All articles by Jennifer Paterson – Page 113
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EXCLUSIVE: Home Retail Group hosts benefits roadshow
Home Retail Group has hosted an interactive benefits roadshow for its 18,000 Homebase employees to raise awareness around its one-year-old voluntary benefits scheme.The three-day event, which took place from 28 February to 1 March, resulted in eleven-times more new registrations, compared to the previous week, and weekly log-ins to the ...
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Total reward statements show full value of benefits
If you read nothing else, read this… Total reward statements (TRS) should be one piece of a larger approach to benefits communication. TRS can be used to promote the non-cash benefits on offer, putting a tangible value on these perks. Some employers are combining TRS with face-to-face pay reviews.Total reward ...
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Feel Good to launch workplace beauty treatments
Feel Good is to launch workplace beauty treatments as part of its wellbeing services for employers to offer staff.The wellbeing organisation, which partnered with JLT Employee Benefits six months ago to provide its services to employers through its flexible benefits scheme, also offers 20-minute remedial chair massages, fitness classes, and ...
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Informa gets set for pension reforms
Informa has renegotiated the annual management charge (AMC) on its group personal pension (GPP), and is introducing a pensions governance committee and financial education sessions in the run-up to auto-enrolment.The changes follow a market review the publishing and events firm conducted with its pension provider, Friends Life, to ensure it ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Esop and MAS team up to educate employees
The Employee Share Ownership (Esop) Centre has partnered the Money Advice Service (MAS) to highlight the importance of financial education to employers.Both bodies plan to lobby the government for more promotion of, and support for, financial education. David Poole, UK director at Esop, said: “Everyone knows financial education is a ...
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CSC platform puts focus on financial education
Technology firm CSC focused on financial education as the basis for its corporate platform when it was launched two years ago.Speaking in a panel debate entitled ‘Holistic approaches to workplace saving - new era or false dawn?’ at the Employee Benefits Pensions and Workplace Savings Summit 2012 on 9 March, ...
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My Family Care launches dedicated childcare and carer website
My Family Care has launched a dedicated back-up childcare and carer services website to help employers provide their working parents and carers with alternative arrangements during the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.The Work and Family Space, which was introduced in April, joins up the provider’s services, such as emergency ...
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EXCLUSIVE: NATS introduces salary sacrifice company car scheme
National Air Traffic Services (NATS) has launched a salary sacrifice company car scheme as part of a wider programme to support its 4,500 staff in making low-emission travel choices.The air traffic management firm already offers a bikes-for-work scheme, car-share scheme, and shuttle bus from the local train station to its ...
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EXCLUSIVE: BA to introduce car discount scheme and switch company car provider
British Airways (BA) is to introduce a car discount scheme and new dedicated reward website for its 38,000 employees, and switch provider of the company car scheme for its 200 senior staff.A key issue for the airline when offering company cars is alignment with its wider business policy of minimising ...
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Mitie Group and Ernst & Young among top employers for women
Ernst and Young and Mitie Group are among the employers to receive a place in The Times’ top 50 employers for women list.The list is compiled in partnership with Opportunity Now, the gender equality campaign by Business in the Community. It celebrates organisations that are committed to promoting diversity and ...
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Mills and Reeve to consolidate pensions and switch providers ahead of pension reforms
?Mills and Reeve plans to consolidate its stakeholder and group personal pension (GPP) schemes into one GPP, has switched its pensions adviser, and will offer its 800 staff a pension modelling tool ahead of the pension reforms.The law firm is reviewing its schemes, which have take-up levels above 90%, in ...
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Siemens adds electric cars to UK fleet
Siemens has added its first electric cars to its UK fleet, as part of an overall corporate approach to sustainability.The Nissan Leafs, provided by Lex Autolease, will be used in Lincoln by employees making trips to the engineering and technology firm’s sites and its University of Lincoln Engineering Hub.Siemens has ...
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Aspire adds 1% match to employees' pension contributions
EXCLUSIVE: Aspire has introduced a 1% match on its employees’ contributions to the group personal pension (GPP) scheme to encourage them to get used to saving in advance of auto-enrolment.The matched contribution is for employees who contribute at least £20 of their salary per month. The scheme is offered as ...
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Swissport Stansted staff vote to strike over pay and working patterns
Swissport employees based at Stansted airports have voted to take industrial action over the Easter weekend in a dispute over pay and working patterns.The decision for strike action comes after a 90-day consultation period, with employees at trade union GMB. The change includes employees spreading their contractual hours over a ...
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Evans Cycles launches online bikes-for-work service
Evans Cycles has moved its bikes-for-work application process online.Employees that participate in the scheme through their employer will be able to go online to redeem their certificates, the tender by which employees collect their bike and accessories from Evans Cycles.The online process will be automatically available to all participants.Mark Brown, ...
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Wealth at Work appoints Leslie Huss-Smickler to head up retirement division
Wealth at Work has appointed Leslie Huss-Smickler as head of retirement services.Huss-Smickler has more than 30 years of experience in the pensions industry. His former roles include pensions manager at the BBC and pensions policy manager at BT.Huss-Smickler said: “My new role as head of retirement services will allow me ...
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Teachers in London strike over pension changes
Teachers are striking in London today over changes to their pension scheme.Members of the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the University and College Union (UCU) have rejected the final offer from the government.Members of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) have accepted the government’s pension scheme reforms, which ...
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Nexen Petroleum achieves 85% take-up of employee discount scheme
EXCLUSIVE: Nexen Petroleum has seen 85% of employees register for its employee discount scheme since it was launched at the end of January.At the end of the first week, 59% of the oil and gas company’s staff were registered for the scheme. That figure had risen to 85% by mid-March.The ...
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Public sector staff earn more per hour than private sector staff
Public sector employees earn more per hour than those in the private sector, according to figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS).The difference in average hourly earnings between employees in the public and private sector stood at 8.2% in 2011.The figure is based on findings from the Annual survey ...
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GE, Kraft Foods and Virgin Media among the employers shortlisted for the Employee Benefits Awards 2012
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 ...