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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective use of total reward statements

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNERTesco, Benefit Reports: Communicating our overall pay and benefits packageThis entrant sent personalised total reward statements to its 277,000 staff to ensure they understood the value of their pay and benefi ts in a tough economic climate. The statements, sent to employees’ home addresses, came with a personal letter from ...

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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective benefits strategy in a public or voluntary sector organisation

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNERYHA (England and Wales), YHA RewardsYHA designed a cost-effective benefits package that was relevant for staff of different ages and life stages. It was launched in conjunction with a three-year cost-saving exercise designed to cut central overhead costs by £1.7 million, so it had to achieve return on investment, and ...

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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective strategy to encourage workplace savings

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNERBT, Planning for retirement, entered by Wealth at WorkBT’s workplace savings strategy aims to ensure employees make informed decisions about their future.The company provides its workforce with a number of savings options, including two sharesave schemes and a share incentive plan. It also provides a defined benefit pension for employees. ...

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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective pensions communications strategy

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNERElectronic Arts, My Future, entered by Thomsons Online BenefitsElectronic Arts’ creative and fun strategy was designed to engage younger employees with pensions.It decided to take action after a review of its pension scheme in April 2011 revealed that 66% of staff had signed up to the scheme, but just 43% ...

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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective pensions change strategy

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNERSvitzer UK, Launch of Corporate Wrap, entered by Hargreaves LansdownThe innovative way in which Svitzer UK consolidated several legacy pension schemes by introducing a corporate wrap with a contract-based defined contribution (DC) scheme made it a clear winner.The corporate wrap, available to the entire workforce, allows employees to manage their ...

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    Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective all-employee share scheme strategy

    2012-07-01T23:00:00Z

    WINNERAsda Stores, Sharesave, entered by ComputershareIn a tightly-fought category, the judges were impressed by Asda’s decision to remove paper enrolment for its sharesave scheme and rely solely on electronic methods. This was felt to be a particularly brave step given Asda’s workforce demographic and the fact that most employees do ...

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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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    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 ...