All articles by Debbie Lovewell-Tuck – Page 57
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Research: attitudes to health and wellbeing
Most employers are keen to improve staff health and welfare, but are feeling the pressure to keep benefits costs down, says Debbie LovewellOverall, employers believe they have a role to play in looking after employees’ wellbeing. This view has remained fairly consistent over the past decade. In our healthcare research ...
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EEF pilots health and wellbeing qualification
Manufacturers organisation, EEF, is piloting a new qualification aimed at helping managers improve the health and wellbeing of their employees.Its Management of Health and Wellbeing at Work qualification, which is accredited by the National Examination Board in Occupational Safety and Health, is designed to benefit employers who are seeking to ...
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Agency workers could get same pay as permanent staff
Agency workers could receive the same pay and conditions as permanent staff under new proposals outlined in a government consultation on the implementation of the Agency Workers Directive.The rights would take effect once agency workers have spent 12 weeks in a post, as part of the government's implementation of the ...
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Staff given office helter skelter
Employees based at Sheffield's Electric Works office building have been given a fun way of travelling between floors in the form of Britain's first office helter skelter.The 85-foot long novelty slide is able to transport staff from the third floor to the building's reception in seven seconds.Toby Hyam, managing director ...
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Councils re-sign contracts for HR and payroll systems
East Dorset District Council, Huntingdinshire District Council and Gosport Borough Council have re-signed their contracts with NorthgateArinso to continue using its fully-integrated HR and payroll system.All three councils have used the Resourcelink service for the last five years.Phillip Reynolds, head of pay and administration at Gosport Borough Council, said: "This ...
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Personal Accounts Delivery Authority launches consultation on investment
The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (Pada) has launched a discussion paper on investment for personal accounts which will be introduced in 2012.The responses to the discussion paper will inform Pada's recommendations to the trustee corporation regarding the design of the personal accounts scheme. The scheme will be run by a ...
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Employers banned from using tips as wages
Employers in the hospitality industry will be banned from using tips to bring employees' pay up to the national minimum wage from 1 October.Following a government consultation, all service charges, tips, gratuities and cover charges will be excluded from payment towards the minimum wage when the new law comes into ...
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Channel 4 outsources HR administration and payroll
Channel 4 has outsourced its HR administration and payroll to Logica as part of a company-wide programme to reduce costs and streamline its operations.Under the terms of the partnership, Logica will implement Oracle’s payroll application and integrate it with the company’s existing Oracle HR system to achieve a single and ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: Employers torn between motivation and cutbacks
Employers are increasingly torn between motivating staff in the recession and needing to cut costs.The Employee Benefits Research 2009 found that 43% of employers intend to seek ways to maintain staff motivation, or have already done so. But 29% have imposed, or are planning, pay freezes, and the same proportion ...
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Debra Corey joins Quintiles
Pharmaceutical firm Quintiles has appointed Debra Corey as senior director, compensation and benefits, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Corey, who takes up the role this month, was previously interim head of rewards at supermarket chain Morrisons.
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Interview with Debra Corey, senior director, compensation and benefits, EMEA at Quintiles
Debra Corey, senior director, compensation and benefits, EMEA at Quintiles, has a flexible approach to perksIt is rare to find a compensation and benefits professional who can say their sporting achievements led to them entering the world of reward. In Debra Corey’s case, it was taking part in competitive gymnastics ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: core benefits offered
The past five years have seen little change in the top benefits offered in a traditional core package. For many years, training and development was viewed as a human resource strategy separate to benefits strategy. But the growing prominence of total reward strategies has led to more training and development ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: how benefits are offered
Although most employers still offer their staff traditional core benefits, the percentage that offer perks by some other means – on a voluntary basis, through a flexible benefits scheme or via salary sacrifice – has risen steadily over the past five years. Back in 2004, for example, 34% of respondents ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: responsibility for and communication of benefits
Over the past 10 years, huge advances in technology have transformed the way employers communicate benefits to staff. Back in 1998, when Employee Benefits carried out the Strategic reward research, only a quarter of employers used email to communicate benefits and just 7% had an intranet site. How things have ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: Evaluation of and attitudes to benefits
There has been a significant rise in the importance of obtaining, and demonstrating, value for money on benefits over the past five years. When respondents were asked back in 2004 about their perceptions of their benefits package, just 29% said it provided value for money. This year, 79% said the ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: benefits strategy
Over the last five years, little seems to have changed in how employers view their benefits strategies. With many compensation and reward professionals coming under increasing pressure to control reward costs and demonstrate that they are obtaining value for their spend, it is encouraging to see that just under two-thirds ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: changes to employee benefits
Keeping a benefits package fresh is the only way of making sure it remains interesting and continues to appeal to employees for any length of time.The best way for employers to achieve this is to regularly review and monitor their package, with a view to adding perks that staff are ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: flexible benefits
Although the popularity of flexible benefits schemes is increasing, growth in this area has occurred more slowly than for other types of benefits scheme. This may be because myths still persist among employers about the expense of implementing flex and the cost of a scheme’s administration, despite advances in flex ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: tax efficient benefits and salary sacrifice
Given the tax and/or national insurance (NI) savings available on tax-efficient benefits offered via a salary sacrifice arrangement, it is no surprise that just under three-quarters (72%) of respondents offer their workforce this type of perk. Those that do not must have heard of these savings, so it is likely ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2009: voluntary benefits
Giving employees access to discounted products through a voluntary benefits scheme is a cheap, cost-effective way to provide benefits, particularly for employers that cannot afford to pay for staff perks. But voluntary schemes are by no means the poor relations of the benefits world. Many employers offer them alongside core ...