All articles by Jennifer Paterson – Page 164
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Churcher joins Abbott
Abbott Laboratories has appointed James Churcher pensions manager. He will take up his new role in January.Churcher has been pensions manager at the Telegraph Media Group since 2006. Before that, he was UK pensions manager at Brambles Group, and group pensions manager at Amersham Health.Churcher said: “It will be fun ...
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Scapa Group appoints Mercer to de-risk defined benefit pensions
The trustee of the Scapa Group’s pension schemes has appointed Mercer to provide investment services including de-risking for its two defined benefit (DB) schemes.The global adhesive tape manufacturer’s schemes have a combined fund value of around £80 million.Before undertaking a complex investment and liability hedging review, Scapa’s trustee evaluated the ...
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Staff engagement linked to growing reward perception gap
Employee engagement levels have slipped back to lower than pre-recession levels due to a growing ‘reward perception gap’.Mercer's Employee Rewards, Benefits and Savings survey, which compiled responses from 79 UK organisations and 1,000 employees, found a striking disconnect between employers and employees on the perception and value of their organisation’s ...
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Brunel University promotes workplace fitness
More Energy, the fitness centre based at Brunel University, held a Green Travel Day to encourage its staff, students and the general public to improve their carbon footprint, become more environmentally friendly and be healthier.One of Brunel University's aims is to promote the health aspects of walking or cycling to ...
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Educating scheme members top pensions communication issue
Educating pension scheme members about defined contribution (DC) pension schemes and investments was voted the biggest pensions communications issue for 2011 according to a poll by Shilling Communication.Building trust and confidence in pensions, chosen by 32% of respondents, was the second most important topic, followed by communication of legislative changes ...
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The Work Foundation research: Align employees' priorities with benefits
A deeper understanding of individual employee's priorities and needs may afford employers a degree of scope to change formal employee benefits arrangements as long as these do not alter the core component of the employment deal.Understanding the Deal, the fourth report in the Future of HR series by The Work ...
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Tesco gives staff Christmas perks worth £55 million
Tesco is giving its 280,000 UK staff Christmas benefits worth £55 million as a thank you.Each employee will receive up to £20 in vouchers as well as a booklet containing exclusive money-off vouchers worth a further £120.The retailer is also giving an additional day’s holiday to all employees which represents ...
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Employers forecast average pay increases of 2.5%
Nearly half (46%) of private sector and 13% of public sector employers reported pay freezes last year.The Personnel Rewards Survey by Croner Reward, which polled 400 organisations and 250 personnel professionals, also revealed that, of those that did see an increase, the average award was 2%. For the coming year, ...
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WPA launches NHS supplementary insurance plan
Health insurance provider WPA has launched an NHS supplementary insurance plan that employers can offer staff to help pay for extras.Its NHS Top-up plan offers premiums starting at 92p per employee per week and cash back levels up to 100%.The benefits include: optical and dental, NHS car parking, top-up cancer ...
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Lorica adds roadside assistance to flexible benefits
Lorica is adding a roadside assistance and recovery service to its flexible benefits package.The agreement between Lorica and Mondial Assistance builds on the existing partnership between the two firms, including the offering of ‘Mondial Travel Select’ product to Lorica clients earlier this year.‘Mondial Motor Select’ includes national recovery, temporary vehicle ...
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Hitachi Consulting launches harmonised pension plan and flex scheme
Hitachi Consulting has merged two pension plans and introduced a new platform to manage its employee benefits.The Benpal platform, provided by JLT Benefit Solutions, uses a variety of channels to communicate and engage with employees, including presentations and online media engagement from emails to SMS text messaging.Anthea Carter-Savigear, HR director ...
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Employees see pensions as the best retirement saving tool
Staff increasingly see pensions as the best way to save for retirement and as the most important employee benefit employers can offer, but they have become less confident their pension will deliver.According to the National Association of Pension Funds’ (NAPF) Workplace Pensions Survey 2010, 44% of employees said pensions were ...
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NHS launches tool to improve staff health and wellbeing
The NHS has launched a new online resource to improve employee health and wellbeing.The resource, which is called ‘NHS well-being at work’, was developed by NHS Employers and is designed to support organisations working in the NHS in reducing staff sickness and absence.Sir David Nicholson, chief executive at the NHS, ...
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Nest Corporation confirms long-term contracts for scheme and fund administration
Nest Corporation has confirmed its long-term contract with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for the administration of the pension scheme until 30 June 2020, with the option to extend for up to five years beyond then.The trustee body of the national employment savings trust (Nest) has also confirmed the 10-year fund ...
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CIPD conference 2010: Preparing employers for changes to the pensions landscape
“Pensions is a supertanker and we all have to start to steer it in the right direction,” said Jane Vass, who leads the private sector team at Age UK, during a session called ‘A new age for retirement and pensions’ at the 2010 CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition.In the wake ...
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CIPD conference 2010: Astellas Pharmaceuticals focuses on total reward
Astellas Pharmaceuticals has launched a number of total reward initiatives around wellbeing, recognition and flexible working for its 15,000 global employees.Mark Goodlake, senior director in the European HQ of Astellas Pharmaceuticals, spoke about the new initiatives at a session called ‘The pay, performance and engagement equation’ at the 2010 CIPD ...
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CIPD conference 2010: The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency reduces cost of absence
Since focusing on its health and wellbeing offerings, the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) has reduced its absence management costs by £5 million and decreased its average working days lost from 14 to 7.4.In 2005 the DVLA, which is part of the Department of Transport, was criticised for having ...
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CIPD conference 2010: Sega Europe reduces sickness absence levels
Sega Europe has reduced its sickness absence levels from 8% to 2.5% since introducing a variety of health and wellbeing measures.While the video game maker had a record of very low sickness absence levels (0.5%) among its 560 permanent staff in the UK, Spain, France, Germany, Holland and Australia, its ...
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CIPD Conference 2010: RSA increases employee engagement
Levels of employee engagement are up to 58% in 2010 at RSA Insurance Group, according to an internal survey conducted by Gallup.This is up from 45% in 2009 and 33% in 2008.During a session ‘Reinventing leadership to drive a culture of engagement’ at the 2010 CIPD Annual Conference and Exhibition, ...
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Inchscape Fleet Solutions adds health screening programme
Inchcape Fleet Solutions has added a health screening programme to the range of health benefits it has rolled out in 2010.All 170 employees have access to the programme to encourage better health and wellness practices.The other new offerings include: healthcare cash plans through Health Shield, fruit on Wednesdays, a three-hour ...