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Feature - Focus on motivation: Email reliance derails recognition
Tools like email are in danger of replacing personal recognition, and using smaller group sizes in motivational schemes could prove more effective, says Nick GoldingIf you read nothing else, read this ...The intranet can cause management to become complacent when it comes to motivating employees.By dividing up a large workforce ...
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News update - Renesas's new cover
Employees at Renesas, a joint partnership between Hitachi and Mitsubishi, will soon be able to increase death-in-service benefit through the company's flexible benefits scheme to five or six times their salary.The company, which presently funds cover of three times salary and previously allowed employees to flex up to four times, ...
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Pensions update - Scottish & Newcastle staff must contribute
International brewer Scottish & Newcastle (S&N) is making changes to its final salary defined benefit scheme that will require members to pay contributions for the first time.Following negotiations with its employee council, S&N has decided that members who remain with the scheme will have to contribute 6% of their pensionable ...
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Pensions update - Staff consultation guide goes live
Final guidelines on regulations making it compulsory for employers to consult with their employees or staff representatives on pension scheme changes are now available on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) website.The Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Consultation by Employers and Miscellaneous Amendment) Regulations 2006 take effect in April ...
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Research update - Home computer schemes triple
The number of employers offering home computing schemes for staff has more than tripled in the past year, from 380 schemes to 1,250, according to government-backed industry body the HCI Alliance. Five million employees now have access to a home computing scheme, a 39% increase on last year.For more visit ...
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News update - Club move by Cadbury
Cadbury Schweppes has removed the health club Living Well from its annual flexible benefits programme because of complexities in administering the benefit.Living Well has instead been added to the list of health club providers available through Cadbury's Any Time programme, which allows employees to contact providers directly to take advantage ...
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Pensions update - EU brings in border check
Employers running cross-border pension schemes have until 30 March to apply for authorisation and approval from the Pensions Regulator.Rules introduced as part of EU Directive 2003/41, commonly known as the Occupational Pensions Directive, require all existing schemes and new cross-border pension schemes to apply for authorisation and approval. Up to ...
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News update - Microsoft boots up new perks
Microsoft UK has revamped its flexible benefits package by switching providers, adding new benefits and increasing its perks budget. The software giant has used Motivano to implement Flexi:2006. It had previously used Northgate HR to run its flexible benefits programme.New benefits include vital organ scanning, where employees are screened for ...
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News update - Eversheds boosts health offer
Law firm Eversheds has boosted the health benefits available to staff by introducing an employee assistance programme (EAP), health screening and dental insurance. The law firm already offers staff private medical insurance as a voluntary benefit.The health screening and dental insurance will now also be offered as voluntary benefits, while ...
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Feature - In depth: Bonus schemes
Jamin Robertson asks if mid-winter payouts give staff the means to a career end, but finds golden handcuffs are alluringCase Study: OrangeArticle in fullIt is deep mid-winter. Overworked HR professionals, tired of working from dawn 'til dusk and stressed because they work in an under-staffed and increasingly embittered office, sit ...
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News update - KPMG to revamp benefits
KPMG has revamped its corporate benefits package, organised a benefits survey and is improving the way it promotes benefits to employees.Bikes for work and mobile phones have been added to the company's existing flexible benefits package, which already includes health insurance, childcare vouchers, a home computing scheme (HCI) and lifestyle ...
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Benefits managers discuss future plans
With much legislative and regulatory change on the horizon, human resources and benefits managers are busy drawing up plans and lists of tasks for the new year and beyond. Bea Oaff finds out what priorities have been set for the future.Communicating pensionsRoy Platten head of benefits at car maker Volkswagen ...
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News update - Bookie beefs up benefits
William Hill is finalising a new voluntary benefits package that will offer its 14,000 UK staff a range of discounts. The move follows last year's acquisition of more than 600 betting shops from rival Stanley Leisure, adding to William Hill's existing retail portfolio of 1,600 shops. The package has been ...
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News update - BBC man quits early
The BBC's compensation and benefits manager, Matthew Murtagh, is to take early retirement at the end of March. Roger Fairhead, head of compensation and benefits at the Rank Group, will join the BBC in March as head of reward.BBC people director Stephen Dando is also due to leave in the ...
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Healthy outcome for Cadbury Trebor Bassett
Research into Cadbury Trebor Bassett's health and wellness programme found that 63% of 260 staff questioned believed they had achieved a better work-life balance and 53% said they were less stressed. The research, by Nuffield Proactive Health, also showed that 70% said they felt more positive about their employer.
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Benefits around the world
Broadly speaking, in Asia help during sickness and old age falls to the family, in the US you save for yourself and in Europe the state is more active, Vicki Taylor provides some country specificsArticle in fullUK-based employees may gripe about income tax rates, the benefits provided by their employer ...
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Event news - Summit airs issues
Employee Benefits is to bring together top benefits and human resources professionals for a three-day summit to discuss issues and explore the future of benefits.The event will take place at the Celtic Manor Resort in South Wales between 3-5 July.Invitations to the summit are being sent out to 50 of ...
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News update - Age law spurs Portman rethink
Portman Building Society is reviewing contributions to its stakeholder pension scheme ahead of incoming age discrimination laws.An insider who recently quit the building society's human resources department said discussions with pension scheme advisers had revealed that age-based contribution limits within the stakeholder plan could contravene the terms of the Age ...
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Benefits in South Africa
Apartheid's end has brought economic easing in South Africa, and while employers are not obliged to provide a pension plan, if they do, employees must join, says Vicki TaylorIf you read nothing else, read this ...Employers are not obliged to provide a pension scheme, but if they do, their employees ...
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Regular pension admin systems reviews necessary
Sonia Speedy asks how often a pension administration system review should take place.If you read nothing else, read this …The need to review systems can be triggered by several factors including lack of supplier support, the need for a major upgrade and changes in pension scheme design.Opinions differ on how ...