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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective absence management and rehabilitation strategy

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNERSerco, Serco Absence Process Review, entered by Jelf Employee BenefitsThis strategy features an online system that records and notifies managers of an employee’s absence on day one.Depending on the triggers for absence, a relevant professional, for example the insurer’s vocational rehabilitation consultant, or an in-house occupational health manager, gets in ...

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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective reward or benefits strategy for staff based outside the UK

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNERAmerican Express, Global Benefits GovernanceThis entrant introduced a new international reward strategy that reduced its total benefits costs and used the dividends from pooling arrangements to fund health and wellness benefits around the world.The Global Benefits Governance programme, which went live in 11 countries across Japan Asia-Pacific and Australia, and ...

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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective motivation or incentive strategy

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNERMerlin Entertainments, Merlin Global Recognition Schemes: Star and CEO Award PlanMerlin Entertainments impressed the judges with its introduction of two global motivation and recognition schemes for all staff after rolling out new company values across the business. The new schemes replaced more than 20 previous ones, which were owned at ...

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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Benefits team of the year

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNERKraft Foods, entered by BenefexThe benefits and reward team at Kraft Foods successfully tackled the huge challenge of harmonising employee terms and conditions in 2011 following the organisation’s high-profile acquisition of Cadbury.For the Cadbury acquisition to be a success, each member of the team was involved in the complex task ...

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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Employee benefits specialist of the year

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNERFrancis O’Mahony, head of employee share plans and share registration, BTFrancis O’Mahony was voted this year’s Employee Benefits Specialist of the Year because of his pioneering work on workplace savings and dedication to financial education at BT. This year, BT took the award for ‘Most effective strategy to encourage workplace ...

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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Employee benefits professional of the year

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNER Debra Corey, group compensation and benefits director, Merlin EntertainmentsDebra Corey is a much-admired, charismatic and highly respected figure in the employee benefits world. Before joining Merlin Entertainments, she had built up a high profile in reward by taking on the challenges of senior roles at a number of well-known ...

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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Grand Prix

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNERMcDonald's RestaurantsMcDonald's Restaurants was voted winner of this year's Grand Prix award because of its textbook approach to aligning its reward strategy with the needs of the business and its effective development of an employee brand.The organisation reduced staff turnover and increased sales significantly after discovering a strong correlation between ...

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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Meet the Judges

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    Panel chairDebi O’Donovan is editor of Employee Benefits and is responsible for editorial strategy across events, web and the magazine.Panel chairDebbie Lovewell, deputy editor of Employee Benefits, is an award-winning journalist who is responsible for news and features across the magazine and website.Panel chairDev Raval is director of reward at ...

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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective healthcare and wellbeing strategy for employers with more than 1,000 staff

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNERZurich Insurance, Zurich WellbeingThis entrant not only introduced a raft of measures tailored to address the needs of its workforce, but it also took significant steps to improve employee engagement scores on health and wellbeing.The insurance firm’s health and wellbeing campaign, branded Zurich Wellbeing, was launched in June 2011 and ...

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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective healthcare and wellbeing strategy for employers with fewer than 1,000 staff

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNERCapital One, Your Health MattersCapital One revamped its health and wellbeing provision for staff with a raft of measures designed to improve fitness, wellbeing and work-life balance.In January 2011, it opened an on-site gym called The Core at its head office in Nottingham. The judges were particularly impressed that employees ...

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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective benefits communications strategy for employers with more than 5,000 staff

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNERKraft Foods, Simply Rewards, entered by BenefexKraft Foods’ communications strategy was key to successfully integrating reward and benefits across the business after its acquisition of Cadbury.Kraft and Cadbury were coming from different standpoints, cultures and communication styles, so it was essential for communication to achieve parity across the workforce and ...

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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective benefits communications strategy for employers with fewer than 5,000 staff

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNERBromford, Bromford RewardsThis entrant used a multi-faceted communications strategy to promote its retail discount scheme, Bromford Rewards, which was introduced following employee feedback. The company involved its group of employee representatives in developing the project as part of efforts to ensure it reached all sections of the workforce.The judges noted ...

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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective alignment of reward strategy to business strategy for organisations with more than 1,000 employees

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNERMcDonald’s RestaurantsThis entrant significantly reduced staff turnover and increased sales after successfully linking its reward strategy to the needs of the business. The fast food chain discovered a correlation between employee engagement and business performance. For example, in restaurants where staff were engaged, sales were on average 28% higher and ...

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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective alignment of reward strategy to business strategy for organisations with fewer than 1,000 employees

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNERBarbon Insurance GroupThis business was formed in difficult circumstances in 2008. Not only did it have to deal with the fall-out from the financial collapse of its parent company and a decline in profits, but staff turnover was high and increasing, and low levels of morale were contributing to rising ...

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    EXCLUSIVE: McDonald's Restaurants wins Grand Prix at Employee Benefits Awards

    2012-06-06T08:30:00Z

    McDonald’s Restaurants, Merlin Entertainments, BT and Kraft Foods were among the big winners at this year's Employee Benefits Awards, which took place at the Artillery Garden at The HAC on 31 May.McDonald’s Restaurants took the coveted overall Grand Prix prize, plus the category award for ‘Most effective alignment of reward ...

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    Winners of the Employee Benefits Awards announced

    2012-06-01T11:00:00Z

    The 2012 Employee Benefits Awards took place at The Artillery Garden at the HAC in London on 31 May.Hosted by Jason Byrne on behalf of Employee Benefits magazine and celebrating the best in benefits, just 24 winners were selected from 100 finalists.More details and photos will be added to this ...

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    GE, Kraft Foods and Virgin Media among the employers shortlisted for the Employee Benefits Awards 2012

    2012-03-27T09:43:06Z

    GE, Home Retail Group, Kraft Foods, McDonald’s Restaurants and Virgin Media are among the employers shortlisted for the Employee Benefits Awards 2012.Other finalists include:'Benefits team of the year':AvivaCancer Research UKKraft FoodsLinklatersMarks and Spencer'Most effective alignment of reward strategy to business strategy for organisations with more than 1,000 employees':Everything EverywhereGEGrant ThorntonJLT ...

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    Employee Benefits Live 2011 conference slides

    2011-10-03T12:02:00Z

    To view a presentation fromEmployee Benefits Live 2011, which was held in London on 27-28 September, please click on the link next to the sessions below. Not all speakers are able to give us permission to put their slides online. When this happens we have tried to persuade them to ...

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    Marcia Reid of Finchers Consulting: Employee Benefits Live 2011

    2011-10-03T11:35:31Z

    Employee Benefits Live has become an essential part of the calendar for the UK employee benefits industry. This is an excellent opportunity to meet potential clients – reward and benefits professional flock to the event – it's also a great networking forum. This year was no exception – The Business ...

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    Employee Benefits Live 2011 brings industry together

    2011-09-29T11:43:48Z

    View video of Employee Benefits Live 2011View Twitter feed: #EBLiveAdd comments, inputs and questions below reportEmployee Benefits Live 2011 brought together all the key players in the benefits and reward industry for two days of networking, attending conference sessions and meeting over 100 leading suppliers.The event opened with a key ...