Law firm Linklaters has won the award for 'Most effective employee benefits scheme' at this year’s Lawyer HR awards, which took place last night.

The law firm, which employs a 2,500-strong workforce, has made a number of changes to its benefits package in the past year. These include the introduction of new terms group personal pension (GPP) plan, comprising auto-enrolment, a new contribution structure and a salary sacrifice arrangement around pension contributions.

New staff will be automatically enrolled into the pension scheme under the revised contribution structure, with an opt-out period of 30 days from the date they join the firm. This move came well ahead of government reforms, which will require all organisations to auto-enrol staff into a qualifying pension scheme from October 2012.

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Debbie Lovewell-Tuck is a business journalist with 20 years’ experience specialising in pay, reward and HR. She joined Employee Benefits as a reporter in 2003, before becoming editor in 2015. Debbie is also responsible for editorial content across Employee’ Benefits events, including Employee Benefits Live and the Employee Benefits Awards, as well as hosting Employee Benefits’ webinars.View full profile

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