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Kwik-Fit Financial Services uses providers to limit admin burden
Kwik-Fit Financial Services, which employs around 840 call centre staff, is keen to limit the administration around its flexible benefits scheme.Elizabeth McVeigh, senior HR co-ordinator, explains: "We have had problems in the past where flex products have been an administrative burden, but having providers offering straight-forward and easy-to-use benefits makes ...
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Bristol University shifted to permanent contracts
The shift from fixed-term to permanent contracts can clearly be seen by the experience of Bristol University.Just over two years ago around 99% of its 1,100 research staff were on short-term deals. Now this figure is around 48%, according to the personnel manager for policy development Christian Carter. Fixed-term contracts ...
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BSkyB bosses offers staff green benefits
BSkyB offers a host of green benefits for staff as part of the organisation's environmental strategy, the Bigger Picture.Under one initiative, it issues carbon credit cards to employees onto which it loads points for environmentally-friendly acts of behaviour, such as walking or cycling to work. This can then earn them ...
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Center Parcs replaced trust-based pension with GPP
Cost was a key concern when holiday company Center Parcs decided to close its trust-based pension scheme and replace it with a group personal pension.Tim Parker, the company secretary, says: "We wanted to keep cost to a minimum without sacrificing quality of investment. Many of our 6,000 staff are part-time ...
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Skipton Building Society offers staff stakeholder pension
Skipton Building Society offers its employees a company-sponsored stakeholder pension from Norwich Union. It recently ran a national roadshow to encourage staff to increase their pension contributions from the previous minimum of 0.5% to at least 3%, and take a more active interest in the scheme performance by monitoring it ...
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BBC offers pre-school visits to editorial staff
The BBC has extended its training programme to include school visits for editorial staff on its pre-school and education publications.Previously, employees in its education and pre-school learning departments, who work on titles such as CBeebies magazine, could access advice from experts in pre-school education. The BBC has now extended this ...
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Enterprise Rent-A-Car has extended compulsory retirement age
Enterprise Rent-A-Car extended its compulsory retirement age of 65 years to all employees, following the introduction of the Employment Equality (Age) regulations 2006 last October.This had previously only applied to its senior management team, while the rest of its workforce had no set retirement age.Jim Burrell, senior vice president for ...
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McDonald's lobbies to revise McJob definition
McDonald’s will campaign to have the dictionary definition of the term McJob revised.The Oxford English Dictionary defined a McJob as “an unstimulating, low-paid job with few prospects, especially, one created by the expansion of the service sector”. The UK arm of the fast-food chain is planning a petition to get ...
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Anglian Water opts to make total reward statements annually
Utility company, Anglian Water, first issued hard-copy total reward statements to its 4,000 employees in 2005 and has decided to provide them annually. The firm did this because it had introduced a number of new benefits over the last few years, but felt that these changes were not visible to ...
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DHL has re-packaged its perks
DHL Express is gradually implementing a total reward strategy.Although the delivery company began to develop its scheme in 2004, various factors such as its unionised environment meant that it only began to put this into practice last year. The first step was its introduction of a voluntary benefits scheme last ...
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EC Harris' dental plan is particularly appealing
Jessie Hiney, an associate at EC Harris, has been with the company for just over six years.She particularly values the extensive range of perks offered through the firm's flexible benefits scheme My Share. "It offers virtually everything other than pet [insurance]," she says.Hiney uses her flex fund to buy dental ...
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Training proves popular with Buckinghamshire County Council staff
Buckinghamshire County Council has found that training is a popular benefit among staff. Feedback from its annual benefits survey shows that training is consistently rated as one of the organisation's top three perks. For this reason, it plans to offer each employee a minimum of five days training and development ...
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Employer profile: EC Harris
In an industry ravaged by skills shortages, multinational property practice EC Harris needs to keep a close measure of rivals in the recruitment stakes, says Vicki TaylorThe UK’s winning bid for the 2012 Olympics has caused some controversy, especially in London where householders are expected to foot council tax rises ...
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Equals One and Encore Recruitment has found that flex works
Recruitment consultancy Equals One and Encore Recruitment has a bulging trophy cabinet full of awards for innovation, particularly in the flexible working field. Director Vivienne Duke says: "Without doubt, flexible working [arrangements] improve staff turnover and [reduce] staff absenteeism, and promote a healthy, happy workplace."The company has offered flexible working ...
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Tesco employee values share plans
Paul Eaton is an in-store pharmacist. He joined Tesco six years ago, initially on a part-time basis while at university before taking on a full-time role two years ago.He particularly values Tesco's all-employee share plans, and has taken advantage of its save-as-you-earn (Sharesave) scheme, the last one of which matured ...
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Kleinwort Benson Private Bank motivates staff on an individual basis
Kleinwort Benson Private Bank tends to motivate staff on an individual basis, by assessing each new employee in order to identify what drives them at work. This insight is used to develop a clear career progression path within the firm for the bankers, which, combined with bonuses, helps keeps them ...
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Employer Profile: Tesco
Retailer Tesco goes from strength to strength. Group benefits manager Mark Roberts explains how the supermarket’s perks encourage staff to take a stake in the business and subscribe to its core values.Related articles on employee benefits at Tesco:Tesco plans homes for staffTesco staff share GBP175 million payoutTesco to offer employees ...
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Ernst & Young offers staff global exchange programme
Professional services company Ernst & Young has traditionally offered a two-year global exchange programme to its 114,000 staff.However, through staff focus groups, it emerged that many employees would also like to have the option of shorter stints working abroad.Riaz Shah, people leader for assurance and advisory business services at Ernst ...
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Standard Chartered Bank caters for international assignments
Standard Chartered Bank operates in 56 countries and has 58,000 employees worldwide. Staff are encouraged to take international assignments and there are currently around 35 in-bound assignees working in the UK.Manissa Patel, head of international mobility, explains that because overseas assignments are such a normal occurrence, it does not have ...
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Herts county council supports staff with caring responsibilities
Hertfordshire County Council has offered a range of support services and benefits for employees with caring responsibilities since 2002.It is already ahead of the requirements due to be brought in by the Work and Families Act in April as it allows all staff to request to work flexibly.Other support tools ...