All articles by Jennifer Paterson – Page 93
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Article
Debenhams agrees pension recovery plan
Debenhams is to contribute £8.9 million each year until 2022 to restore two of its pension schemes to a fully funded position.The Debenhams Retirement Scheme and the Debenhams Executive Pension Plan, which closed to future accrual from 31 October 2006, showed a deficit of £57.3 million on 1 September 2012, ...
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Video
Video: Ricky D'Ash: Advice for those new to benefits
Ricky D’Ash, head of compensation and benefits at Equity Insurance Group, discusses the top issues that employers are currently thinking about, including auto-enrolment, the retail distribution review (RDR) and the future of salary sacrifice arrangements.D’Ash was interviewed by Debi O’Donovan, editor of Employee Benefits magazine at Employee Benefits Live, which ...
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Article
ABF reviews pensions ahead of auto-enrolment
Associated British Foods (ABF) has appointed a default fund provider as parts of its pension scheme review ahead of auto-enrolment.From October 2012, the scheme will offer its members flexible target date funds as the default option, which will be managed by investment management firm AllianceBernstein.The international food, ingredients and retail ...
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Case Studies
Serco saves on sickness absence
Global services company Serco Group has saved £1 million in the first year after implementing a new sickness absence strategy.It moved from a system where there was no central understanding of long-term sickness absence to one where absence is actively managed and controlled. The success of the initiative earned Serco ...
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Article
Executive remuneration consultation closes
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills’ (BIS) consultation exercise on revised executive remuneration reporting regulations has closed.The consultation, Directors’ pay: revised remuneration reporting regulations, includes draft regulations setting out the proposed form and content of the director’s remuneration report.The proposals of the report, if enacted, will give shareholders a ...
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Opinion
Professor Sayeed Khan: Should older workers get healthcare perks?
Given that we have a workforce in many sectors that is ageing, organisations are going to have more people with potentially chronic problems that need intervention, some of which will be surgical intervention, some of which medical. Given the state of the NHS, the likelihood of that intervention being done ...
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Article
Engagement Task Force reveals next step
The Employee Engagement Task Force will launch a website, which will include advice, tools and networks, in the next phase of its work around improving the employee engagement of the UK workforce.Speaking during the keynote address at day two of Employee Benefits Live, David MacLeod, co-chair of the task force ...
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Article
Engagement surveys measure benefits ROI
Groupon and Virgin Media are measuring the return on investment (ROI) of their benefits package with employee engagement surveys.The organisations shared the background around these surveys in a session at Employee Benefits Live on 25 September.Groupon has an annual engagement survey called Pulse, as well as monthly focus groups for ...
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Article
Tune in for breaking news at Employee Benefits Live
Europe’s largest reward and benefits conference and exhibition, Employee Benefits Live 2012, begins today at Olympia in London.The Employee Benefits’ team will be reporting live from the event, which runs from 25 to 26 September, so follow us on Twitter at #EBLive for breaking news from the event.Whether looking to ...
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Article
Andy Porter is HR director at TWMA
He has more than 30 years of experience in operational and strategic HR management, and has held senior roles in a wide range of industries, including oil and gas, telecommunications and professionals services.
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Analysis
Wellness days boost health perks
Wellness days in the workplace can be used to communicate and highlight health and wellbeing benefits offered as part of a formal employer-paid package or as flexible or voluntary benefits.Justin Crossland, senior consultant at Towers Watson, says: “These events make employees more aware of health benefi ts and promote a ...
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Article
Three men join Invesco Perpetual
All three join the firm from Standard Life Investments, where Jubb and Millar were multi-asset portfolio managers and Batty was a member of the firm’s strategic research team.
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Article
Only People appoints Simon Belton
Belton’s experience in the industry includes a range of in-house and consulting roles, including: interim head of reward at Midlands Co-operative Society, head of pensions at Spirit Pub Company, international benefit consultant at Thomsons Online Benefits, service delivery manager at Hewitt Associates (now Aon Hewitt) and pensions consultant at KPMG.Anthony ...
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Article
Anneke Heaton moves to Nuffield Health
Heaton’s previous experience in the industry includes: reward and wellbeing manager at IPC, reward manager at the BBC, reward manager at Wolters Kluwer, and compensation and benefits manager at Towers Perrin (now Towers Watson).
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Article
Jane Vivier joins Amadeus
Vivier has eight years’ experience in reward and benefits, most recently as reward and recognition manager at Cancer Research UK.Previous roles include: senior reward manager at the UK Border Agency, reward adviser at Kent County Council and staff services manager at British Airways London Eye.Vivier will be among the leading ...
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Article
Aegon savings role for Andrew Taylor
Taylor joins Aegon UK from Scottish Widows, where he has held various roles over the past two years, including: senior proposition manager – workplace savings platform, senior proposition manager – corporate wrap, and senior proposition development manager.With 24 years’ experience in financial services, Taylor’s previous roles include pension product manager ...
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Article
Louise Phillips moves up at IBM
Her previous role at IBM, which she held for four years, was European HR benefits leader.She has held a range of other roles at IBM since 2003, including Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) HR commercial and engagement consultant and HR engagement manager.
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Case Studies
Barclays raises interest in staff wellbeing
The event is part of the bank’s wellness programme, Living Your Potential.Raewyn Bates, wellness programme co-ordinator at Barclays, says: “We place great importance on the health and wellbeing of employees. A healthy workforce is crucial to the success of our business.”The day included free blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose level ...
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Opinion
Val Stevenson: What are employers doing around stress in the workplace?
Many organisations are turning to prevention rather than reacting to the symptoms of stress and are seeking to support staff who are already affected. This is through the exploration of resilience.This means creating a greater awareness as an individual something we can all benefit from as well as having programmes ...
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Opinion
Ann McCracken: What are employers doing around stress in the workplace?
In our experience at the International Stress Management Association, the response to work-related stress is more reactive than proactive.Some employers are introducing intranet-programmes, running optional stress awareness sessions, open days focusing on wellbeing, and providing massage, physiotherapy and even peer supporters. This may encourage staff to change stress-inducing habits and ...