All articles by System Administrator – Page 57
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Cars and fleet - definition - Contract hire
Contract hire is where a company hires a car from a car leasing company for a determined period of time and for an agreed monthly cost, and the car leasing company deals with the fleet administration.Contract hire leasing schemes are often thought to remove the responsibility of running the fleet ...
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One Stop Stores makes move towards green cars
Retailer One Stop Stores hopes to move two-thirds of its company car drivers into low-emission vehicles within 12 months.To encourage staff to make this move, it has offered its 160 contract hire drivers a far greater choice of low-emission cars.It is also making sure that staff are aware of the ...
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Childcare - definitions - Emergency childcare
Employers are increasingly providing emergency childcare. This can be as basic as providing staff with access to telephone numbers for nurseries through an employee assistance programme, right through to providing access to a nursery.Providing emergency child care can help to reduce absence or leave being taken at short notice.Providing access ...
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Childcare - definitions - On-site nurseries
On-site workplace nursery schemes are supplied by employers to offer working parents another affordable childcare option. Child care vouchers may be used to pay for this facility.Because of the capital expenditure involved in providing onsite child care nurseries, it is an option that tends to be more suitable for larger ...
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Childcare - definitions - Childcare vouchers
Childcare vouchers are a flexible and tax-efficient way to cover child care costs for the employee.Employees can agree to sacrifice up to £55 a week or up to £243 a month from their pre-tax salary for vouchers redeemable at any approved childcare provider. The employee makes tax and national insurance ...
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Direct Communications uses online fleet risk tools to improve safety
Walkie-talkie supplier Direct Communications has used online fleet risk tools to improve safety, and to reduce the number of accidents and the cost of insurance.It needed to improve standards after two company cars were written off and four others were involved in incidents in 2005.Fleet manager, Gavin Bailey, explains: "The ...
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Financial education - definition - Worksite marketing
This is another way of providing staff with access to information about financial products. This is where providers sell their products through the workplace directly to staff. A number do so through voluntary benefits schemes, for which employers pay an annual subscription fee.
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Pensions - definitions - Group personal pension (GPP)
A group personal pension is when an employer makes an arrangement with one pension provider or financial adviser to offer personal pensions to a group of employees. A GPP is a contract-based defined contribution scheme. Each employee has a separate contract with the pension provider or adviser, but the contributions ...
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In-laws can be relatives under extended Flexible Working regulations
The definition of relative under the Flexible Working (Eligibility, Complaints and Remedies) Regulations 2002 has been extended to include carers' son-in-laws and daughter-in-laws.The regulations, which were extended to offer the right to request flexible working to carers of adults in April this year, originally omitted both sons and daughters-in-law from ...
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Employee Benefits/HSA Healthcare Research 2007
Key findingsThe PackageSickness absenceAttitudesCostsSize of organisationSponsor's comment: Prevention as well as cureWhile employers are increasing the number of healthcare benefits being offered to staff, a fifth of our respondents do not know how much they spend on healthcare and only 5% calculate their return on investment.While it is accepted that ...
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Confessions of a benefits manager
Candid: You can call me a jobsworth if you like, but I really resent doing stuff that isn’t my responsibility. Take international assignments. In theory, this is no longer anything to do with me. OK, so about a hundred years ago (well, nearly), I did work on the international assignment ...
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McAlpine offers staff access to childcare services
Alfred McAlpine has launched a service to give its 10,000 employees access to emergency care for both child and elderly dependants with the aim of enabling them to balance work-life commitments.Employees must register to use the eldercare service and undergo an assessment of their elderly dependant's needs, at a cost ...
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Conchango offers its staff Amaps
Business and technology consultancy Conchango ditched its company car scheme, after it became too costly and complex.The Egham-based company, which employs 300 people in the UK, now offers authorised mileage allowances for staff (Amaps). Mike Altendorf, CEO at Conchango UK, says: "We moved to this current model from the fleet ...
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More than half of organisations are unprepared for proposed manslaughter bill
Just over half (51%) of organisations are not prepared for the Corporate Manslaughter and Corporate Homicide Bill, yet over a third (38%) think that it will affect them when it comes into force. The Bill is due to come into effect from 1 July.A further 48% that are aware of ...
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JVC switches to green cars
JVC has changed its contract hire provider to encourage more of its 120 fleet drivers to use environmentally-friendly cars.Its new provider, Tuskerdirect, offers cars that emit no more than 169g of carbon dioxide per kilometre, which meets the requirements of the electronic firm's environmental policy. An online tool enables JVC's ...
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Vigilance needed when vetting overseas driving licences
Employers should carefully check the driving licences of foreign staff who are eligible for company cars in the UK or they may risk prosecution if these are subsequently found to be invalid.Many foreign drivers are thought to be on the roads illegally because employers have no robust procedures to check ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2007: responsibility & communication
Not too long ago dedicated compensation and benefits roles were few and far between. However, the area has developed into something of an HR specialism in recent years. Our research bears this out with 25% of employers saying that compensation and benefits or reward directors and managers have primary responsibility ...
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ITN proposed DB scheme changes
In November last year ITN proposed changes to its defined benefit scheme to reduce its own payments by £10 million a year.The scheme has about 800 members and a deficit of £205 million despite cash injections.Unions were told that the company wanted to reduce its contribution, which averages 28% of ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2007: Salary sacrifice & voluntary benefits
Voluntary benefits continue to be pretty widespread with 58% of employers offering discounts on products and services to some, or all, of their staff. This is a similar proportion to our last survey of the benefits strategies of UK employers, in 2004, when 60% of employers said they offered voluntary ...
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Employee Benefits Research 2007: Core benefits
Types of benefit package on offerThe complexity of benefits packages has led to a myriad of definitions. Our research is based on the following:Core package: the traditional package of employer-paid benefits that may allow some flexibility within individual benefits, but staff can't opt out of or switch between perks.Flexible benefits ...