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    BT believes in flexible work

    2006-12-04T11:21:48Z

    Case study: BTTelecommunications firm BT is a great believer in flexible working arrangements, with around 12,000 of its staff working from home and over 10,000 dividing their time between their home and the office.Dave Wilson, head of employment policy at BT, strongly believes that employees are empowered via this flexible ...

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    British American Tobacco offers flexible benefits through salary sacrifice

    2006-12-04T11:11:44Z

    Case study: British American TobaccoBritish American Tobacco (BAT) operates its flexible benefits scheme, Free2, through salary sacrifice. While holiday trading is the most popular benefit on offer, with about 10% of participants buying extra days and another 10% choosing to sell entitlement, the perks package also includes a wine club ...

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    Employer Profile: McDonald's

    2006-12-04T00:00:00Z

    Article in fullLove it or hate it, there is no ignoring the McDonald’s brand. Since the foundations for the McDonald’s Corporation were laid in the US in 1948, more than 28,000 restaurants have been opened worldwide, of which at least 1,000 are in the UK.In recent years, however, the fast-food ...

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    BT favours flexbile working

    2006-12-04T00:00:00Z

    Telecommunications firm BT is a great believer in flexible working arrangements, with around 12,000 of its staff working from home and over 10,000 dividing their time between their home and the office. Dave Wilson, head of employment policy at BT, strongly believes that employees are empowered via this flexible approach ...

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    Asda keeps staff in the loop over shares

    2006-12-04T00:00:00Z

    Asda's sharesave scheme is one of its employees' most valued benefits. For this reason, Mike Hazelgrave, reward manager, believes it is vital that nothing detracts from this.Staff are warned, for example, that share prices can go down as well as up, but this is done in a way that won't ...

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    Coda replaces pension scheme with salary sacrifice group personal pension plan

    2006-12-01T00:00:01Z

    Coda, the business software company, replaced its three trustee-based pension schemes with a salary sacrifice group personal pension plan in April 2006 ahead of the company' s demerger with its SciSys division in September. Dave Belmont, group company secretary, said salary sacrifice allowed the company to increase the contributions it ...

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    John Lewis Partnership offers childcare to staff

    2006-12-01T00:00:01Z

    The John Lewis Partnership (JLP) has offered childcare vouchers since April 2005. It has recently added a feedback facility for the scheme to its intranet for John Lewis and Waitrose staff.Gill Bowler, implementation manager of benefits projects at the partnership, says the feedback forum has revealed that employees are generally ...

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    Childcare on offer at Cancer Research UK

    2006-12-01T00:00:01Z

    Cancer Research UK tested childcare vouchers on a pilot group of 12 staff in April 2005 after the tax and national insurance exemption on vouchers up to £50 a week was introduced. The tax-exempt limit has since been raised to £55 and the charity now offers the benefit to all ...

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    Rugby Football League offers health perks to staff

    2006-11-06T17:14:54Z

    The RFL is the governing body of Rugby League in the UK, and administers 450 clubs and 40,000 players. It employs 85 staff that referee, administer and help develop the sport.The RFL offers a private medical insurance policy, an employer-paid LHF healthcare cash plan and a bikes-for-work scheme. About 90% ...

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    Employer profile: Transport for London focus on occupational health

    2006-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Transport for London staff can find themselves subject to verbal and physical abuse from members of the public. Couteracting this forms part of a raft of occupational health initiatives, says Jamin RobertsonArticle in fullMalfunctioning trains, broken down buses, signal failure, and unexplained delays are par for the course for users ...

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    Employer profile: Henkel

    2006-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Integrating staff packages using perks has become an art form for acquisition-hungry consumer goods firm Henkel, says Amanda Wilkinson.Article in fullAcquisitions of new businesses and product development are part of life at Henkel, a global consumer goods business and the manufacturer of brands such as Schwarzkopf, UniBond, Loctite, Sellotape and ...

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    Britvic rethinks its earnings caps

    2006-11-06T00:00:00Z

    The principal aim for soft drinks company Britvic following A-Day has been to preserve members' pension entitlement and position.One way was by allowing all employees who could withdraw more than a 25% tax-free lump sum to continue to do so after A-day.Michael Mountford, head of compensations and benefits, explains: "For ...

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    Norton Rose offers a more complex PMI scheme to staff to boost take up

    2006-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Law firm Norton Rose swapped its private medical insurance scheme to a provider offering additional benefits in June 2006. Although it had no qualms about the service or premiums of its previous insurer, Mandy Campbell, pensions and benefits manager, believes that the additional benefits offered by PruHealth will make the ...

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    Body Shop International offers cash for staff to spend on skills and wellbeing

    2006-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Cosmetics firm Body Shop International offers its UK employees up to £100 a year to spend on learning new skills and activities which help them to stay fit and healthy for work. The company calls this 'Love' money, which stands for Learning is Of Value to Everyone. The cash can ...

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    PricewaterhouseCooper harmonises benefits post-merger

    2006-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) was formed from the merger of Price Waterhouse and Coopers & Lybrand in 1998. Carolyn Wilkinson, senior benefits manager at PwC, explains that a year later, it implemented a flexible benefits scheme partly to "align benefits for all staff within the company and recognise the diversity ...

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    Toshiba maintains flexible benefits momentum

    2006-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Toshiba Information Systems UK, which makes PCs, flat screen TVs and mobile phones, introduced a flexible benefits scheme for its 350 sales staff in 2001, at a time when it was hard do recruit IT specialists.Toshiba used an online flex platform from day one. Susan Stevens, head of HR at ...

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    Cadbury Trebor Bassett has made staff wellbeing part of its ethos

    2006-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Employee wellbeing has been a part of Cadbury Trebor Bassett's culture since it was founded back in 1879.In the last year-and-a half, however, it has taken a fresh approach, culminating in its wellbeing programme, Fit for Life. Kate van der Plank, Fit for Life programme manager, says: "(Employee wellbeing has) ...

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    Emap takes strategic approach to seasonal celebrations

    2006-11-06T00:00:00Z

    Emap delegates the organisation of seasonal benefits to individual departments. Stewart Grant, group benefits manager at the company, which publishes titles such as Heat and Zoo, says staff identify strongly with their individual brand.The company is aligned into three operating divisions: consumer media, communications, and radio, in addition to its ...

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    Ringwood Brewery offers choice around personal development allowances

    2006-11-06T00:00:00Z

    The Ringwood Brewery in Hampshire has a PDA policy that allows staff to spend their £500 yearly allowance on almost anything. However, it does impose some restrictions such as only being able to spend up to £250 on gym membership. Office manager, Lin Black, says she hasn't yet turned down ...

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    Boots increases levels of communication around merger with Alliance Unichem

    2006-11-06T00:00:00Z

    High street chemist, Boots, merged with Alliance Unichem in August 2006.Stephen Lehane, director of HR and organisation development at the newly-formed Alliance Boots, explains that communication with all employees was key even though no redundancies were made as a result of the merger. "Human beings' normal behaviour is to be ...