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Case StudiesUniversity of Reading launches salary sacrifice car scheme
The University of Reading launched a salary sacrifice car leasing scheme in June to help improve its employee benefits package.The university decided on a leasing arrangement, underpinned by contract hire, because of its low cost and the ability to offer employees a fully maintained car.Claire Eckett, HR manager, rewards and ...
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Case StudiesDixons Carphone looks to harmonise benefits
Both organisations operate in the retail environment, with brands that include Currys, Carphone Warehouse, Dixons Travel and PC World, but the two entities each have their own benefits structures.Toria McCahill, group reward manager at Dixons Retail at the time of the merger and now head of UK reward at Dentsu ...
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Case StudiesLSL Property overhauled benefits with flex
LSL Property Services launched an online flexible benefits scheme for its 5,000-strong workforce after identifying a need to overhaul its benefits package. The property group, which owns estate agency brands Reeds Rains and Your Move, launched the programme after staff focus groups highlighted the need to offer more choice.Nearly two-thirds ...
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Case study: administration — managing group life schemes
The company is split into numerous distinct divisions, and there are great issues within the company with regard to sharing knowledge of salaries within other divisions. Some divisions are also notoriously slow at processing payments, and there was a major concern that should certain divisions not pay premiums when due, ...
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Case study: administration — implementing a management log
Accuracy, timeliness of data and audit tracking were just a few of a number of risks that were exposed due to the lack of the log. The number of employee queries generated by the issue of P11d statements was highlighted as an additional concern by Johnson Fleming.Johnson Fleming implemented a ...
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Case study: auto-enrolment project management — House of Fraser
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Case StudiesBibby Financial Services tailors flex communications
The organisation over-communicated the launch by sending out messages to staff and repeated emails reminding them that the deadline to sign up to the flexible benefits scheme was looming, despite a number having already done so.Following employee feedback, Bibby sent out targeted communications in 2013 and 2014 using a variety ...
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Case StudiesAllianz helps staff measure diabetes risk
Earlier this year, Allianz introduced blood checks to help its employees ascertain their risk of developing diabetes.The checks are part of the insurer’s integrated health and wellbeing strategy, which includes a rolling education programme to raise awareness about key health issues.Quarterly themes the organisation is focusing on this year include: ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by British Sugar
PensionTrust-based defined contribution scheme, with employer-matched contributions up to a maximum of 10%.From February 2013, all non-pension members are being auto-enrolled at contribution levels of 4% for employee and employer.Legacy defined benefit pension schemes.HealthcareEmployer-paid private medical insurance (PMI) scheme available for senior and middle managers, which make up about 50% ...
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Case StudiesBlackRock focuses on staff financial wellbeing
This included group income protection, life assurance and accidental death cover, available to all staff as core benefits up to a certain level. Employees can choose to flex their life cover up to a higher level or to include their partner’s life through the flexible benefits scheme. Critical illness insurance ...
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VideoBritish Sugar focuses on total reward
“Pay is very important and it has to be on an acceptable level, but there are so many other things that are also important to people,” says Verhoek. “I always look at total reward in four sections: variable pay, the benefits, learning and development opportunities, and what we offer as ...
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University of Lincoln invests in relationships with benefits providers
The University of Lincoln invests in building sustainable relationships with its benefits providers.Ian Hodson, reward and benefits manager at the University of Lincoln, has initiated a conversation with the organisation’s childcare voucher provider, Computershare, about its future business strategy.This is part of his efforts to understand the possible impact of ...
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Case StudiesAsda makes savings with company car scheme
The retailer has more than 150,000 staff and introducing the scheme, provided by Zenith, has helped the organisation and its employees to save on car running costs.To date, Asda has saved about £6,000 per company car compared to the cost of providing a cash allowance. Savings are made on fuel, ...
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EY tackles staff burnout with new wellbeing initiative
Its latest initiative, Health EY, which was launched in February 2014, has a strong focus on mental wellbeing, which it believes is the biggest cause for concern within the organisation.Health EY includes the introduction of mental health first-aiders across the organisation. These are employees that will be trained to act ...
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E.On uses games to drive up pensions membership
For energy firm E.On, the use of gamification was about getting as many employees as possible engaged in the auto-enrolment process after it decided to auto-enrol all employees, not just the statutory minimum.The organisation utilised two stages of gamification at two different times of the process as its plan was ...
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Telefonica makes recognition plan more social
Telefonica launched a new online recognition programme for its UK staff in October 2013. The plan, Recognise_D, is a web app that employees can access via smartphones, tablets and laptops.The organisation, known under the brand O2 in the UK, previously had an online recognition programme, but this was a static, ...
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Wates Group values benefit suitability over return on investment
Wates Group has yet to decide how it will monitor the return on investment (ROI) of the workplace health kiosks it is introducing this year.But Melisa Hanratty, HR programme manager at Wates Group, says ROI is not the programme’s focus. “It is less about money and more about getting something ...
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Case StudiesSky uses benefits to keep employees connected
Its products, such as Sky 3D and Sky Talk, also help its employees to stay connected to the Sky experience, which is at the heart of its benefits package.Tom Gardner, reward and employment tax manager at Sky, says: “It is absolutely imperative that our employees are totally up to speed ...
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Case StudiesSky's John Whitaker sees engagement rise with iPads
Before that, he was senior benefits consultant for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at global information company IHS, a role that included the management of benefits scheme design, supplier management and benefits harmonisation after acquisitions.Before taking an in-house role at IHS in April 2012, Whitaker was US project manager ...
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Finmeccanica takes charge of pensions governance
Defence organisation Finmeccanica’s FuturePlanner pension scheme, which was set up in 2007, has 2,500 members, with administration provided by Aon Hewitt and investment services provided by P-Solve on a fiduciary basis through Skandia as the investment platform.The scheme currently has five trustees, two of whom are nominated by members through ...