take-up rate among the financial services industry employer clients of Bibby’s flex consultant, Thomsons Online Benefits, is just 69%.This is because ...