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Employee Benefits Health & Wellbeing Senate 2008, London
To view a presentation from the Health & Wellbeing Senate which was run by Employee Benefits magazine and held in London on 2 April 2008, please click on the 'Download' link next to the speaker name below.The role of employee engagement in promoting wellbeing, increasing productivity.Dr Olivia Carlton, head of ...
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The Health & Wellbeing Senate
2 April 2008Organised by Employee Benefits MagazineNOW FULLY BOOKEDEmployee health and wellbeing is a key business strategy as employers strive to increase productivity and drive down workplace absence. A well workforce is an energetic, engaged one. To match this, current thinking on workplace health and wellbeing is changing and is ...
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Manslaughter laws loom
Employers have been urged to make sure that their fleet policies and practices comply with the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Act 2007, which comes into force on 6 April 2008. The new legislation will make it easier for employers to be prosecuted in the event of fatal accidents involving ...
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Financial education supplement
Otto Thoresen on his review into generic financial advice Focus on delivery as much as cost in delivering financial educationModelling tools help staff to understand perksTax break around pensions advice divides opinionSponsor's commentFinancial education is such an important issue that the government last year commissioned Otto Thoresen to review the ...
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Clarks reviews fleet
Clarkes reviews fleetShoe manufacturer Clarks International is planning a "root and branch" review of its company fleet scheme to ensure it is consistent with company policies on the environment, and health and safety.The firm also wants to benchmark its traditional company car and cash allowance car schemes against those offered ...
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Case study: Siemens uses modelling tools for pension education
Technology giant Siemens made extensive use of modelling tools last year when it moved from an array of final salary pension schemes to a defined contribution pension plan and took steps to standardise the way pension contributions were calculated.The change affected around 6,000 of Siemens UK's workforce, which numbers over ...
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Welcome flexes car options
Welcome Financial Services is launching a cash allowance scheme for senior staff who are eligible for company cars and introducing an option for other drivers to trade up or down model grades, both through its flexible benefits scheme.It is also introducing holiday trading into its flex scheme so staff can ...
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Tax break around pensions advice divides opinion
The tax break on independent pensions advice worth up to £150 per employee a year may seem appealing, but does it go far enough, asks Stephanie SpicerStaff are increasingly looking to their employers to provide them with information about their pension scheme. However, communicating the way a pension works is ...
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Confessions of a Benefits Manager
Candid: Big Bad Boss has been whisked away to work on a special mentoring project in the US. I don't know who thought that one up, because they must be mad. What Big Bad Boss knows about mentoring could be summarised in one very short sentence: zero. His idea of ...
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Taking an objective view of retirement
A lawyer who tried to sue the firm of solicitors of which he was a partner for breaching age discrimination laws after being forced to retire at the age of 65 years, has lost his case as the law firm was able to objectively justify its reasons for enforcing retirement.Under ...
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Yahoo uses web to make pension more user-friendly
Yahoo is giving staff the chance to sign up for its group personal pension (GPP) online and make alterations to their contribution rates as and when they want.It has also launched a pensions modeller to help its 800 UK employees increase their understanding of the scheme.Staff can log onto the ...
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New perks at Fortnum
Fortnum & Mason has implemented a new package of voluntary benefits to support staff on lower salaries. The scheme, provided by Asperity, includes retail vouchers and discounts on home and car insurance, mobile phones and broadband. It is being communicated online and via a brochure distributed to the store's 450 ...
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Flexibility on trial
Sharon Coleman, the mother of a disabled son, has successfully claimed that she was not given the same degree of flexible working by her employer as other members of staff with non-disabled children in the initial stages of a case in the European Court of Justice.The Advocate-General has agreed that ...
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Flex switch at Southern
Southern Housing Group has switched flexible benefits providers following an in-house employee survey and a tendering process.The group previously used Xafinity Consulting with a platform from a third-party provider, but it is now using Thomsons Online Benefits.The housing group, which offers holiday trading, critical illness cover, life assurance and childcare ...
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Pay parity for finance jobs
The salary levels of financial directors, tax managers and payroll managers working in small to-medium-sized UK organisations differ little from those in larger firms.Financial directors and chief financial officers with more than 15 years' experience and working for organisations with 250 staff or fewer earn average salaries in excess of ...
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Employers fail to explain full value of perks to staff
Employers are failing to properly communicate the value of their benefits packages to staff. So while almost two-thirds (63%) of employers say that they tell their staff the value of their total benefits package, only just over a third of employees (39%) believe that they receive this information, according to ...
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Coors launches total reward statements
Coors Brewers is to introduce total reward statements and has added a pensions salary sacrifice arrangement to its flexible benefits scheme.The salary sacrifice, which applies to the company's group personal pension (GPP), was introduced after feedback from its staff survey, The Big Listen, carried out last year.Employees were able to ...
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Tax rules clarification due expected
Benefits experts hope that the tax rules around tax-free health screening and authorised mileage allowance payment (Amap) rates will be clarified in the Budget on 12 March.Last August, new tax rules concerning health screening came into force, making the perk taxable as a benefit-in-kind, unless employers pay for it for ...
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Chris Wilson leaves Oracle
Oracle's benefits director for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Chris Wilson, has left his position to start up a new consultancy firm called Rewarding People. Wilson, who had worked at Oracle for the past 10 years, said: "It is time to move on to a new environment. I think that ...
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Case Studies
Case study: Unilever
Case study: Unilever sets clear objectives for planUnilever UK, which closed its final salary pension scheme to new employees in January 2008, has clear objectives for the plan.At the same time, it also reduced the minimum amount by which it increases pensions in payment from a 5% cap to 3%. ...