All articles by System Administrator – Page 88
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Speeding drivers to get help with new Drivetech (UK) course
Drivers with more than six penalty points on their licence are being helped to demonstrate a real commitment to safer driving with the launch by DriveTech (UK) of a speed recognition course.Berkshire-based DriveTech (UK), the country's leading provider of at-work driving risk management, driver assessment and driver training solutions, developed ...
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Friends Provident undertakes client communication exercise on A-day changes
Friends Provident is undertaking an A-day communications initiative for members of its defined contribution pension plans.Friends Provident has produced a series of product specific leaflets to help members understand the impact of pension simplification.
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News update - Firm powered by childcare vouchers
Power station Rugeley Power is to launch a childcare voucher scheme to its 150 Staffordshire-based employees this month. This follows a successful launch of a home computing initiative in November, when 56 employees took part. Imagine Childcare will provide the new benefit.
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Feature - Focus on cars: Personal contract plans
If you read nothing else, read this ...Under a PCP, employees have the option of owning the car rather than just leasing it.A PCP can give employees a greater choice of car, making it a useful recruitment and retention tool.A PCP may be more attractive to larger organisations due to ...
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Qinetiq introduces tax-efficient benefits
Amid wide speculation of an upcoming flotation, global defence IT firm QinetiQ has introduced a tax-efficient benefits package for all UK staff.The Motivano co-ordinated salary sacrifice scheme aimed at 9,000 staff who develop weaponry for the counter-terrorism market, includes a home PC package, bikes for work and childcare vouchers.The part-privatised ...
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Kwik-Fit tunes up perks pack
Kwik-Fit, the automotive repair company, has introduced childcare vouchers and a home computing package using brochures in workers’ pay packets to target partners of its predominantly male workforce.John O’Donnell, HR manager at the national chain, said the communication of the childcare voucher scheme was aimed at workers’ partners in order ...
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News update - Marketing is major perks issue
Employers must acknowledge the need for marketing and employer education when introducing new benefit schemes into their company - according to Richard Morgan (pictured), head of flexible benefits at Watson Wyatt.Speaking at Employee Benefits' one-day salary sacrifice conference in November called How to Pay Less Tax on Benefits, Morgan said ...
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Research update - HR sees productivity links
More than 75% of human resources directors at Britain's larger firms acknowledge that employee health and wellness is strongly linked to productivity and staff morale, according to research from PruHealth. It also shows that 43% of employers think that employee health has a high or very high profile in their ...
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Soft-compulsion for new HBOS staff into pension
HBOS, the UK banking group, is to introduce soft-compulsion for new staff joining its money purchase pension scheme from May. New recruits will be automatically enrolled into the pension scheme upon joining, although they may then request to opt-out.
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Product news - Mercer sets up service to help guide trustees
Mercer Human Resource Consulting has set up a service to help trustees of final salary pension schemes through the Pension Protection Fund (PPF) assessment period.When companies become insolvent their pension schemes need to be assessed in order to determine whether the PPF will take on their liabilities and pay members' ...
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Research update - Multinationals lacking in globally mobile perks
A quarter of all multinational companies do not have a benefits policy for globally mobile employees - according to a new survey conducted by Mercer Human Resource Consulting.Of those companies that do have policies, around one-in-ten have never reviewed them.The Expatriate and third-country nationals benefits survey included responses from 230 ...
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Vantis gets flex
The 600 employees at business advisory group Vantis have been offered flexible benefits in a bid to harmonise perks across its 12 business acquisitions made since 2002.
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Product news - Warm up to flex
Incomes Data Services, the employment research organisation, has published an employers' guide to flexible benefits. The HR StudyPlus on flexible benefits covers the stages that need to be completed to introduce a flexible benefits scheme, including assessing products, administration and communication. The employers' guide costs £98. For more information visit ...
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Research update - IDS finds little pressure on pay rises
Incomes Data Services (IDS) has found that there is little sign of upward pressure on pay rises in the run up to pay round negotiations.The vast majority of private sector pay settlements though are ahead of inflation, which is on a downward trend, with the Retail Prices Index inflation at ...
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Guest opinion: Scrapping the Operating and Financial Review (OFR)
Guess who said this: “Human capital is the 21st century equivalent of the 19th century dependence on natural resources. Modern wealth creation depends upon the development of people.” It was, in fact, Tony Blair, just before the general election in April last year. Therefore, the early Christmas present that Chancellor ...
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Employers vexed by PPF levy
Employers and consultants have given a cautious welcome to the Pension Protection Fund (PPF)’s revised proposals on the way that the levy is to be calculated.The PPF, which was set up to protect pension scheme members from losing pension rights in the event of a organisation’s insolvency, is to increase ...
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Product news - Towers Perrin unveils online diagnostic survey tool
Towers Perrin HR Services has unveiled an online diagnostic survey tool with the aim of giving organisations a more accurate insight into the level of employee engagement.The Towers Perrin Rapid Engagement Diagnostic Survey has been designed to provide a quick and accurate way of measuring a level of employee commitment, ...
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Feature - In depth: Payroll giving
Case studies: Argos Retail Group, WanadooArticle in fullAccording to the old saying, charity begins at home but growing interest from UK employers means it could well start in the workplace.The reason: American-born payroll giving, which allows employees to donate money to the charity of their choice, tax free, direct from ...
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Feature - In depth: Profit sharing gives way to share incentive plans
Case Study: John Lewis PartnershipArticle in fullProfit sharing is one of the most tried and tested incentive systems in existence. It is certainly one of the oldest. The first recorded scheme in England dates back to 1794 and economists were writing about the merits of profit sharing more than 150 ...
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Employer profile: Danone sees health and wellbeing as key
Jenny Keefe says that dairy food giant Danone has a natural appetite for health and wellbeing, which it shares with staffArticle in fullYou are what you eat: a philosophy that holds true for organisations as well as people. So if, like Danone UK, you have ploughed millions into positioning yourself ...