All articles by Robert Crawford – Page 11
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Article?Morrison Utility Services incentivises driver behaviour
Morrison Utility Services has launched an employee incentive scheme to help improve driver behaviour.The utility services provider wants its Green Driver campaign to reduce road accidents and help save up to 7% on its fuel costs.The incentive scheme, provided by Red Letter Days for Business, comprises a driver league table ...
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ArticleNHS to pilot weight loss programme
The NHS has launched a weight loss pilot scheme with Imperial College Hospitals as part of a new wellbeing scheme to keep staff healthy. The £134,000 scheme offers the trust’s 10,000 staff an opportunity to access help from a range of dieticians, clinicians and help from weight-management organisation MoreLife.The pilot ...
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10 Interactive - People moves - AWE appoints Chris Coyne
Chris Coyne has been appointed head of performance and reward by national defence organisation AWE.He will take up the post at the end of April. At AWE, he will be responsible for benefits strategy, structures, incentives and all benefits including pensions. He will also oversee ownership of performance management.Coyne previously ...
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ArticleE.On boosts staff engagement via recognition
E.On has improved its employee engagement and motivation scores by up to eight percentage points as a result of its recognition scheme. Before implementing its Buzz recognition programme, provided by P&MM, in 2013, the energy organisation recorded a staff motivation score of 61%. This has now increased to 69%. In ...
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ArticleHomeServe launches employee discounts and recognition scheme
HomeServe has launched an employee discounts and recognition online portal. The emergency home repairs organisation has introduced the scheme called PeopleServe, which is provided by Reward Gateway, for its 2,500 employees.The scheme offers around 1,000 discounts and 1,500 instant vouchers for employees.The recognition tool allows employees to thank each other ...
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Top tweets from Employee Benefits Connect
Rosie Damarell ??@rosiedamarell: Had a great time at ?#EBconnect today getting to meet lots of new people and finding new reward and benefitsThe Rewarding Co @TheRewardingCo: Really good to see eldercare covered at ?#EBconnect – the loss to the UK economy from those with responsibilities must be huge.Ian Wright ??@ianwrightsheff: ...
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ArticleGovernment to extend pension freedoms
The government plans to remove the restrictions on buying and selling existing annuities from April 2016 to extend its pension freedoms to five million people who have already bought an annuity. The proposed legislation is aimed at allowing pensioners to sell on their annuities, with the returns then allowed to ...
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ArticleTop 15 stories in March 2015
1. Employee Benefits Connect 2015 speaker slides2. JP Morgan extends benefits to employees’ parents3. Sky outsources benefits admin to focus on strategy4. IBM staff can claim damages against DB closure5. DWP begins Fit for Work national roll-out6. How to create an integrated financial wellbeing strategy7. Carlsberg UK revamps employee benefits ...
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ArticleBA staff received 2.7% pay increase in 2014
British Airways non-management staff received an average 2.7% increase in pay during 2014.The details were outlined in its parent company International Airlines Group’s (IAG) 2014 annual report.The airline group, which is also the parent company to Iberia and Vueling, also highlighted a varied rise in salaries across IAG, ranging from ...
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ArticleNaked rebrand boosts bosses' wellbeing
Something for the weekend… One New York design company has found an alternative way to help boost employee health and wellbeing of staff but also get them using the gym.When Viceroy Creative, formerly Mode Design Group, underwent a major rebrand, so did some of its senior employees. And when your ...
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ArticleJohn Lewis staff to share £156m bonus
Around 94,000 John Lewis Partnership employees are to share a bonus payout of £156.2 million.It is the second year in a row that staff at the retail giant, which is owned by employees of John Lewis and Waitrose, have seen the payout reduce.Employees will receive a bonus of 11% of ...
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ArticleEmployers will have to reveal gender pay gap
Employers with more than 250 employees will have to reveal differences in pay between male and female members of staff under a change to a law passing through Parliament.Firms that do not comply with the new rules could face fines of up to £5,000.The government will set the form and ...
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ArticleCo-operative employees to vote on 8.5% pay rise proposal
More than 60,000 Co-operative employees will receive a 8.5% pay rise over the next two years if the proposal is voted in by members of the trade union, Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers (USDAW), in April.The proposal, which was developed by the Co-operative Employers Association with USDAW, would ...
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Article37% of employees cite stress as reason to quit job
Almost two-fifths (37%) of employees have considered quitting their job in the last year because of stress at work, according to research by MetLife Employee Benefits.Nearly half (47%) of respondents find their job stressful on a day-to-day basis, according to the research, which surveyed more than 1,000 full-time employees.And 48% ...
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ArticleSports Direct faces mass legal tussle over bonus claims
Sports Direct is facing a legal tussle with 300 of its employees over claims made by those on zero-hour contracts that they were not eligible to participate in its bonus scheme. While no claim has yet been issued, law firm Leigh Day sent letters in February to the retailer’s legal ...
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ArticleUniversity of Bolton invests £100,000 in motivating staff
The University of Bolton is investing £100,000 to send all 700 employees on a staff development programme to help boost motivation and inform them of the organisation’s strategic aims.The programme, which runs from September 2014 to May 2015, comprises approximately 20 group visits of an average 35 people per trip, ...
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ArticleJoin the Winter School Twitter discussion
The inaugural Employee Benefits Twitter takeover will take place on 10 March in partnership with Johnson Fleming.Benefits professionals will be able to get their all-important questions answered on the Maximising the value of your protection, health and wellbeing benefits Winter School tutorial video by Angela Jones, senior consultant at Johnson ...
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ArticleTop 10 most read stories this week
The most read stories on employeebenefits.co.uk from 26 February to 5 March 2015:1. Facebook plans to build town for staff 2. Future trends unveiled at Employee Benefits Connect 3. Pension Schemes Bill receives Royal Assent 4. How to boost share plan take-up 5. How to create an integrated financial wellbeing ...
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ArticleTechnology causes staff to disengage
How employees engage with technology is the biggest cause of disengagement in the workplace, according to Dave Coplin, chief envisioning officer at Microsoft.Speaking in the closing keynote session titled ’The rise of the humans: how to outsmart the digital deluge’ at Employee Benefits Connect on 4 March, Coplin said that ...
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ArticleWolseley UK to introduce mobile technology for flex
Wolseley UK is looking to implement mobile technology within its flexible benefits scheme to improve its employee engagment levels and take up of benefits. The heating and plumbing organisation is hoping to implement the technology this year so that employees can make flex choices via their mobile and tablet devices.Speaking ...