All articles by Jennifer Paterson – Page 150
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WSPA moves payroll giving scheme online
The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) has moved its payroll giving scheme online.The WSPA has offered a payroll giving scheme in place for many years, enabling workplaces across the UK and its own 100 staff, to donate through their salaries. Now, the scheme can be accessed via ...
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Cheshire West and Chester Council introduces holiday purchasing
Cheshire West and Chester Council has introduced a holiday purchasing scheme which, it projects, will result in annual savings of almost £100,000.Through its new Holiday Plus scheme, the council’s 6,500 employees will be able to purchase up to 10 days a year via a salary sacrifice arrangement. The council has ...
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GeoPost UK extends flexible benefits
GeoPost UK is to extend its flexible benefits scheme to its 3,300 weekly-paid staff in June.The firm introduced flex, provided by Vebnet, for its 1,200 monthly-paid staff last October. Its weekly-paid staff are mainly drivers and warehouse workers.Many of the benefits within flex are offered via salary sacrifice including pensions, ...
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Vinci Construction adds to flexible benefits scheme
Vinci Construction UK has added gym discounts, holiday trading, dental and optical discounts, and leave for volunteering to irs flexible benefits scheme, as well as introducing a voluntary benefits scheme.Its flexible benefits scheme, which is provided by Personal Group, was launched in April 2010, and the construction firm added in ...
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Edenred adds cash-back offers to employee discount schemes
Edenred has added 1,400 cash-back offers to its voluntary benefits platform.The new offers join the existing discounted vouchers and re-loadable cards across 50 retail organisations.Employees can register on a dedicated website, tailoring their requirements to fit their lifestyle and interests. The offers can also be passed on to family members.Employers ...
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Arbuthnot Banking Group adds to flexible benefits
?Arbuthnot Banking Group is to add health screening, a wine club, vehicle servicing and a tax return service to its flexible benefits scheme.The perks will be offered to group businesses Arbuthnot Security and Arbuthnot Latham during their enrolment periods in June. It has already added them to flex for its ...
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Case Studies
Case study: Cashing in on staff discounts at Sainsbury's
Lyn O’Dwyer has been a night shift replenisher at Sainsbury’s Purley Way store in Croydon for over two years. She says night shifts give her the chance to attain a healthy worklife balance.When asked what she likes best about working for Sainsbury’s, O’Dwyer says: “My colleagues. I really enjoy working ...
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Case study: Salary sacrifice buoys Severn Trent Water staff
Severn Trent Water introduced its SmartWater benefit in January 2010, which enables employees to pay their water bill through a salary sacrifice arrangement.The company bills about 3.5 million customers throughout the Midlands, a number of whom are its own employees. In the first year of SmartWater, 1,500 of the firm's ...
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Case study: Tasty bonus for McDonald’s employees
McDonald’s gives its 85,000 UK staff an employee discount card as soon as they begin work with the chain.The card offers staff five standard discounts, including a medium extra value meal for £2.99, a breakfast extra value meal for £1.99, or a toasted deli sandwich meal for £2.99. There is ...
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Own-product benefits are a big motivator for staff
If you read nothing else, read this… Many organisations offer their own products or services to staff free of charge or at a discount, with many such employers to be found in the retail sector. These can be offered as core benefits, as well as through incentive and recognition ...
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What does the future hold for flexible benefits?
If you read nothing else, read this… Flexible benefits, as currently known, are evolving and changing shape. The line is blurring between what has been traditionally known as flexible and voluntary benefits schemes. Flexible benefits schemes are covering a wider range of perks, such as pensions and financial ...
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Case study: Employee savings check out at Asda
Asda offers its staff a 10% discount card after three months service. The card can be used in any Asda store in the UK and in any global Walmart, Asda's parent company. Using the card, Asda's 175,000 staff save over £60 million a year.When Asda launched an online voluntary benefits ...
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Aegon UK to enter corporate wrap market
Aegon UK will enter the corporate wrap market in autumn 2011 as it accelerates its plans to focus on the at-retirement and workplace savings markets.The new product, which will be launched with platform specialist Novia, will be offered alongside Aegon's existing range of pensions, investment and protection products.Aegon will begin ...
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Healix International launches medical service for airline staff
Healix International has launched a range of medical services specifically for the airline industry to support airlines and their staff internationally.The medical services provider is focusing on three key areas including crew health, providing airlines’ employees with a 24/7 nurse-led phone service that they can call to speak to a ...
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WPA enhances corporate dental plan
Western Provident Association (WPA) has enhanced its corporate dental plan.Providental, which is available from £8.55 per month for organisations with 50 or more employees, now offers 100% reimbursement for all dental treatment costs incurred as an NHS patient.Rod Bramston managing director of WPA’s private clients, said: “We have designed NHS ...
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Government publishes Finance Bill
The government has published the Finance Bill which will enact measures announced in last week’s Budget report and in the June 2010 Budget.The bill includes a number of measures including: the removal of the requirement to annuitise by the age of 75; the introduction of a universal state pension of ...
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Travelport migrates staff to single pension
?Travelport is migrating its 2,000 UK employees from two existing pension schemes into a single plan and has launched an online benefits portal called My Benefits.The pension changes are intended to simplify provision, reduce annual management charges, and prepare for a smooth transition into auto-enrolment by 2012. Its previous two ...
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KPMG upgrades parental leave and pay provisions
KPMG has revamped the parental leave and pay provisions for its 11,000 UK employees.Its maternity provision, previously structured in four tiers based on length of service, has been changed so any employee who has over 26 weeks’ service at the relevant date will receive full pay for the first 18 ...
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KiddiVouchers renamed Wider Plan
KiddiVouchers has been renamed Wider Plan following its plans to expand to provide a wider range of benefits, including an employee discount scheme, .The organisation will continue to provide childcare vouchers under the brand name KiddiVouchers, but its discount scheme will incorporate discounts from high-street and online retail, travel and ...
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McCarthy and Stone launches corporate wrap
McCarthy and Stone has launched a corporate wrap as its new workplace pensions and savings scheme.Hargreaves Lansdown, the provider of the wrap, has conducted a series of presentations and one-to-one meetings with the builder’s staff. Three-quarters of the members of the firm’s group personal pension (GPP) arrangement have switched to ...