All articles by Jennifer Paterson – Page 48

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    The Body Shop staff complete charity bike ride

    2013-09-11T10:09:00Z

    A team of employees from The Body Shop completed a 240-mile bike ride from London to Paris in just three days.The team of 23 employees left Croydon on 27 August and reached Portsmouth in the evening to take a ferry to France. They covered the remaining distance from Caen to ...

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    Intermediaries prepared to help with pensions auto-enrolment

    2013-09-11T10:05:00Z

    The vast majority (96%) of payroll administrators and 95% of accountants surveyed anticipate helping employers with their auto-enrolment duties, according to research by The Pensions Regulator (TPR).Its research, Intermediaries’ awareness, understanding and activity relating to workplace pension reforms, which surveyed 580 intermediaries, found that 62% of accountants and 38% of ...

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    PWC adds Hepburn to reward team

    2013-09-11T09:55:00Z

    PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) has appointed Daniel Hepburn (pictured) director in its reward team.He previously spent more than 10 years at law firm Clifford Chance, where he was a partner and head of its employee benefits group.He has advised on employee reward for more than 20 years and has worked with many ...

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    PWC raises partner pay and lowers DB deficit

    2013-09-10T10:45:00Z

    PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) increased its profit for partners from £679,000 in 2012 to £705,000 for the year ended 30 June 2013.The PwC UK Annual report 2013, which was published on 9 September, also disclosed that staff bonuses increased by 4% to £87 million.It also reported that the professional services firm’s defined ...

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    Commission calls on government to tackle low pay

    2013-09-10T10:30:00Z

    The Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission has called on the government to develop a low wage strategy to raise the bottom rungs on the UK pay ladder.In its report, Social mobility: the next steps, the government-appointed commission recommends that the government:Mandate the Low Pay Commission to set out affordable ...

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    Thomson Reuters launches global HR and payroll system

    2013-09-10T10:15:00Z

    Thomson Reuters has launched an HR management and payroll system for 60,000 employees across 100 countries.The system, provided by Workday, has replaced the media and information firm’s in-house system.Thomson Reuters was involved in shaping several of the product’s applications in collaboration with its new provider, including talent management and time ...

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    TPR publishes report on public sector pensions

    2013-09-10T10:00:00Z

    The Pensions Regulator (TPR) has published information and research on current practice in eight categories of public sector pension schemes, ahead of it taking on an expanded role regulating standards of governance and administration for these schemes.From April 2015, TPR will set standards of governance and administration in the local ...

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    NHS staff want improved benefits communications

    2013-09-10T09:45:00Z

    Almost half (44%) of respondents felt that employee benefits communications in the NHS need to be improved, according to research by The Voucher Shop.Its 2013 NHS Employee survey, which was completed by 2,185 NHS staff across the UK, found that only 3% of respondents said benefits communications was excellent.The research ...

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    Transport for London promotes Stephen Field

    2013-09-10T04:07:00Z

    Transport for London (TFL) has promoted Stephen Field to director of pensions and reward.He had previously held the role of head of reward and pensions at TFL since January 2008.Field’s other previous roles in reward include group pensions manager at the Automobile Association, pensions manager at Centrica and pensions administration ...

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    Penguin Random House promotes Neil Morrison

    2013-09-10T04:02:00Z

    Penguin Random House has appointed Neil Morrison group HR director for its UK and international operations following the merger of Penguin and Random House Group in July.He had been group HR director at the Random House Group since September 2008.Morrison’s previous roles include HR manager at Home Retail Group and ...

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    Interview with Karen Gaynor, head of reward, Siemens UK and north-west Europe

    2013-09-09T16:07:00Z

    Her previous roles have been in HR operations, but she moved to reward in 2009. “I was interested in, and got offered the opportunity, of head of reward after having done quite a lot of reward work in one of my business partner roles,” says Gaynor.“It was different, but I ...

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    Total assets of global pensions up by 10%

    2013-09-09T10:57:00Z

    The total assets of the world’s largest 300 pension schemes grew by almost 10% in 2012, compared to around 2% in 2011, to reach USD $14 trillion, according to research by Towers Watson and US investment newspaper Pensions and Investments (P&I).The P&I/Towers Watson global 300 research found that, by region, ...

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    American Express rolls out global health programme

    2013-09-03T15:07:00Z

    The programme covers four areas: nutrition, exercise, healthcare and emotional wellbeing. Breckon Jones, director of health and benefits, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) at American Express, says: “Common health risks are mental wellbeing, obesity and sedentary lifestyle. This is fairly consistent around the world, although there are many cultural ...

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    Analysis

    Is it possible to implement a global health and wellbeing programme?

    2013-09-03T15:05:00Z

    If you read nothing else, read this…Many health and wellbeing issues are common to all countries covered by a programme.The type and prevalence of medical treatments will vary from country to country.Interventions such as healthy eating and physical activity are relevant despite geographical location.Multinational employers should be aware of what ...

  • 2013 Scottish Widows Workplace pensions report
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    New pension savers will save less

    2013-09-01T00:00:00Z

    The amount that the average employee is willing to contribute towards their retirement savings through a pension scheme has dropped by almost a quarter (24%) in the last year, according to research by Scottish Widows.The 2013 Scottish Widows Workplace pensions report, which surveyed more than 5,000 employees, found that, among ...

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    Westfield Health to rebrand

    2013-09-01T00:00:00Z

    EXCLUSIVE: Westfield Health is to rebrand to focus on its almost 100-year history, its not-for-profit status and its employer-paid health cash plan proposition.It will reveal the new brand, which includes a new logo and strapline, ‘Harder Working Health Cover’ at Employee Benefits Live on 25 and 26 September at National ...

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    NAPF reports on pension default fund trends

    2013-09-01T00:00:00Z

    Defined contribution (DC) default funds are reviewing and overhauling their design and governance to deliver good retirement outcomes for members, according to a report by the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).Its Default fund design and governance in DC pensions report focuses on eight employers, including Bank of America, Heineken ...

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    OFT publishes DC pensions market report

    2013-09-01T00:00:00Z

    The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) has published its report on the defined contribution (DC) workplace pensions market.The report, which was launched in January 2013 to investigate whether the workplace DC pension market was working well for employees, concluded that there are problems with the market that may prevent some ...

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    DB plans increasingly use delegated investment providers

    2013-09-01T00:00:00Z

    More than one-third (36%) of respondents have appointed a delegated investment provider for their defined benefit (DB) pension scheme, up from 18% in 2011, according to research by Aon Hewitt.Its Delegated investment survey 2013, which surveyed 275 UK DB pension schemes representing around £130 billion of assets, found that this ...

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    Time constraint major impediment to good DC governance

    2013-09-01T00:00:00Z

    More than three-quarters (76%) of respondents said time constraints are a major impediment to good governance of defined contribution (DC) pension schemes, according to research by the Pensions Management Institute (PMI).Its research, which surveyed 175 PMI members in response to the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) call for evidence ...