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    Employer profile: Whitbread

    2008-01-01T00:00:01Z

    Leisure firm Whitbread is currently reviewing benefits as part of its aim to harmonise company culture across brands, says David WoodsThe name Whitbread has for many years been synonymous with the brewing industry. Its founder Samuel Whitbread set up the first mass production brewery in Britain more than 250 years ...

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    Coda offers Shariah fund in GPP

    2007-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Coda demonstrates its corporate social responsibility credentials through benefits by matching charity donations from staff and offering them a pension fund that meets their religious needs.It offers staff a Shariah-compliant fund in its group personal pension (GPP) plan. The HSBC Amanah Global Equity Index, Shariah Law Compliant fund does not ...

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    Enviros offers carbon offsetting to staff

    2007-12-03T00:00:00Z

    As an environmental consultancy, Enviros reflects its values in its benefits package.Via its flexible benefits scheme, for example, employees can offset their carbon emissions. The perk enables staff to calculate how much they would need to contribute to offset their carbon emissions. The cost is then deducted from their flexible ...

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    Employer profile: Cancer Research UK

    2007-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Charity Cancer Research UK uses total reward to make the most of what it has to offer in the war for talent, says Amanda WilkinsonWorking for a worthy cause certainly has its appeal. However, charities are unable to rely solely on the desire of people to give something back to ...

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    Cadbury Schweppes moves voluntary benefits online

    2007-12-03T00:00:00Z

    Cadbury Schweppes moved its voluntary benefits scheme online in August. Prior to this, it produced a paper booklet for staff explaining the perks that are available.Sally Tobin, UK employee benefits adviser, says: "We made this change in order to increase the choice for employees, to keep the offers refreshed and ...

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    BT prepares for legal changes around benefits

    2007-12-03T00:00:00Z

    In anticipation of next year's legislative changes, BT's reward team is focused on ensuring the structure of its benefits package is optimised to minimise risk.Jim McInally, HR director, reward and employee relations, explains: "The next area we are looking at is the tax changes in the pre-Budget report. I have ...

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    3D Entertainment Group communicates voluntary benefits

    2007-12-03T00:00:00Z

    3D Entertainment Group 3D Entertainment Group, which operates bar chains such as Jumpin Jaks, Orange House and Chicago Rock Cafe, has to communicate its voluntary benefits plan to a diverse workforce nationwide.Employees register for the online scheme using their personal email addresses. The scheme's provider, Peoplevalue, then sends a monthly ...

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    University of Bolton's staff stay fit with a health and wellbeing initiative

    2007-11-05T16:36:46Z

    The University of Bolton has a pretty fit workforce thanks to a health and wellbeing initiative put together by its HR department and management at its on-site sports centre.The university secured funding from Sport England which has helped it to offer staff a 50% discount on the use of, and ...

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    QVC introduced wellbeing strategy following staff consultation

    2007-11-05T16:34:02Z

    QVC introduced a wellbeing strategy for its 2,100 staff in Merseyside and London following consultation with its employee committee, the QVC Forum, in 2006.Kelly Morgan, head of HR at the shopping channel, says: "Our parent company in the US had been running health and wellbeing programmes for several years and ...

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    Shoosmiths has a successful absence management policy

    2007-11-05T16:33:26Z

    Law firm Shoosmiths has an overall absence management policy in place for its 1,400 employees, which is clearly communicated to all staff.It uses a trigger mechanism so that if employees are off work for up to five days on three or more occasions, they will have a meeting with management ...

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    The Consensus Organisation implemented a healthcare strategy when it launched

    2007-11-05T16:30:46Z

    London-based building and construction industry recruitment company The Consensus Organisation put a healthcare strategy in place when the firm was launched six years ago.Martin Tyrell, managing director, says private medical insurance from Standard Life is at the centre of its strategy and covers all employees. "Part of the reason for ...

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    GNER holds an annual employee awards ceremony

    2007-11-05T14:52:43Z

    GNER bats on firm wicket for peer recognitionTransport company GNER holds an annual awards ceremony to recognise and reward employees' efforts, which includes a peer-nominated category.This year, the event was extended to all employees instead of being restricted to the firm's customer service staff, as in previous years. Various prizes, ...

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    Jackson makes the most of the Sip at Punch Taverns

    2007-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Caroline Jackson, a telesales manager, has worked for Punch Taverns for three-and-a-half years. She explains that being part of its share scheme increases her interest in the organisation's financial wellbeing.Jackson invests the maximum £125 a month from her salary into the share incentive plan (Sip). After the company has matched ...

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    Employer profile: Punch Taverns

    2007-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Acquisitive pub chain Punch Taverns has worked hard to integrate differing benefits offerings, says Kate DonovanPunch Taverns has come a long way in a relatively short space of time, expanding through an almost continuous series of acquisitions since it was established in 1997 with 1,399 pubs bought from Bass. In ...

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    Morgan Stanley responds to employee requests

    2007-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Morgan Stanley uses its benefits package to gain a competitive edge, and has responded to employee requests for more choice and family-friendly policies.During the 13 years, Dawn Nicholson, managing director of HR for EMEA at Morgan Stanley, has worked in investment banking, she has seen a increase in the number ...

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    Buckinghamshire County Council struggled to find providers to match its needs

    2007-11-05T00:00:00Z

    When Buckinghamshire County Council developed an idea for a new recognition-based employee benefit for its staff, it found that providers were not willing to build a new product to suit its needs.Gillian Hibberd, corporate director (people and policy), explains: "None of the providers have been able to come up with ...

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    Case study: Ashton Morton

    2007-11-05T00:00:00Z

    When law firm Ashton Morton Slack rebranded in May 2005, it decided to look at introducing a new package of flexible benefits as part of a wider drive to help it improve staff performance, recruitment and retention.With a mixed culture of young staff, families and older workers it wanted to ...

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    BT offers access to sharesave and share incentive plans

    2007-11-05T00:00:00Z

    BT offers employees access to both sharesave and share incentive plans (Sips), with free share allocations that are tightly linked to company performance - based on customer satisfaction and earnings per share.Francis O'Mahony, shareholder services manager, explains: "We want to enable employees to build up a stake in the company ...

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    BHP Billiton's global share scheme has has a 30% take-up

    2007-11-05T00:00:00Z

    Global shares at BHP BillitonThe scheme, which offers a free share for every share purchased as long as the stock is held for three years, has so far achieved a 30% take up. When launching the plan, the mining company wanted a scheme that would encourage staff engagement and align ...

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    Rok Construction plans flexible benefits to harmonise perks

    2007-10-01T16:33:58Z

    Construction company Rok is keen to implement a flexible benefits scheme in order to harmonise perks across the group following a spate of acquisitions. In a step in this direction, it asked four firms to tender to run a feasibility study into the suitability of launching a scheme, before settling ...