All articles by System Administrator – Page 44
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Cadbury moves it voluntary benefits online
Cadbury Schweppes has moved its voluntary benefits scheme online to enable it to be easily updated.It has also added retail vouchers, PC discounts and telephone offers to the plan.The food and drink manufacturer hopes that by moving the scheme online in place of issuing a bi-annual paper-based brochure, it will ...
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IT firm Pandi launches flexible benefits to boost staff engagement
Pandi, the IT infrastructure provider, has launched a flexible benefits plan in an effort to boost staff engagement levels.The firm had been disappointed with take-up levels around core benefits, that included death-in-service cover and a Bupa healthcare plan, and put this down to poor communication with its largely field-based employees.It ...
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Nationwide Building Society has a comprehensive flexible benefits scheme
Nationwide Building Society has a comprehensive flexible benefits scheme from which 19,164 staff can select perks.Prior to Nationwide’s takeover of Portman Building Society, around 50% of employees actively selected flexible benefits through the firm’s Choices scheme.The plan has 15 options including environmentally-friendly initiatives such as a carbon offsetting option and ...
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Siemens works hard to communicate its flexible benefits to staff
Siemens places a great deal of importance on how its four-year-old flexible benefits scheme is communicated. Gavin Hayward, head of compensation and benefits at Siemens in the UK, explains: “We have a project team that works on internal communications, and we use some external publicity organisations to help with creating ...
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Stephen Moir extends his skills beyond HR
Stephen Moir, director of people and policy at Cambridgeshire County Council, has built his profile internally by taking on more general management tasks outside HR and externally, via his position as vice president of the Public Sector People Managers' Association (PPMA).As well as being responsible for HR at the council, ...
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IPC in bid to boost health
IPC Media has run a series of health and wealth management sessions for its 1,800 staff to help them improve their wellbeing and better manage their finances.Over the course of a two-week period, the media firm's health and financial benefits providers ran seven on-site workshops for employees and manned stands ...
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Towry Law launches total reward brochure and workshops
Towry Law has launched a total reward brochure, in paper and online formats, and provider workshops in a bid to raise staff awareness of the perks it offers.The brochure brings together details of all the finance firm's benefits in one place, whereas previously they were all promoted individually, potentially causing ...
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BuyingTeam installed software for its flex scheme and did its own communications
When procurement services firm BuyingTeam considered implementing flexible benefits, it began speaking to various consultants and advisers. Ultimately, however, it took the decision to go it alone and install a software solution from Staffcare. Leah Fairman, HR manager, explains: "What the consultants appeared to offer - primarily PR for the ...
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Change in minimum wage rate
The main national minimum wage rate for adults aged 22 years and over has increased from £5.35 to £5.52. There has also been a rise in the rate for 18-to-21 year olds from £4.45 to £4.60 and for 16 to 17 year olds from £3.30 to £3.40. The new rates ...
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Niche Hotels combats high staff turnover with recognition and reward
The leisure sector has earned a reputation for high levels of staff turnover, and when Niche Hotels, a collection of four boutique hotels in Cardiff, the Cotswolds, London and Newcastle, was set up, it was something that co-founder and sales and marketing director Alison Corlett was determined to avoid.She says: ...
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Staff prefer work email for perks communiques
Nearly four-fifths (79%) of workers responding to an online questionnaire prefer information about their benefits to be sent to their work email address, according to research carried out by provider You at Work.The Communications gap research also showed that more than a third of the 1,987 employees (37%) questioned do ...
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Coors consolidates health provision to simplify perks
Coors Brewers is to consolidate its healthcare perks with just one provider, in an effort to make its offering easier for employees to use and potentially deliver some cost savings.From the beginning of this month, Bupa will provide the company's healthcare perks, which include an employee assistance programme (EAP) and ...
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Martin Swinkels joins Hilton Hotels Corporation
Hilton Hotels Corporation has recruited Martin Swinkels as international compensation and benefits manager. The Dutch national joins from the technology firm EMC where he was director of compensation and benefits for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Swinkels said: "I hope to introduce a coherent policy of best practice across ...
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Sara Edwards moves to Liberty
Maybourne Hotel Group's vice president HR, Sara Edwards, is moving to Liberty Group where she will be HR and change director. Edwards is hoping she will be able to help establish the business as a leader in luxury goods retailing. She said: "I'm terribly excited. The chance to build a ...
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Pensions Regulator reviews M&A guidance
The Pensions Regulator is updating its guidance on the use of its powers in regard to key events, such as an organisation's merger or acquisition.During these corporate events, where the security of the employer and the pension scheme could be at risk, the employer voluntarily approaches the Regulator to seek ...
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Taunton School launches part-funded health insurance
Taunton School is offering part-funded health insurance to its 377 employees as part of a wider wellbeing programme.The school introduced the health insurance in September and will pay for the initial module of the plan, which includes consultations and diagnosis, provided the employee pays for module two which covers surgery.The ...
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Account handlers preferred to web tools
Nine-out-of-ten small to medium-sized enterprises prefer the services of a dedicated account manager at their car leasing provider in preference to an online vehicle funding solution.Research entitled Customer service for small fleets, carried out by fleet management firm Network, stated that some 60% of those questioned would like their account ...
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Asda reviews incentive plan
Asda is to review a recognition programme that rewards employee teams for boosting product sales at their store.The incentive programme, which was launched in April, requires teams to nominate a single product that they think will be popular within their local community.Sales of chosen products are then monitored against those ...
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United Biscuits lines up for perfect attendance records
United Biscuits has boosted its attendance levels at its UK biscuit and snack factories following the introduction of an incentive scheme where employees can be entered into a draw to win a car if they do not take any time off sick.The scheme has led to an increase in employee ...