All Case studies articles – Page 54
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Case StudiesMcCarthy and Stone uses financial education to boost pension take-up
The revamp was driven by the fact that the group personal pension (GPP) scheme the employer had offered since the 1990s had not changed much since it was implemented. Its new scheme is a self-invested personal pension (Sipp) supplied by Hargreaves Lansdown as part of its Corporate Vantage platform, a ...
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Case StudiesWithers ensures it offers staff engaging benefits package
The organisation reported a 7% decline in net profit, down from £24.2 million in 2011/12 to £22.5 million in 2012/13, based on revenue of £117.8 million. Profits per equity partner also fell, from £386,000 to £370,000, over the same period, according to its financial results for 2012/13, published in July ...
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Case StudiesKaren Harrison, head cashier, values Withers’ employee benefits package
She used the cover for an operation to remove a cyst from her brain which was detected four years ago. “If I’d gone down the NHS route, it would have taken quite a while to get the surgery done, especially having just had a newborn baby, so it was really ...
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Case StudiesWolseley UK builds an engaging benefits offer
Now the construction and building products distributor, a subsidiary of global organisation Wolseley, is focused on its corporate strategy, including its principles, its employees, and transforming the business to stay ahead of the competition.Neil McCawley, head of reward, benefits and policy at Wolseley UK, says: “People are one of our ...
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Case StudiesLeicester City Council’s car salary sacrifice scheme offers cost-effective benefit
The scheme, operated by Tusker, includes motor insurance, servicing and maintenance, roadside assistance, tyres and glass, plus protection against redundancy, resignation and maternity leave .Before implementing the scheme, the organisation wanted to reduce the cost of its employee benefits, having previously offered a central user allowance for employees to travel ...
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Case StudiesLloyd’s Register to centralise global mobility service
Selina Jones-May, head of global mobility at Lloyd’s Register, started the process in April 2013 and has been process-mapping all of the global mobility function.An integral part of the process was to obtain approval from the organisation’s executive committee by submitting a robust business case, which included models of the ...
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Case StudiesThe employee benefits offered by law firm Withers to its staff
The law firm reviewed its benefits and providers and conducted a staff survey in 2013 to ensure staff would be engaged and enthused by the offering.PensionA group personal pension in which Withers matches employee contributions up to 5%HealthcareLife assurance is employer-funded and available at four-times salary, up to £750,000, which ...
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Case StudiesEast Coast Mainline: The benefits
PensionsA defined benefit scheme, open to new entrants. Employees contribute 11.9% of pensionable pay and the organisation contributes 17.85%.Life assurance is available at four-times salary as part of the pension.A trust-based defined contribution scheme is available for staff who have drawn down their DB pension but continue to work for ...
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Case StudiesDavid Thorpe discusses his favourite staff benefits at East Coast Mainline
“I started on a casual basis for six months doing luggage assistance, then I applied for a full-time permanent role as a station customer services assistant, despatching trains at Peterborough,” he says.Thorpe’s favourite benefit is the bikes-for-work scheme, which is available via a salary sacrifice arrangement through the organisation’s voluntary ...
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Case StudiesStaff wellbeing underpins building design at Great Ormond Street Hospital
The building, which opened in 2012, has seven floors, one of which is the staff restaurant, which has wall-to-ceiling glazed windows and runs along the entire length of the building.Unlike the traditional hospital set-up, there is a staff room away from the ward area, with views over Coram’s Fields, an ...
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Case StudiesNicolas Tye Architects supports staff with environmentally-friendly office
The glass box-shaped building’s stone flooring and the employer’s footwear-free office policy (staff wear slippers) helps to minimise allergies.The office optimises its air quality with a mechanical cooling system, which provides comfort cooling in summer and pre-heats cool air coming from outside in the winter. The air is filtered, providing ...
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Case StudiesEast Coast Mainline keeps reward on track
It is in the process of being re-franchised but will have to wait until October to learn which bidder from a shortlist of interested parties has succeeded. The re-franchising process will be completed in February 2015.John Hayhurst, head of HR at East Coast Mainline, aims to keep the organisation’s benefits ...
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Case StudiesAtkins engineers a family-friendly environment for staff
Benefits offered by Atkins that are popular among working families include flexible working, extra holiday entitlement, childcare vouchers and informal employee assistance programmes, such as networks for working families to interact with each another. The organisation won Workingmums.co.uk’s Innovation in Flexible Working Award in December 2013, and was named top ...
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Case StudiesUnited Response took extra time to communicate auto-enrolment message
Many of the organisation’s 3,500 employees were already in its stakeholder pension scheme, but a further 1,451 were auto-enrolled on 1 October, postponed from its staging date in July 2013.Diane Lightfoot, director of communications and fundraising at United Response, says: “We did our first briefing in April. We knew we ...
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Case StudiesLow-cost benefits help Hertfordshire County Council balance budget
Like many public-sector employers, the council has had to work with limited resources after a number of budget cuts in recent years.This is against the backdrop of an ageing and increasing population in the county with complex needs, which are putting extra demands on the council’s services.Emily Austin, HR pay ...
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Case StudiesCafcass uses health cash plan to cut costs
Daryl Maitland, senior HR business partner at the organisation, says: “Initially, we had a look at what we were spending on the wellbeing of our staff and a couple of things we noticed were a little worrying, or things we could improve on.”For example, Cafcass was processing employees’ eye tests ...
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Case StudiesMarriott Hotels considered pension fund choice in auto-enrolment decisions
Its staging date was April 2013, but it postponed auto-enrolling its workforce until 1 July 2013 with the help of its adviser, Berkeley Burke, which also manages the organisation’s private medical insurance and group life assurance .Sarah Newsome, manager, employment law/compensation and benefits, Marriott Europe at Marriott Hotels, says: “Fund ...
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City and Guilds studies flex communications
The vocational qualifications provider has three enrolment windows each year; the main one is in November, with the other two in March and July. Staff feedback has shown City and Guilds that, at present, employees are interested in tangible benefits that give an immediate value, so the organisation has focused ...
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Towry creates default fund to help staff spread investment risk
The organisation has mirrored the risk profile-based investment approach that it offers to private clients when looking at retirement planning for its own staff. The strategy is a mix of different asset classes.The lifestyle investment strategy Towry created is a blend of a growth-based and a managed approach, a bond ...
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GlaxoSmithKline has formula to protect older employees’ health
Doctor Timothy Wighton, director of global disease prevention and health promotion at GSK, says: “It is the brainchild of several people within GSK who came together and said: ‘Are we doing enough for our employees, no matter what level they are, no matter what age they are and no matter ...