All articles by Nicola Sullivan – Page 3
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Employee benefits specialist of the year
WINNERFrancis O’Mahony, head of employee share plans and share registration, BTFrancis O’Mahony was voted this year’s Employee Benefits Specialist of the Year because of his pioneering work on workplace savings and dedication to financial education at BT. This year, BT took the award for ‘Most effective strategy to encourage workplace ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Employee benefits professional of the year
WINNER Debra Corey, group compensation and benefits director, Merlin EntertainmentsDebra Corey is a much-admired, charismatic and highly respected figure in the employee benefits world. Before joining Merlin Entertainments, she had built up a high profile in reward by taking on the challenges of senior roles at a number of well-known ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Grand Prix
WINNERMcDonald's RestaurantsMcDonald's Restaurants was voted winner of this year's Grand Prix award because of its textbook approach to aligning its reward strategy with the needs of the business and its effective development of an employee brand.The organisation reduced staff turnover and increased sales significantly after discovering a strong correlation between ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective healthcare and wellbeing strategy for employers with more than 1,000 staff
WINNERZurich Insurance, Zurich WellbeingThis entrant not only introduced a raft of measures tailored to address the needs of its workforce, but it also took significant steps to improve employee engagement scores on health and wellbeing.The insurance firm’s health and wellbeing campaign, branded Zurich Wellbeing, was launched in June 2011 and ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective healthcare and wellbeing strategy for employers with fewer than 1,000 staff
WINNERCapital One, Your Health MattersCapital One revamped its health and wellbeing provision for staff with a raft of measures designed to improve fitness, wellbeing and work-life balance.In January 2011, it opened an on-site gym called The Core at its head office in Nottingham. The judges were particularly impressed that employees ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective benefits communications strategy for employers with more than 5,000 staff
WINNERKraft Foods, Simply Rewards, entered by BenefexKraft Foods’ communications strategy was key to successfully integrating reward and benefits across the business after its acquisition of Cadbury.Kraft and Cadbury were coming from different standpoints, cultures and communication styles, so it was essential for communication to achieve parity across the workforce and ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective benefits communications strategy for employers with fewer than 5,000 staff
WINNERBromford, Bromford RewardsThis entrant used a multi-faceted communications strategy to promote its retail discount scheme, Bromford Rewards, which was introduced following employee feedback. The company involved its group of employee representatives in developing the project as part of efforts to ensure it reached all sections of the workforce.The judges noted ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective alignment of reward strategy to business strategy for organisations with more than 1,000 employees
WINNERMcDonald’s RestaurantsThis entrant significantly reduced staff turnover and increased sales after successfully linking its reward strategy to the needs of the business. The fast food chain discovered a correlation between employee engagement and business performance. For example, in restaurants where staff were engaged, sales were on average 28% higher and ...
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Employee Benefits Awards 2012: Most effective alignment of reward strategy to business strategy for organisations with fewer than 1,000 employees
WINNERBarbon Insurance GroupThis business was formed in difficult circumstances in 2008. Not only did it have to deal with the fall-out from the financial collapse of its parent company and a decline in profits, but staff turnover was high and increasing, and low levels of morale were contributing to rising ...
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Top tips for fleet risk management programmes
If you read nothing else, read this… Reducing fleet risk can reduce operating costs, improve fuel efficiency and cut insurance claims. Employers need to check employees’ driving licences regularly. Telematics technology can be used to monitor driver behaviour, including speed, distance and unsafe manoeuvres.Case study: Osborne cuts fleet insurance costsConstruction ...
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Drivers see value in car salary sacrifice
EXCLUSIVE: Drivers gave low cost as the number one reason for deciding to acquire a car through a salary sacrifice scheme, according to research by fleet provider Tusker.Its research, which surveyed 1,000 company car drivers, found that 91% of respondents would recommend a salary sacrifice car scheme to a colleague.More ...
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Bandai UK warehouse employs cat as security guard
Millie is not the cat that got the cream, but the one who got the job and the competitive reward package.The Bengal cat has been hired as a security guard at the Bandai UK toy warehouse in Southampton. Having put her paw to paper contract, Millie will be paid in ...
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DHL Supply Chain moves to shared services HR model
DHL Supply Chain is moving towards a share services model for HR that will make its administration of reward more efficient and cost effective.The organisation, which is a division of Deutsche Post DHL, will set up a centralised HR team next door to its head office in Milton Keynes towards ...
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Derbyshire County Council consolidates additional voluntary contribution pensions
Derbyshire County Council Pension Fund has consolidated its additional voluntary contribution (AVC) pension scheme arrangements as part of efforts to boost take-up of AVCs.The council, which previously had three AVC plans, has retained its arrangement with Prudential.AVCs offer pension scheme members a cost-effective, tax-efficient way to increase their pension savings. ...
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Job vacancies for zombies
News that there are vacancies for zombies to work at a haunted manor house brings a whole new meaning to being stuck in a dead-end job.The experience website Wish.co.uk wants to hire the scary recruits to battle with guests visiting its Zombie Manor House near Manchester.And, according to the job ...
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Doctors on strike after dispute over pensions
Doctors are on strike today (June 21) following a dispute over pensions.The British Medical Association (BMA) said this was the first incident of industrial action taken by its members (who are doctors) in almost 40 years.The government wants doctors to contribute more towards the cost of their pensions and retire ...
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Business secretary Vince Cable announces reforms for executive pay
Business secretary Vince Cable has announced comprehensive reforms for company directors’ remuneration, including a binding vote for shareholders on pay policy and exit payments.Cable’s package of measures aims to address corporate governance failures by empowering shareholders to engage effectively about decisions on pay.The reforms will be introduced under the Enterprise ...
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EXCLUSIVE: Nice Content launches to provide social media training for employees
A business called Nice Content has been launched to provide social media training for employees.The service aims to help employers ensure their employees have the right skills to manage social media effectively. This in turn can help employees to make the most of social media sites like Twitter for personal ...
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OECD report: Increasing retirement ages and expanding private pension coverage is essential
Governments will need to increase retirement ages gradually to address increasing life expectancy in order to ensure that their national pension systems are both affordable and adequate, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).The Pensions outlook report 2012 said that over the next 50 ...
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Workplace pensions will play a key role in plugging savings gap
Workplace pension provision will play a key role in closing Britain’s chronic savings gap according to research by the Association of British Insurers (ABI).Time to act: Tackling our savings problem and building our future showed that increasing an annual pension contribution from 8% to 12% can increase a pension pot ...