All articles by System Administrator – Page 60
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King Sturge launches health benefits
King Sturge has launched health-related benefits following a request from its corporate social responsibility (CSR) committee to further improve employee health.These include a cycle-to-work scheme and a free electrocardiogram (ECG) scan to assess the health of employees' hearts. The latter will be offered on-site throughout April.Karen Clark, senior HR officer ...
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Standard wellness benefits
Freebies charge up perksEmployers can provide a number of healthcare perks, and as providers vie for business, barter for free or low-cost add-onsThere are a number of common benefits an employer can offer staff that will provide a good foundation for a health and wellbeing strategy. These include private medical ...
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Boost for payroll giving
Workplace Giving UK is encouraging clients to relaunch their payroll giving schemes to mark the 20th anniversary of the product and boost staff take up.The move, which is aimed at encouraging employers to achieve take-up rates of 10%-20% and recruit an additional 20 employees to join a payroll giving scheme ...
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Universal Music and Wragge & Co run health and wellbeing weeks
Universal Music and Wragge & Co are both to run health and wellbeing weeks in April to raise awareness of such issues.Universal Music will offer its staff heart and cholesterol checks, hearing tests, dietary advice and stop smoking tips during its third annual health and safety week.Michael Pye, director of ...
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Defined contribution pensions: An update
Defined contribution (DC) pension schemes are going under the knife. A huge transformation is set to take place in the pensions market, with government proposals for a new low-cost national pensions savings scheme of personal accounts and a consultation exercise on DC pensions being carried out by the Pensions Regulator. ...
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Costello joins Lloyds Pharmacy
Lloyds Pharmacy has appointed a new reward manager, Theresa Costello, who effectively replaces remuneration and benefits manager Lorna Brady. She left the company in September last year and her role has been covered by an interim manager. Costello has been a self-employed reward consultant for the last three years. She ...
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Deloitte introduces health and wellbeing portal
Deloitte is to introduce discounted health assessments and a health and wellbeing portal in a bid to offer staff a more integrated healthcare scheme.The website will provide employees with information about their healthcare benefits and access to general healthy-living advice. It also features a hospital locator and details of a ...
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Engaging staff
Involve to boost take upEngaging staff in wellbeing lies in making them feel involved from the start, but not all employees will want to participateThe most comprehensive health and wellbeing strategy in the world won't work unless employees know about it and are willing to actively engage with it. This ...
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RWE Npower introduces total reward statements as step to flex
RWE npower will introduce total reward statements in June as the first step towards implementing a flexible benefits scheme.The move to flex is part of its long-term benefits strategy, which has yet to gain board approval. The energy firm wants to re-educate staff around its voluntary benefit package, encourage take ...
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Glossary - Health & Wellbeing
GlossaryAbsence management systemA process of monitoring staff absence levels which can result in data being provided to employers to help them control absence and tackle the reasons behind it.Bikes-for-work schemesA tax-efficient scheme whereby the employer purchases a bike for employees who wish to take up the offer. The employer reclaims ...
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GVA Grimley launches holiday planning system
GVA Grimley has added a holiday planning system, pay modeller and total reward statements to its online flexible benefits scheme to help staff at the property firm make informed decisions.Employees can now book holiday, access colleagues' timetables and update their absence records online. The data gathered will enable the company ...
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Growing number of staff unaware of pensions tax savings
An increasing number of workers are unaware of the tax incentives for pension savings.According to construction industry financial services firm B&CE's annual Spring pensions research more than half (52%) of workers claim that they are not aware of these tax breaks, which is an increase from last year's 43%.Younger employees ...
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How to manage health & wellbeing
Absence ails industryMake audits a life lineStandard wellness benefitsAdding valueMonitoring healthCase studiesGlossarySponsor's commentDownload: How to manage health & wellbeing (PDF 192KB)Contributor: Stephanie SpicerSickness absence costs employers 3.5% of working time a year, or the equivalent of £598 per employee, according to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's Absence management ...
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Monitoring health
A vital sign that HR careMonitoring staff health can play a major role in illness prevention and should be a key constituent of any wellness strategyAny good health and wellbeing strategy should include measures for monitoring and assessing staff to identify and prevent potential illnesses before they turn into long-term ...
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HR-related legislation coming into effect in April 2007
Several legislative changes that employers must comply with come into effect this month, including:From 1 April: Enhanced parental rights under the Work and Families Act 2006 which apply where the expected week of childbirth or date of adoption is on or after 1 April 2007.From 2 April: Workplaces in Northern ...
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Corporate Manslaughter Act is ""missed opportunity""
The Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Bill was awaiting Royal Assent to become an Act as Employee Benefits went to press. David Urpeth, partner at solicitors firm Irwin Mitchell, said the government had "missed an opportunity" by not including individual liability for senior managers. Instead, organisations will be fined if the ...
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Mothers embrace flexible working arrangements
Flexible working is considered the benefit most likely to aid working mothers, according to a survey of HR and finance managers. More than two-thirds of respondents to the Workplace survey by Robert Half International favoured this method, with part-time hours offered by 64% of respondents as a means of encouraging ...
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A guide to childcare benefits
With a number of childcare options in the market, employers should choose wisely, says Jenny KeefeCase studies: The Gambling Commission, Goldman SachsArticle in full'Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?', is the clarion call often made by many employees, but parents may have particular ...
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Small cars safer to park
Medium and large-sized company cars are 300% more likely to be involved in accidents while trying to park than smaller cars.Just 6% of executive cars have been involved in parking incidents over the past 12 months according to the Parking damage survey by fleet management firm Masterlease. The average cost ...
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Environmental issues impact on fleet policy
Environmental issues are having an impact on employers' company car policies. Just under a quarter (22%) have adopted a green transport policy, while a further 40% encourage staff to car share. More than a quarter (27%), meanwhile, have restricted drivers' choices to lower consumption diesel engines, according to the Company ...