All articles by Nicola Sullivan – Page 66
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Buyer’s guide to absence management systems
Absence management systems can help employers to identify and tackle the causes of employees' sickness, says Nicola SullivanAbsence management systems enable employers to record and monitor incidences of staff absence and identify what action needs to be taken in each case. The overall purpose of these systems is to help ...
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News analysis: Employers concerned about extension of flexible working rights
Small employers are concerned about plans to give more employees the right to request flexible workingThe government's plans to extend the right to request flexible working to an extra 4.5 million people next April have met with a mixed reaction from employers.Small businesses have reacted negatively to the recommendation by ...
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Cost is top priority for fleets
Despite political and business pressures to reduce carbon emissions, fleet managers are more concerned about saving money than being green when procuring vehicles.Of the 2,600 fleet decision-makers who took part in the Masterlease Global research survey half cited cost savings as their top priority.This factor came top of the list ...
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RBS staff given access to CT scanner
The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) has given staff access to a state-of-the-art CT scanner that it gifted to the National Health Service (NHS) and a medical research centre 25% of the time.The bank's arrangement with the Queens Medical Research Institute (QMRI) and NHS Lothian to buy the 320-multi-detector scanner ...
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Eversheds launches bikes for work scheme to promote wellbeing
Eversheds has launched a cycle to work scheme to boost its green credentials and promote healthy living among its workforce.The law firm set the scheme live in May, after employees expressed an interest in cycling to work. Around 2,700 of the firm's 3,600 staff members are eligible to take part ...
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Thomas Cook surveys staff on training programmes
Thomas Cook has surveyed employees in a bid to maximise the effectiveness of their management practices and training programmes.More than 2,700 employees working in the UK and abroad for Thomas Cook's holiday division were asked what they thought of the guidance provided by managers and how effective training and development ...
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HSBC's remuneration package deemed excessive
HSBC’s proposed new remuneration package for directors is set to incur the wrath of shareholders at the bank’s annual general meeting on Friday.The scheme which offers generous annual bonuses and long-term incentives is expected to reward executives with a £100 million pay out over the next three years.Pirc, which provides ...
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City bonuses at all-time high despite economic downturn
Trade union GMB have criticised record city bonuses of £12.6 billion for the first three month †as being unreflective of the uncertain economic climate and "defy economic gravity".Figures from the Office of National Statistics show that the average weekly bonuses given to 1.04 million financial workers in the UK have ...
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Combined Benefit Services closes
Voluntary benefits provider, Combined Benefits Services (CBS), has closed with effect from 16 May 2008.Discounts available through its free lifestyle benefits option, MyChoices, can no longer be accessed, but any orders placed through the scheme before 16 May will be processed by discount suppliers. Employees who have purchased a MyChoicesExtra ...
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JLT Benefit Solutions to launch online benefits platform
JLT Benefits Solutions (JLT) is to launch an online benefits platform to provide employers web-based communication and benefits management.The online platform will deliver advice, as well as procurement and administration services. The technology will also be able to be licensed and implemented into employer organisations and product providers.Duncan Howarth, managing ...
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Employees value extended paid sick leave over private cancer treatment
Employees would prefer to be given extended paid sick leave rather than funding for private treatment if they were diagnosed with cancer.Of the 1,300 working adults surveyed for Aon Consulting's Employment benefits survey 2008, 49% said they would rather receive extended paid sick leave, which allowed them to return to ...
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Extra rights for agency and temporary workers
The government has announced that agency and temporary workers will be given increased rights after a deal was struck with the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the Confederation of British Industry (CBI).Employers will have to treat agency workers the same as permanent staff after 12 weeks on the job, meaning ...
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Red Letter Days launches a new corporate events division
Red Letter Days, the experience company, has launched a new corporate events division to expand the motivation, reward and recognition services it offers companies.In partnership with MotivAction Group, Red Letter Days, now provides corporate customers family fun days, team building days, conferences, theme evenings and overseas incentives.Heather Rogers director of ...
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Marks and Spencer slashes bonuses despite £1bn profit
Marks and Spencer has axed bonuses for senior management and reduced them for other staff this year despite making profits of more than £1bn.The retailer has axed all bonuses for top management staff, meaning chief executive Sir Stuart Rose will be missing out on his cash reward, which was £2.6 ...
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Flexible working requests to be extended to extra 4.5 million parents
An extra 4.5 million parents in the UK are set to gain the right to request flexible working, after the publication of the government's independent review.Business secretary John Hutton has accepted recommendations made in the review conducted by Imelda Walsh, HR director at Sainsbury's, to extend the right to request ...
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Public sector hit by highest absence
Employee absence levels in public sector organisations are 55% higher than those experienced by the private sector employers.According to the latest annual Confederation of British Industry/Axa Absence Survey, average absence levels across the public sector stood at nine days per employee for 2007, compared to 5.8 days in the private ...
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Unum launches new group income protection service
Disability insurer Unum has launched a new service to help employers manage their sickness absence costs and keep group income protection (GIP) premiums to a minimum.Premier, an enhanced version of Unum's Active Key Account Management service, is now available for the insurer's GIP clients. Premier provides vocational rehabilitation support before ...
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Novae Group launches group self invested personal pension (Sipp)
Specialist insurance firm Novae Group has launched a group self invested pension plan (Sipp) in an effort to provide its workforce with greater control over their pension investments and to promote equity participation.The Sipp has received a 10% take up by employees who are keen to maximise tax breaks by ...
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TD Waterhouse boosts flexible benefits with five new benefits
TD Waterhouse has bolstered its flexible benefits programme by adding five extra benefits in order to improve employee wellbeing, offer financial protection and maximise tax efficiency.†After the annual review of its flex programme, devised by Aon Consulting, the discount brokerage group has introduced a range of benefits that include long ...
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Manufacturers call for delay on the extension of flexible working
The manufacturers' organisation EEF †has called upon the government to delay plans to extend the right to work flexibly until employers have adjusted to current legislation.The government commissioned the Walsh Review to look at whether flexible working should be extended to parents of children older than six. The findings of ...