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Expatriate assignment reward policy at BP
Case study: BP as presented at the CIPD Seminar on Managing International Assignments on 5 March 2008.Speaker:Carole Crossley, VP HR international mobility, BPCompany notes:An oil, gas, petrochemicals and renewable company98,000 staff with operations in over 100 countries3,500 expats in over 60 countries, from 55 different home countrieslarge number of international ...
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Case study: Unilever
Case study: Unilever sets clear objectives for planUnilever UK, which closed its final salary pension scheme to new employees in January 2008, has clear objectives for the plan.At the same time, it also reduced the minimum amount by which it increases pensions in payment from a 5% cap to 3%. ...
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Case study: Travis Perkins Group
Case study: Travis Perkins Group enables staff to build perksThe Travis Perkins Group enables staff to take up childcare vouchers, payroll giving and a cycle-to-work scheme through a salary sacrifice arrangement.However, the firm decided to adopt its own term, 'salary exchange', to describe tax-efficient benefits. Claire Williams, group reward manager, ...
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Case study: KCOM
Case study: Telecoms firm KCOM boosts take up with messagingYorkshire-based IT and communications service provider KCOM Group has just under 3,000 staff based around the UK and, last November, won an ifs ProShare award for the effective communication of its employee share scheme.Having run sharesave schemes and a share incentive ...
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Employer profile: Coors Brewers
Coors Brewers uses employee feedback to revamp perks as it works to evolve the company’s culture, says Debbie LovewellThe public would be forgiven for thinking that alcohol consumption is on the rise amid a flurry of newspaper headlines about teenage binge drinkers and excessive wine consumption among the middle classes. ...
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Case Study: Atkins
Case study: AtkinsEngineering consultancy Atkins is trying to clean up its act by persuading staff to switch to green cars. Last year, the company began rewarding workers who pick cars with carbon dioxide emissions of less than 160g/km.Iain Willetts, head of reward, says "We want to encourage those colleagues entitled ...
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Employee rewards and benefits at Lloyd's
Clare Bettelley speaks to Luke Savage about insurance market Lloyd’s titanic battle to retain employees at the not-for-profit CorporationThe challenge in attracting staff to Lloyd’s, the specialist insurance market formally known as Lloyd’s of London, is compounded by the fact that it is a not-for-profit organisation and lacks the ability ...
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Reducing absence at Virgin is not pie in sky
Case study: Reducing absence at Virgin is not pie in skyWhen looking to demonstrate a return on its benefits investment, Virgin Group looked at absence levels, recording these both before and after new healthcare benefits were introduced.One of the new benefits provided was an on-site physiotherapist to help employees deal ...
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BDO Stoy Hayward offers trust-based salary sacrifice plan
BDO Stoy Hayward offers a trust-based defined contribution (DC) scheme, into which staff can make contributions on a salary sacrifice basis through the company’s flexible benefits scheme.Staff can make additional voluntary contributions on top of those made from their flex allowance. Those who do so also receive a ‘special employer ...
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Punch Taverns' thirst for immediate perks
Case study: Punch Taverns' thirst for immediate perksLast year, Punch Taverns launched an instant reward programme for both its head office and pub employees to encourage staff to demonstrate the organisation's values.Through the scheme called Proud, which is an acronym of the company's values: P - pride, R - respect, ...
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Employer profile: Zurich
Swiss-based financial services firm Zurich looks to its roots for benefits leadership, but has the flexibility to tailor perks on a local level, says Kate DonovanZurich Financial Services’ 8,868 employees based in the UK, Isle of Man and the Channel Islands may not have the sunshine or exotic scenery of ...
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Case StudiesEmployer profile: Whitbread
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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3D Entertainment Group communicates voluntary benefits
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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Cadbury Schweppes moves voluntary benefits online
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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Coda offers Shariah fund in GPP
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
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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BT prepares for legal changes around benefits
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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Employer profile: Cancer Research UK
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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University of Bolton's staff stay fit with a health and wellbeing initiative
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
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 ...