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Flex focuses BNP Paribas employees' minds at Christmas
BNP Paribas uses its annual flexible benefits enrolment window in early December to keep employees engaged over the Christmas period, rather than creating a specific incentives package.Sarah Oxford, head of compensation, benefits and international mobility at the French-headquartered bank, says taking a more general approach to the festive season and ...
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Case study: Marks and Spencer buys into master trust
Marks and Spencer appointed Legal and General to run a master trust arrangement which was set up in August last year to help the retailer comply with auto-enrolment.Finding a default fund to work across a workforce of 75,000 was a challenge, but Julie Parker-Welch, reward manager, pensions at M&S, is ...
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Carlsberg increases flex take-up
Carlsberg has offered around 10 benefits through its flexible benefits scheme since it was launched five years ago. Julian Daley, reward manager, says: “We have added some benefits and taken some away, but we have always had about that number.”Certain perks, such as a healthcare top-up scheme, have been removed ...
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Case study: CSC switches on second opportunity for flex enrolment
The provision of additional enrolment periods in its flexible benefits scheme has played a key role in raising awareness about pensions and increasing employee engagement for CSC, a global provider of technology-enabled solutions and services.The scheme year of the organisation, which employs about 7,500 people in the UK, runs from ...
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Case study: Svitzer steers staff to investments
International towage and salvage company Svitzer implemented a corporate platform from Hargreaves Lansdown in July 2011 after closing its defined benefit (DB) pension scheme.Its primary aim was to replace the myriad trust and contract-based pension schemes it had inherited after a number of acquisitions with one defined contribution (DC) scheme ...
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Ove Arup engineers smooth transition to group personal pension
Ove Arup and Partners International has taken a number of steps to engage and encourage its employees to save for their retirement since closing its defined benefit (DB) pension scheme in 2010, and more recently in the run-up to auto-enrolment, which will begin to be introduced next month.Pension roadshows, run ...
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Group income protection bridged the gap for The Wilson Organisation
Financial services provider The Wilson Organisation has had a group income protection (GIP) scheme, provided by Unum, in place for about 25 years.Group financial director John Steele says it is a legacy policy that was first introduced with the organisation’s defined benefit (DB) pension scheme. “The DB scheme needed to ...
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Case study: Vinci builds childcare voucher take-up
Construction firm Vinci UK launched a communications campaign early this year to refresh its 4,000 employees’ knowledge of its childcare voucher scheme.The campaign, created with Vinci’s provider, Computershare Voucher Services, included benefits roadshows, online slides, posters and material in its maternity- and paternity-leave packages.Campaign content highlighted the variety of childcare ...
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Case study: Sellafield powers up communication on childcare vouchers
Nuclear reprocessing site Sellafield has offered its 9,500 UK employees childcare vouchers for many years, but it continues to refresh its communications to ensure the value of the benefit is fully understood.Common employee questions include: Where can the vouchers be used? What kind of childcare is covered? How much saving ...
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City and Guilds in talks on corporate platform
City and Guilds is in the throes of deciding whether to implement a corporate platform to help it optimise the attractiveness of its benefits package, which includes private medical insurance (PMI), group income protection (GIP), childcare vouchers and a bikes-for-work scheme.Sangeeta Mistry, group reward manager, says: “We offer a really ...
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Allianz ensures awareness of staff wellbeing needs
Allianz manages employee stress through a comprehensive wellbeing programme that was launched in 2007 to engage its staff and boost morale. Some 58 wellbeing champions across the insurer’s 24 UK sites are tasked, on a voluntary basis, to devise events based on the company’s quarterly themes.This year’s themes include improving ...
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FirstGroup up to speed with auto-enrolment hub
Transport operator FirstGroup will ensure its compliance with the reforms by introducing an auto-enrolment hub that will sit between its pension provision, payroll system, reward portal and communication processes.The firm conducted a beauty parade of potential providers in June and planned to make an appointment last month, ahead of its ...
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Case study: Svitzer corporate wrap platform offers savings flexibility
Svitzer UK offers a corporate wrap platform to give its staff flexibility in saving for their future. The wrap, introduced by the marine services firm last year, includes a group self-invested personal pension (Sipp) and an individual savings account (Isa).Staff can invest in a number of ways. For example, those ...
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William Grant and Sons ensures tasty reward package
William Grant and Sons started distilling whisky in 1887, when the first Glenfiddich single malt ran from its stills on Christmas Day. The family-owned business then comprised William Grant and his five sons. Today, the company has more than 1,600 staff across 30 countries, working on six core brands and ...
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FirstGroup staff take fast track to savings
FirstGroup offers its 38,000 staff a range of money-saving perks through a discount scheme it launched with Asperity Employee Benefits in March.The scheme offers discounts on 3,000 products and retailers, as well as cashback.Lisa Proctor, group reward manager at FirstGroup, says: “In these tough economic times, we wanted to help ...
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HarperCollins goes digital in reward and benefits
As the book publishing industry moves into the digitised space, HarperCollins’ director of people, John Athanasiou, is helping to ensure the firm’s benefits, communications and working patterns are aligned with this shift.Athanasiou is well equipped to oversee this change, thanks to seven years at Warner Music UK, latterly as head ...
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B&Q aims to build loyalty
B&Q, part of Kingfisher Group, offers both a sharesave and a Sip to help build long-term staff loyalty. The sharesave scheme was first introduced in 1993, and the Sip in April 2011.Last December, Kingfisher’s three and five-year SAYE schemes matured. Staff in the three-year scheme, which started in 2008, gained ...
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Case study: Isa is extra bonus at Allstate
Allstate is the largest IT employer in Northern Ireland, with more than 1,500 staff, to whom it pays a bonus each year.The company, which provides software development services and business process outsourcing to support its US parent’s global operations, offers a corporate Isa through Legal & General.“We are continually looking ...
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Informa gets the auto-enrolment message straight
Media company Informa spent the start of this year creating a strategy outlining its auto-enrolment objectives to ensure it is fully prepared for the reforms.Informa’s official staging date is June 2013, but it will comply with the legislation in January 2013, when the first salary sacrifice deductions are made for ...
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Case study: BT connects with staff health
As part of its Work Fit programme, BT Group promotes health and wellbeing to its 75,600 UK staff each year, covering topics such as cardiovascular health, diabetes, cancer, smoking, mental health and physical activity.The programme is communicated through BT’s intranet site, weekly emails, employee newsletters, leaflets and roadshows. BT also ...