All articles by System Administrator – Page 62
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Tribunal finds for Tupe bosses
Employers are not obliged to provide staff transferring to their organisation under the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) (Tupe) regulations with additional rights and benefits to which they were not previously entitled.In the case Computershare Investor Services v Jackson, the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) ruled that the purpose of ...
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Speculation over Bringme's future
Lloyds TSB Registrars is, according to press reports, up for sale, but the future of its benefits arm, Bringme, remains unclear. Lloyds TSB refuses to comment on whether its share registration business is being sold off and Bringme with it.Bringme claims to have launched benefits schemes to around 50% of ...
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Training proves popular with Buckinghamshire County Council staff
Buckinghamshire County Council has found that training is a popular benefit among staff. Feedback from its annual benefits survey shows that training is consistently rated as one of the organisation's top three perks. For this reason, it plans to offer each employee a minimum of five days training and development ...
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MTV changes private medical insurance provider
MTV has changed its private medical insurance provider from Norwich Union to PruHealth. Tarun Patel, compensation and benefits director, said that the change had been made in time for this year's flexible benefits election period. "I just wanted to see what was out there in the market. The buy-in has ...
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Nestle HR chief finds new role
Nestle UK's head of compensation and benefits, Neil Millan, is to become head of employee services across the company's UK businesses and will be responsible for transactional HR functions. Millan's present duties will be taken on by David Harvey, currently director of HR for the company's coffee, food and nutritional ...
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DHL has re-packaged its perks
DHL Express is gradually implementing a total reward strategy.Although the delivery company began to develop its scheme in 2004, various factors such as its unionised environment meant that it only began to put this into practice last year. The first step was its introduction of a voluntary benefits scheme last ...
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Equals One and Encore Recruitment has found that flex works
Recruitment consultancy Equals One and Encore Recruitment has a bulging trophy cabinet full of awards for innovation, particularly in the flexible working field. Director Vivienne Duke says: "Without doubt, flexible working [arrangements] improve staff turnover and [reduce] staff absenteeism, and promote a healthy, happy workplace."The company has offered flexible working ...
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FirstGroup launches intranet site to encourage staff training
FirstGroup has launched an intranet site to help staff access training, and encourage them to think about career progression.The site is targeted primarily at the bus and rail operator’s drivers, who comprise 80% of its 25,000-strong workforce.The site will include information on career development and will encourage staff to visit ...
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Employee Benefits Fleet Research 2007
The surveyAttitudesWhat’s on offerHealth & safetySponsor’s comment by Masterlease: Grass roots data is catalyst for fleetsThe surveyOur survey was carried out in January 2007. We received 309 replies from Employee Benefits readers and users of www.employeebenefits.co.ukWho are the respondents?KEY FINDINGS51% manage their fleet in-house.31% say cars will always be part ...
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British Legion plans to offer childcare vouchers
The Royal British Legion plans to offer childcare vouchers to its 1,000 employees by April. Alison Solomon, assistant HR officer, said: "We've had a few enquiries and requests, and thought it was a good thing to do."
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Employees split over caring for company cars
Almost a quarter of employees (24%) believe that the financial risk associated with switching to a personal vehicle would be the worst thing about losing their right to a company car.According to Risk and reward 2007 by fleet provider Alphabet, a further 20% felt that the hassle of maintaining their ...
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Cost control is key for smaller fleets
The most popular question asked by managers of small company car fleets of leasing brokers is how to reduce running costs, according to 89% of brokers surveyed on the issue by the Network Broker Forum. At the other end of the scale, just 11% of brokers said they perceived small ...
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Employers must ensure they use new fuel rates
Employers should ensure that they are now using the new advisory fuel rates, which came into effect on 1 March.These apply where employers reimburse employees for business travel in their company cars or where staff repay the cost of fuel used for private travel.The rates now range from 6p per ...
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Confessions of a benefits manager
Candid: This is the last time I travel anywhere, and certainly the last time I fly with the least-loved airline. Mind you, this trip started off well enough. I prepared everything ahead, even to the extent of reading the new hand-baggage instructions and printing out my own boarding pass. It ...
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Trustees may face DB worries
The Pension Regulator's draft guidance on the abandonment of defined benefit (DB) pension schemes could place trustees in a difficult position.The paper Abandonment of defined benefit pension schemes, which is under consultation until 9 February, is aimed at explaining to trustees how to recognise plans that could be affected.In it, ...
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British Airways revamps its voluntary benefits
British Airways has revamped its voluntary benefits plan by moving responsibility for it away from its benefits team to its sports and social club.The airline has also outsourced its administration, enabling it to increase the number of discounts offered to employees from 50 to 1,200, while maintaining all the perks ...
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Men more likely to take up share plans
Male employees are far more likely to participate in employee share plans than their female colleagues.Just under three-quarters (73%) of share plan participants are male, while just 27% are female, according to HBOS Employee Equity Solutions' Employee share ownership plans, financial education, and savings behaviour research, which was carried out ...
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More employers are taking a strategic approach to reward
Employers are increasingly taking a strategic approach to reward, with 35% having done so, so far. A further 40% plan to adopt a strategic approach in the coming year.The sixth annual Reward management survey by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) also found that 41% of respondents have ...
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Standard Chartered Bank caters for international assignments
Standard Chartered Bank operates in 56 countries and has 58,000 employees worldwide. Staff are encouraged to take international assignments and there are currently around 35 in-bound assignees working in the UK.Manissa Patel, head of international mobility, explains that because overseas assignments are such a normal occurrence, it does not have ...
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Employers giving staff occupational pensions for life assurance perks risk fines
Employers that have allowed staff to join an occupational pension scheme purely to take up life assurance perks must review their practice or risk being fined by the Pensions Regulator.Although the Pensions Act 2004, which came into effect in December 2005, banned the practice unless schemes satisfy exemption criteria, so ...