All articles by Debi O'Donovan – Page 11
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The role of payroll in auto-enrolment
Employee Bene?ts Connect 2013 has therefore invited Karen Thomson, associate director of policy, research and strategic visibility at the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals, to talk delegates through how to get the most out of payroll during auto-enrolment implementation.Book your place at www.employeebene?tsconnect.co.uk
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Employee Benefits Connect will be time well spent
Visitors can book for single sessions on the topics that are most relevant to them.They will also be able to speak to a variety of suppliers in an easy-to-network atmosphere.Held at the Westminster Park Plaza hotel in central London on 1 March, the event is easy to get to and ...
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Top line-up of speakers at Employee Benefits Connect
Speakers will include:Louise Aston, workwell director, Business in the CommunityStuart Bailey, managing director - UK operations, Accurate EquityTim Banks, head of sales and client relations, AllianceBernsteinJohn Beadle, global practice leader, performance and reward, Rio TintoStephen Bowles, head of institutional defined contributions, SchrodersPaul Budgen, national business development manager, HSBC Workplace Retirement ...
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Leading futurologist to speak at Employee Benefits Connect
Millard likes nothing better than to challenge conventional business thinking, from how call centres are managed to the ways in which people work.Attend this session to gain an insight into how your future employees will think, and how new generations will interact differently because of changes in technology.Even if you ...
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DOD’s blog: this week in benefits
The issue of workplace marketing of employee benefits is niggling in the back of my mind. Does anyone else feel uncomfortable with it?Somewhere between ‘it is good to push staff into a pension and deduct money from pay for it’ and ‘here are some benefits suppliers selling you their wares’ ...
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DOD’s blog: this week in benefits
So, this week we’ve had more news about employers deferring bonus payments until after 6 April so that staff earning more than £150k a year can pay income tax at 45% instead of 50% as currently applies.Virgin Media defers bonus paymentsThe general population might squeal at the idea of ‘fatcats’ ...
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International reward supplement 2013
Employee Benefits’ International reward supplement rounds up the latest trends in international reward markets and considers the future shape of employers’ benefits take-up.The report (download pdf) covers:Teresa Rogers: Local support is the keyPensions provision around the globeKBC banks on three-fund strategyGabriel Bernardino: Pan-European savingsGlobal reward needs local balanceInternational PMI must ...
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Link up at Employee Benefits Connect in London on 1 March 2013
Booking now open: on the Employee Benefits Connect website.The event partners with leading advisers and suppliers to present new research, blue-sky thinking or insights into the influencers that will affect the workplace, society and employees in the coming years.In 2013, there will be three new conferences within the event: one ...
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Vote for the best workplace savings platform
The Platforum has teamed up with Employee Benefits to find out which workplace savings platform is the best in the market.If you are an employer which offers your staff a workplace savings platform, or an adviser which recommends them to employer clients then we would like your vote.Vote hereVoting closes ...
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Employee Benefits Live will take place on 25-26 September 2013 in London
For 2012, Employee Benefits Live moved to Olympia National Hall, London and the show was bigger and better than ever!With 38 Conference sessions, over 100 leading reward and benefits providers and lots of brand new Show features, Employee Benefits Live continues to be the must attend event for anyone in ...
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DOD’s blog: this week in benefits
Today I had the privilege of lunching with the highly regarded John Greenwood (editor of Corporate Adviser and regular writer for the likes of The Sunday Telegraph and Money Marketing).Few journalists are as clued up on pensions as John, so when he has a beef about something it is usually ...
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DOD’s blog: this week in benefits
For two days this week the Employee Benefits gang have decamped to the luxurious surroundings of the Four Seasons Hotel in Hampshire – to a lifestyle to which we would love to become accustomed.We haven’t come alone. We have brought with us several dozen leading benefits and HR managers who ...
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Rob Horrocks: How to get the finance director on side
Rob Horrocks, financial director at Merlin Entertainments, the operator of amusement parks and other attractions, tells the audience at Employee Benefits Live 2012 how benefits managers can get the finance director on side.He shares his top tips on what not to say if benefits managers want to avoid winding up ...
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Jane Richards: Top tips on procuring benefits
Jane Richards, reward technical partner, wealth, at the Royal Bank of Scotland, aligned to Coutts, talks to Debi O’Donovan, editor at Employee Benefits, about the aspects benefits and HR managers should consider when procuring benefits.Whether to do-it-yourself, or use a broker or consultant, will be heavily influenced by how experienced ...
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Jamie Jenkins: What HR needs to consider about default funds
Jamie Jenkins, head of workplace strategy at Standard Life, speaks to Debi O’Donovan, editor of Employee Benefits, about the importance of employers engaging in the type of funds their pension scheme members are invested in.Auto-enrolment rules mean that millions of employees will be coming into pension schemes for the very ...
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Slides: Employee Benefits Pensions and Workplace Savings Summit 2013
NOTE: slides are only for delegates to this event and may not be distrubuted without the presenters’ permission.Slides for Thursday 31 January 201310:30 – 11:00Latest Workplace Savings Policy Developments Bridget Micklem, Head of Private Pensions Policy and Analysis, Department for Work & PensionsSLIDES NOT AVAILABLE11:00 – 11:40Caveat Venditor – The ...
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Debi O'Donovan: Give suppliers a financial health check
Are you absolutely sure that your suppliers will still be able to deliver all they have promised to your employees?There are strict laws governing pensions and insurance providers, with more belts and braces making their way over from Europe (Solvency II, anyone?), but what about other types of benefit, such ...
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Health cash plan report 2013
Employee Benefits’ Health Cash Plans report highlights the mains topics and issues employers should be aware of around health cash plans.The report (download pdf) covers:Health cash plans versus primvate medical insuranceCheck out the providers and what they offerUnusual requests challenge cash plan providersThe devil can be in the detail for ...
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DOD’s blog: this week in benefits
I have had a couple of interesting conversations this week about whether flexible benefits still exists any more (well, one has to find something interesting to chat about when the main item on the agenda is risk insurances - at least both events also had wine!).Given that so many employers ...
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Lockton Benefits UK launches
Global insurance and risk management company Lockton has officially launched its employee benefits business in the UK.Earlier in January, an agreement was made to transfer the Hymans Robertson risk-broking team to Lockton Benefits UK, under which a small number of Hymans Robertson staff will be Tupe (transfer of undertakings (protection ...