All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 1046
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Supplier articleTips to get your employee benefits budget approved
It can be daunting trying to get budget for your employee benefits plans. Making a case to the board is something that every HR Director will have to do throughout their career and something we know lots about. Here are our top tips for navigating the process.Be clear about what ...
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How to help employees protect their maturing share schemes from tax
Employees from many leading companies are benefiting from maturing Save As You Earn (SAYE) share schemes this year, but what can they do to make sure that these potentially life changing amounts aren’t eroded by Capital Gains Tax (CGT)?WEALTH at work works with many employers to offer financial education to ...
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Are your company values a big enough part of your recruiting process?
by Carla Sutherland, senior recruiter Our culture is what drives Reward Gateway and is the heartbeat of who we are as a organization. As one of our senior recruiters, my role is to make sure we’re getting the right people in the right roles. It’s a lot of pressure when ...
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Equalising mental and physical health
The 15 minute video above, presented by Vanessa Sallows, benefits and governance director at Legal and General, and mental health advocate Clarke Carlisle, covers:Campaigns such as Your ‘Not A Red Card’ campaign and others have aimed to raise the profile of mental health and the benefits of talking to someone ...
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ArticleCostain extends employee assistance programme to supply chain staff
Construction organisation Costain has extended access to its employee assistance programme (EAP) to staff working in its supply chain.The EAP provision forms part of the organisation’s overall business strategy, which includes a focus on improving employee health and wellbeing under its Costain Cares initiative. This includes encouraging other organisations to ...
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Supplier articleAsda extends Xexec employee discount partnership
Asda has become the latest supermarket to re-confirm its place on Xexec’s employee discounts platform, joining Marks & Spencer, Tesco, Waitrose, Iceland, Morrisons and Sainsbury’s on the employee engagement specialist’s seven-strong panel. The deal means that Xexec’s end users will be able to make savings at all of the supermarket’s ...
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Supplier articleCreating engaging internal content
Catrin Lewis, internal communications manager at Reward GatewayWe publish to our internal communications platform, boom!, nearly every single day. I wanted to walk through a few tips on how to create engaging content from the get-go. In CatComms TV, I'll reveal my secret for getting some of the best content ...
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Video
Empowering financial wellness
The 10-minute video above, presented by Alex Tullett, head of benefit strategy at Capita, covers the following areas:Financial stress is a known phenomenon in the workplace, so why will empowering individuals to take control of their situation make a difference?How do you put someone’s financial stress into context for them ...
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ArticleTotal and regular pay fall by 0.5% in real terms
Both total pay, which includes bonus payments, and regular pay, which excludes bonuses, fell by 0.5% in real terms for employees in Great Britain between April-June 2016 and April-June 2017, according to research by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).Its UK labour market: August 2017 report, also found that in ...
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ArticleBupa promotes Loughrey
Healthcare organisation Bupa has promoted Zara Loughrey to reward director.Loughrey will move from her current role as head of reward, Bupa Global to start in her new position.Previously, Loughrey has worked as head of reward at Arqiva, UK head of HR at Pall Europe, and as reward director at Babcock ...
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Conway accepts permanent role at Bupa
Grant Conway has accepted a permanent position at healthcare organisation Bupa as its new people director, Bupa Global.Conway, who has strategic and operational experience in general HR and reward for both the UK and internationally, has held interim posts at Bupa in the past, acting as the organisation’s interim global ...
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AnalysisCommunicating the gender pay gap
Need to know:Since the BBC revealed the salaries of its highest-paid employees, pay has dominated the national debate. Pressure is growing for organisations with more than 250 employees to reveal their gender pay gap data before the government’s deadline of April 2018.Some organisations may encounter hurdles when assembling their data, ...
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OpinionSamantha Mann: Employers can learn from others that have reported gender pay gap details
The 2017-18 fiscal year introduced a new obligation for employers in the private and voluntary sector requiring those with a headcount of 250 or more ‘relevant employees’ as at the snapshot date of 5 April 2017, and each subsequent year, to calculate statistics to demonstrate the gender pay gap that ...
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Case StudiesPWC leads by example as an early adopter of gender pay gap reporting
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) decided to lead by example on gender pay gap reporting. The organisation first reported its pay gap in 2014, and was looking at the issue prior to that.So why did PWC first decided to reveal its pay gap to the world? Ed Stacey, partner and head of employment ...
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Analysis
Infographic: Would financial penalties help to close the gender pay gap?
An infographic outlining the proportion of employer respondents that believe financial penalties would help to close the gender pay gap. (Source: Employee Benefits poll, August 2017). Read more in: Communicating the gender pay gap.!function(e,t,s,i){var n="InfogramEmbeds",o=e.getElementsByTagName("script"),d=o[0],r=/^http:/.test(e.location)?"http:":"https:";if(/^\/{2}/.test(i)&&(i=r+i),window[n]&&window[n].initialized)window[n].process&&window[n].process();else if(!e.getElementById(s)){var a=e.createElement("script");a.async=1,a.id=s,a.src=i,d.parentNode.insertBefore(a,d)}}(document,0,"infogram-async","//e.infogram.com/js/dist/embed-loader-min.js");
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The winners and losers of the new tax-free childcare system
Changes to the childcare voucher system were rolled out in April 2017. Parents who are already members of the current childcare voucher system can continue in it, providing their employer will still provide access to it; new members will also have the opportunity to join the current scheme up until ...
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ArticleBenenden Health
Founded in 1905, Benenden Health is a not-for-profit health and wellbeing organisation, offering award-winning employee healthcare, plus an extensive range of onsite health assessments and a business health cash plan.With no upper age limits and no medical questionnaires necessary, we believe our business health and wellbeing services could support your ...
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ArticleArgos tops minimum wage non-compliance list for £1.4m underpayment
Retail organisation Argos has topped the list of 233 employers named by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for failure to pay employees the national minimum wage and living wage.Argos failed to pay £1,461,881.78 to 12,176 employees. In February 2017, Argos announced that it would provide back ...
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Supplier articleWriting an award-winning application for your HR initiatives
by Debra Corey, group reward directorAs a former gymnast, I tend to be more than a little competitive. After all, there’s no greater feeling than winning, and at the same time, celebrating all the hard work that went into it! In HR, there are many opportunities to celebrate wins in ...
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ArticleTop 10 most read stories this week: 10-16 August 2017
The top 10 most read stories on www.employeebenefits.co.uk between 10 and 16 August 2017 were: Tata Steel gains initial approval for pensions scheme restructureThe Pensions Regulator names schemes that fail to meet basic auto-enrolment dutiesEAT ruling on voluntary overtime's inclusion in holiday pay raises practical considerationsGoogle and Expedia among 2017's ...