All articles by Robert Crawford – Page 48
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Buyer's guide to corporate gym membership 2013
Organisations are recognising that corporate gym membership can help to produce more engaged employees who tend to be happier and have more energy and motivation in the workplace.Signing up to corporate gym membership can save staff money, especially if it is fully funded by the employer. It can be offered ...
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Buyer's guide to healthcare trusts 2013
A cost-effective alternative to private medical insurance (PMI) is for an employer to provide medical cover for staff through a healthcare trust. This can be particularly beneficial for organisations with more than 500 employees and a medical benefit spend exceeding £250,000 a year.Healthcare trusts, which first appeared in the 1980s, ...
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Line managers too stressed to help staff
Line managers are too stressed and have little time to help employees deal with stress, according to research by health insurer Bupa.The research, which was conducted to support Bupa’s Healthy Minds programme, surveyed 6,000 employees across a range of industries and job titles.It found that more than half (51%) of ...
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David Lloyd Leisure launches corporate gym benefit
David Lloyd Leisure has launched a corporate gym membership called DL Flex.The scheme can be offered by employers to employees through a flexible benefits package, via a salary sacrifice arrangement, as a net pay gym loan deduction or as an employer-paid benefit.The corporate gym membership includes:A session with a personal ...
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Only three hours of productivity a day
Something for the weekend…How much time a day do your employees actually spend working? It seems that the average office worker spends only two hours and 53 minutes a day being productive.According to research by Vouchercloud.com, most of us spend the working day procrastinating, discussing out-of-work activities with colleagues and ...
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Top 10 most read stories this week
The top 10 most read articles on employeebenefits.co.uk from 14-21 November:1. How to measure workplace stress2. QVC reduces group risk costs by 63%3. BT Group expands global pay review process4. Buck Consultants and Wragge & Co launch auto-enrolment initiative5. Britvic recognised for employee engagement 6. Norton Rose Fulbright hosts wellbeing ...
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HMRC offers tax settle opportunity on EFRBS
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has offered employers the opportunity to settle the tax arising on employer-financed retirement benefit schemes (EFRBS).The settlement opportunity is open until 31 December 2013, with enquiries to be settled by 30 June 2014.EFRBSs are discretionary trusts set up by an employer to provide benefits for ...
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Barnett Waddingham launches auto-enrolment website
Barnett Waddingham has launched an auto-enrolment website to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs).The website, which is in partnership with provider Standard Life, also supports the pension consultants’ services already in place for SMEs.Its features include:Tips and a guide for SMEs on auto-enrolment.Animated videos that demonstrate the benefits of the ...
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HMRC wins £300k bonus tax avoidance case
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has won a case that would have avoided nearly £160,000 in tax and national insurance (NI) contributions on an employee’s bonus.The owner of a Cirencester-based pharmacy, LM Ferro, had received advice on how to extract value from the organisation in a tax-efficient manner.Tax advisory firm ...
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Employers experience difficulties with RTI reporting
In September, HMRC published the findings of analysis into disputed pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) charges associated with RTI reporting.More than 44 million individual PAYE records are being reported using RTI, which represents more than 90% of all employment. Under RTI, employers have to send details to HMRC every time they pay an ...
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Southco Manufacturing launches portal
Southco Manufacturing has launched an online benefits portal, which comprises the employer’s voluntary benefits package and a new environmental benefit.The online portal, My Southco Benefits, which is provided by BHSF, includes access to the engineering firm’s employee assistance programme, virtual doctor service, discounts scheme and the new environmental benefit, Green ...
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Bupa launches mental health product
Bupa has launched a product to help employers identify the early signs of mental illness among employees.The product, Healthy Minds, provides early intervention through employee engagement, online self-help programmes and round-the-clock support for employees with mild to moderate psychological disorders, such as stress, anxiety and depression.Employees can also self refer ...
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BT Group expands global pay review process
BT Group has expanded the reach of its global pay review process to include 38,000 employees across 60 countries using software from Talentia. The telecommunications organisation had previously only used the software provider’s web-based package to support and manage the process for management.Stakeholders and managers can now oversee the process ...
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Mayer Brown appoints employment and benefits partner
Mayer Brown has appointed Stefan Martin as a partner in its employment and benefits group.Martin has experience across the full range of employment law, and has been involved in cases in the Employment Tribunal and High Court.He joins from Allen and Overy where he was a partner in the employment ...
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What's in a job title?
Something for the weekend…What a load of jobbledygook! Talent delivery specialists, sorry, recruitment staff, are revamping job titles to make them sound more attractive.In today’s job market, a number of positions have flash names. Research by recruitment website Myjobmatcher.com found a number of ridiculously sounding names for jobs.The wackiest job ...
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Top 10 most read stories this week
The top 10 most read articles on employeebenefits.co.uk from 7-14 November:1. EHRC to investigate maternity discrimination2. Lloyds Banking Group consults on DB pension changes3. Three raises pensions take up to 80%4. Aon Hewitt launches auto-enrolment product 5. The challenges of auto-enrolling weekly-paid employees6. Pension comparison service launched7. Arsenal FC denies ...
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Asda staff to receive £17m festive bonus
Asda is to reward its 180,000 staff with a £17 million festive bonus to thank them for their hard work throughout 2013.The Christmas bonus package includes a £20 Asda gift card, with £5 towards a Christmas party and a free meal.It also includes double discount days on 19 and 20 ...
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ArticlePay rises by 0.8% in September
Average weekly earnings, excluding bonuses, rose by 0.8% when comparing July to September 2013, according to the latest figures by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).Its report, Labour market statistics, November 2013, also found that the average weekly wage, including bonuses, rose by 0.7% during the same three months.In payment ...
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Firefighters strike again over pension proposals
Firefighters across England and Wales are on strike today over the government’s proposed reforms to their pension scheme.It is the fourth strike that members of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) have staged in recent weeks. Firefighters previously went on strike on 25 September, 1 and 4 November, and suspended planned ...
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Arsenal FC denies paying below living wage
Arsenal Football Club has denied that it pays its kitchen staff less than the London living wage.The football club, based in Islington, has been urged by Islington Council to pledge to pay a living wage to all its staff and contractors.Arsenal hires sub-contractors from US-based hospitality group Delaware North Companies, ...