All Video articles – Page 8
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Jane Richards: Top tips on procuring benefits
Jane Richards, reward technical partner, wealth, at the Royal Bank of Scotland, aligned to Coutts, talks to Debi O’Donovan, editor at Employee Benefits, about the aspects benefits and HR managers should consider when procuring benefits.Whether to do-it-yourself, or use a broker or consultant, will be heavily influenced by how experienced ...
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Jamie Jenkins: What HR needs to consider about default funds
Jamie Jenkins, head of workplace strategy at Standard Life, speaks to Debi O’Donovan, editor of Employee Benefits, about the importance of employers engaging in the type of funds their pension scheme members are invested in.Auto-enrolment rules mean that millions of employees will be coming into pension schemes for the very ...
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UKTV switches staff on to value of benefits
When a staff survey revealed widespread knowledge gaps about its employee benefits package, UKTV took the opportunity to communicate the real value of its perks.Its communication strategy included a two-day benefits and wellbeing event last October, which focused on raising awareness about UKTV’s core benefits, including its pension and private ...
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Tim Taylor: The importance of pensions for HR
Tim Taylor, head of reward at Tui Travel, talks to Debi O’Donovan, editor of Employee Benefits, about the importance of pensions as an engagement tool and why HR should not shy away from pensions.Taylor advises HR managers to get on top of the issue of pension plans’ default investment funds ...
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Adam Sorenson: Questions global reward managers should ask
Adam Sorenson, global practice leader at WorldatWork, chats to Debbie Lovewell, deputy editor of Employee Benefits, about the key questions global reward managers should ask when taking responsibility for a country or region for the first time, how to take company and local culture into account, and how to establish ...
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VIDEO: Louise Beardmore: The role of HR in employee engagement
Louise Beardmore, head of organisational development and HR operations at United Utilities, and senior member of the Employee Engagement Task Force, talks to Debi O’Donovan, editor of Employee Benefits, about the role of HR in employee engagement.
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Mondelez International's tasty rewards
Kraft Foods spent last year overhauling its reward package following its acquisition of Cadbury in 2010. The US food and beverage giant is now set to decide what, if any, changes it will make to the package after renaming the merged entity Mondelez International, with the new company unveiled in ...
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Jane Vivier: Top issues facing reward managers
The needs of the employee audience has changed in the past five years, said Jane Vivier, reward consultant. “It’s about making the benefits we do offer relevant to employees today.”Interviewed at Employee Benefits Live 2012 in September, Vivier also recommended that people taking up a career in benefits find themselves ...
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VIDEO: Nita Clarke: Why UK PLC should take staff engagement seriously
Nita Clarke, co-chair of the Employee Engagement Task Force and Engaged for Success, explains how UK businesses could be losing up to £60 billion in productivity due to lack of staff engagement.
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David MacLeod and Nita Clarke: Importance of employee engagement
David MacLeod and Nita Clark, co-chairs of the Employee Engagement Task Force, delivered the keynote session at Employee Benefits Live on 26 September 2012.On Monday 26 November, the Employee Engagement Task Force will officially launch the next phase of its plans to increase the engagement of UK employees.View the video ...
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VIDEO: Joanne Segars: Pension charges are HR issue
The HR community has an important role to play in putting pressure on pensions providers and advisers to push down charges and create better value, according to Joanne Segars, chief executive of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).It is essential that HR managers look at pensions charges when selecting ...
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VIDEO: Charlotte Sweeney: Needs of carers must be taken seriously
Employers must take the needs of carers more seriously, said Charlotte Sweeney, diversity and wellbeing specialist.During an interview with Debi O’Donovan, editor of Employee Benefits, at Employee Benefits Live at the end of September, Sweeney said that the change in employee demographic means that far more people in the workplace ...
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Video: Shawn Healy: Benefits tax issues
Shawn Healy, tax director at accountants BDO, was one of the tax experts on hand for delegates to speak to at Employee Benefits Live 2012.In this video, he shares some of the key concerns about salary sacrifice raised during his free one-to-one sessions.
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VIDEO: Louise Beardmore: How HR can drive business
Louise Beardmore’s highly-rated presentation at Employee Benefits Live 2012 left delegates inspired and informed.View the 20-minute video of her presentation: Driving the engagement agenda despite current budgetary contraints.Beardmore’s key lessons include how the HR and reward function engages line managers so that they can translate and enable the stategies HR ...
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Video — Staffcare auto-enrolment technology event for employers
This video has been supplied by our channel sponsor, Staffcare.Managing the complex administration and compliance requirements of auto-enrolment requires robust yet flexible technology. Staffcare’s Auto-Enrolment Portal can be used with any type of pension, any provider and any HR or payroll system; so it doesn’t matter if things change in ...
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VIDEO: Jenny Davidson: Using flex to deliver auto-enrolment
Jenny Davidson, head of reward at CSC Computer Sciences, discusses why her organisation is using its flexible benefits platform to deliver pensions auto-enrolment to staff.
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Alexandra Kitching: Three components of a quality DC pension
Alexandra Kitching, Pension Quality Mark (PQM) manager at the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), discusses the three most important components of a good quality defined contribution (DC) pension scheme.
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Ladbrokes takes reward delivery into cyberspace
Since 1886, Ladbrokes’ doors have been open to anyone who wants to gamble. Today, it has more than 2,000 betting shops across the UK, and employs 15,500 staff. Besides its retail presence, the organisation also offers betting markets through the internet, mobile phones and telephones.As technology progresses, Ladbrokes is focused ...
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VIDEO: Lesley Fidler on tax issues
It is important for benefits professionals, as well as finance professionals, to be aware of tax issues surrounding salary sacrifice schemes, said Lesley Fidler, tax director at Baker Tilly.Fidler was interviewed by Debi O’Donovan, editor of Employee Benefits magazine, at Employee Benefits Live in September.Fidler added that big tax-related issues ...
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MacLeod on engagement task force's next move
The Employee Engagement Task Force will launch a website, which will include advice, tools and networks, in the next phase of its work around improving the employee engagement of the UK workforce.David MacLeod, co-chair of the task force and co-author of the MacLeod report on employee engagement, outlined the plans ...