News – Page 73

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    Jaguar Land Rover employees support environmental issues in Kenya

    2010-12-15T09:49:00Z

    Jaguar Land Rover employees have participated in an environmental support initiative in Kenya as part of the firm’s employee engagement programme.The scheme saw 11 employees spend two weeks providing support for Earthwatch scientists studying the endangered Grevy’s Zebra.Earthwatch, the environmental charity, surveyed the employees at the end of the programme ...

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    Shilling Communication staff support charity in Nepal

    2010-12-14T10:18:34Z

    Employees from Shilling Communication have returned home from a charity project in Nepal.The staff spent 10 days working with international anti-poverty agency ActionAid building houses for Nepalese people freed from Kamaiya, a traditional system of bonded labour in Southern Nepal.Kevin Shilling, chief executive officer at Shilling Communication, said: “[Corporate] social ...

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    Insurance employees raise money for South African village

    2010-12-09T10:48:49Z

    Employees from insurance providers Rias, Ageas Insurance and Fortis Life have helped to raise more than £50,000 towards building a children’s crËche in the village of Luphisi in South Africa.The ‘Fortissimos’ team took part in the final of the 2010 Times Leadership Challenge, along with teams from Innocent and TK ...

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    Groupama Insurance's employees volunteer at primary school

    2010-12-07T10:57:23Z

    Groupama Insurance's employees have taken part in a national campaign to educate children about healthy eating.As part of Groupama’s Business in the Community pledge, 16 volunteers visited Cardwell Primary School in Woolwich to promote healthy eating among 120 pupils.Throughout the day, Groupama employees and pupils planted a vegetable and herb ...

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    V launches volunteering tool for employers

    2010-12-03T10:40:00Z

    Independent charity, v, has launched a web-based tool to enable employers to offer, implement and measure volunteering opportunities to staff.Key features of its Volunteering Works tool include built-in social marketing for employees to share their experiences, and real-time reporting to enable HR managers to set targets for the volunteering programme ...

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    Payroll-giving donations fall

    2010-11-30T10:21:48Z

    The proportion of employees donating to a payroll-giving scheme has seen a 12% decline, according to a report from Equiniti ICS.The HR and payroll services provider also found there has been a decline in donations of up to 50% since September 2008, coinciding with the recession.Alan Foley, director of Equiniti ...

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    Fair care portal offers charity giving option

    2010-11-29T09:00:00Z

    Fair Care is to add a payroll-giving scheme to its voluntary benefits portal, Benefit Select, early next year once it has been granted HM Revenue and Customs’ approval.Staff will be able to save to a charity bank by making regular or ad-hoc payments to charities of their choice. The payments ...

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    Smiths News extends payroll giving scheme

    2010-11-29T09:00:00Z

    Smiths News is extending its payroll-giving scheme to its 400 Bertram Books employees.The scheme, provided by Workplace Giving UK, is now available to 5,300 staff at the newspaper and magazine wholesaler. Kerrie Colford, community programme manager at Smiths News, said: "We wanted to provide staff with a way to give ...

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    The Big Question: What festive rewards are you offering employees this year?

    2010-11-29T00:00:00Z

    Louise McCabe, head of corporate responsibility at Asos.com:The weeks leading up to Christmas are a critical trading period for Asos, with many departments working atpeak capacity.As we near the holidays, the pressure in head office eases off and we are able to treat and thank our staff with some traditional ...

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    Buyer's guide to long-service awards

    2010-11-29T00:00:00Z

    Key factsWhat are long-service awards?These are awards designed to recognise an employee's loyalty and commitment over anything from one to 40-plus years. Awards can be in the form of cash, but non-cash gifts receive more favourable tax treatment.Where can employers get more information?More information about the tax treatment of long-service ...

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    Staff should not expect lavish festive workplace celebrations

    2010-11-26T10:16:25Z

    In this age of austerity employees may be wise not to expect much from festive workplace traditions such as the Christmas party.Research conducted by shopping website VoucherCodes.co.uk found that despite all their hard work, less than half (46%) of employees will be treated to a work Christmas shindig this year.The ...

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    Staff engagement linked to growing reward perception gap

    2010-11-25T10:36:16Z

    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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    The Work Foundation research: Align employees' priorities with benefits

    2010-11-23T11:37:22Z

    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

    2010-11-19T11:21:24Z

    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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    Siemens rewards employees with one-off special payment

    2010-11-18T10:51:00Z

    Siemens intends to award its employees for their performance during the financial and economic crisis with a one-off special payment.A total of €310 million (£267 million) will be paid out to the company’s worldwide workforce.Peter Loscher, president and chief executive officer at Siemens, said: “The company came through the crisis ...

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    Employers forecast average pay increases of 2.5%

    2010-11-18T10:19:18Z

    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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    Asda staff to receive £16m festive bonus

    2010-11-12T11:41:09Z

    Asda is to present employees with a £16 million festive bonus to thank them for their hard work throughout 2010.The ‘Christmas Thank You’ package includes a £20 Asda gift card, a free festive meal and a 20% discount on a range of Asda products.The package will be available to each ...

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    Dinamiks launches online employee performance management system

    2010-11-12T11:12:10Z

    Dinamiks has launched an online employee performance management system.The system, called Dinamiks, includes two modules: competencies and values.The competencies module highlights where training is required, while values aligns staff, through behaviour change, to what the brand of their employer organisation represents and how it is perceived.Shirley Barnes, client relationship director ...

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    Killing classes to take place this weekend

    2010-11-11T17:29:03Z

    ‘Killing classes’ will take place in Slough this weekend for civilians who want to learn military and police close combat techniques.Reality fighting expert Tim Larkin has spent 20 years running close combat training programmes and has trained senior executives at Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Credit Suisse.The Target Focus Training ...

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    CIPD Conference 2010: RSA increases employee engagement

    2010-11-10T13:58:42Z

    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, ...