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Body Shop International offers cash for staff to spend on skills and wellbeing
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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Norton Rose offers a more complex PMI scheme to staff to boost take up
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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Britvic rethinks its earnings caps
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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Employer profile: Transport for London focus on occupational health
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
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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Capgemini offers financial education to employees
IT consultancy Capgemini decided to offer a financial education package to employees after its HR department received numerous requests for help with financial queries, especially about mortgages.Many of the firm's 6,500 employees are based at client sites spread throughout the UK. In order to fit in with their working patterns, ...
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Lloyds TSB tinkers with flex to meet age laws
Case study: Lloyds TSBLloyds TSB is to increase the maximum age at which staff can obtain products offered through its flexible benefits scheme to ensure it complies with age discrimination legislation. Many products offered, including private medical insurance (PMI), health screening, life assurance and critical illness cover, currently have a ...
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Bestinvest critical of delays in group risk implementation
Case Study: BestinvestAs a financial services organisation, intermediary Bestinvest was aware of the importance of allowing adequate time for the implementation of its flexible benefits scheme on 1 January 2006. The design process had therefore commenced five months previously.Most quotes for income protection, which is a core benefit, and critical ...
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AstraZeneca international flex allows for local variance
Case study: AstraZenecaPharmaceutical company AstraZeneca offers flexible benefits plans in a number of the countries in which it has an employee presence including its three main locations: the US, Sweden and the UK.The company has a two-page document that outlines its global compensation and benefits aims, but doesn’t specify exactly ...
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Broadly similar international flex for Vanco
Case study: VancoIn April 2003, virtual network operator Vanco simultaneously introduced its flexible benefits package, V:choice, across eight countries - the UK, Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Singapore, the US and Australia. In 2004, this was extended to cover Belgium, France and the Czech Republic,followed by Sweden, Switzerland and Poland at ...
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National Grid Wireless uses in-house know-how to launch flex
Case study: National Grid WirelessWhen National Grid Wireless launched its flexible benefits scheme in December last year, it called on its in-house tax advisers for assistance.Their advice was particularly useful when identifying which benefits were tax-exempt because the flex scheme is based on salary sacrifice arrangements. Bruce Sayers, reward and ...
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Adecco provider relationship underpins admin success
Case study: AdeccoKatie Ivie, head of HR business partnering for recruitment company Adecco,believes a strong relationship with providers is crucial to eliminating unintended costs of flexible benefits schemes.The firm, which introduced a flexible benefits package in June 2004 for its 3,500 staff in the UK, used the increased headcount made ...
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Finnforest UK underpins salary sacrifice with thorough comms
Case study: Finnforest UKWhen timber supplier Finnforest UK introduced a salary sacrifice arrangement for bikes in September 2005, it was aware of the importance of communication.Sue Culverhouse, HR administrator, found that filtering information through line managers was the most effective communication process."Although leaflets were produced, we found that educating management ...
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Gap opts for stakeholder pension
Case study: GapGap employs 6,500 staff in the UK, predominately in stores across 140 locations, with 90% working on a part-time basis across a variety of shift patterns and days. Sue Hayes, HR consultant, says: "Effective and consistent messaging to this group is one of the biggest challenges we face. ...
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Airbus Deutschland runs innovative scheme to fund pensions
Case study: Airbus Deutschland†Hamburg-based Airbus Deutschland runs an innovative scheme funding pensions for its 18,000 employees in return for overtime credits.The aircraft maker developed the concept with Invesco, which manages the investment and admin of the scheme, as a response to discussions about raising the retirement age.A portion of employees' ...
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BSkyB opts for outsourced admin
Case study: BSkyBBSkyB launched its salary sacrifice scheme, Sky Choices, in March 2005. It offers 11,000 employees a home computing scheme, bicycles and childcare vouchers.Dev Raval, group head of reward, started by considering two options - a one-stop shop provider that could perform the admin for the whole scheme and ...
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Majority of Procter & Gamble staff take advantage of share scheme
Case study: Procter & GambleProcter & Gamble employees were first encouraged to buy company shares in the US during the mid nineteenth century.The share habit quickly spread across the Atlantic and today the vast majority of P&G's 4,500 UK staff take advantage of a scheme under which they can spend ...
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Yorkshire Building Society prefers cash over cars
Case Study: Yorkshire Building SocietyBuild in reduced admin Yorkshire Building Society has had a cash allowance scheme in place since 1998.Mary Blackwell, supplies manager at the organisation, believes the reduction in admin is the key advantage of the scheme. “It certainly is easier to administer, we obviously have more to ...
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Capita Group offers financial education on share schemes
Case study: Capita GroupProfessional services and outsourcing company Capita Group has offered a sharesave scheme since 2000 and a share incentive plan since 2002. It uses a range of methods to educate its employees about its share schemes, including mailing booklets to their home addresses, hosting presentations and putting information ...
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Whitbread focuses on company cars
Case Study: WhitbreadHospitality and leisure firm Whitbread runs 600 company cars and has reduced the number of cash alternatives it offers.The company has two fleet systems, a car benefit scheme for status and perk drivers, and the company car scheme for business drivers.Nigel Trotman, business relationship manager, believes retaining company ...