All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 1080
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Supplier articleWhat’s the biggest priority for HR In 2018?
By Charlie Taylor, Growth Marketing ManagerWe attended Employee Benefits Live 2017 this year with 2,200 others from the reward and benefits industry. I had the opportunity to talk to a lot of the HR professionals in attendance who were looking for ways to be more rebellious with their benefits, and ...
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ArticleWest Ham United Football Club gains living wage accreditation
West Ham United Football Club has been accredited as a living wage employer by the Living Wage Foundation.The organisation, which is the third Premier League football club to become a living wage employer, has committed to paying its 200 permanent employees, as well as any third-party contractors, at least the ...
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ArticleDo not miss the opportunity to enter the Employee Benefits Awards 2018
Reward, benefits and HR professionals should not miss the opportunity to showcase their benefits strategies and successes, as entries begin to roll in for the annual Employee Benefits Awards.The Employee Benefits Awards 2018, which returns for its 16th year in 2018, provides employers with the chance to showcase and celebrate ...
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ArticleFacebook and Google among UK’s 50 best places to work
Technology organisations Facebook, Google and Salesforce are among the organisations that have been recognised on the UK’s 50 Best places to work list, compiled by Glassdoor.The list, which recognises UK employers with 1,000 or more employees, forms part of Glassdoor’s 10th annual Employees’ choice awards. The organisation has also compiled ...
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Top five considerations before employees cash in their pension
Over half (53%) of retirees who accessed their defined contribution (DC) pensions chose to withdraw their entire pension pots, according to the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) interim findings of its ‘Retirement Outcomes Review’.Of these fully withdrawn pensions, 52% had been transferred into other savings or investments, thereby losing the valuable ...
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Employee Benefits Wired on demand: Member engagement
Employee Benefits Wired: Member engagement, presented in association with Nest, was broadcast live on Thursday 23 November 2017.The interactive online debate provided insights into the key issues surrounding member engagement with workplace pensions and the steps employers could take to ensure the best outcome for members.Topics that were discussed included:How ...
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Employee Benefits Wired: Supporting good governance on demand
Employee Benefits Wired: Supporting good governance took place at 11am on 30 August 2017, in association with Nest.Topics discussed included why good governance is important, what this looks like, how employers can be sure a master trust is delivering good governance, how frequently schemes should review pensions governance policies and ...
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AnalysisInfographic: What do employers think causes the gender pay gap?
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OpinionSumita Ketkar: What can employers learn from gender pay gap reporting?
It is hardly a revelation that employers are not enthusiastic about announcing their gender pay gap figures, even as the April 2018 deadline approaches. As of the first week of November 2017, only 204 of 9,000 organisations based in the UK had announced their figures, and only a small minority ...
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AnalysisHow do salary sacrifice arrangements affect gender pay gap reporting?
Need to know: Deductions for salary sacrifice arrangements are excluded from an employee’s base pay for the purposes of gender pay gap reporting. This could influence an organisation’s final gender pay gap data depending on how many women compared to men have taken up benefit via ...
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Each Person employee survey infographic
A survey of employees at a large employer that has adopted the Each Person recognition and rewards programme was carried out in Q4 2017. The highly revealing results garnered are representative of almost 700 employees with varying job roles.Key highlights include:- Employees from London and the South are 15X more ...
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Supplier articleIt’s time to stand up for Childcare Vouchers
By Cat Wright, Product Manager For our U.K. audience, we wanted to bring your attention to something really important happening in the world of childcare vouchers, a form of salary sacrifice that helps alleviate the burden of childcare costs for hundreds of thousands of parents.In case you weren’t aware, the ...
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ArticleDeloitte UK reports a 12.9% mean ethnicity pay gap
Professional services firm Deloitte UK has reported a 12.9% mean ethnicity pay gap for fixed hourly pay between black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) employees and non-BAME employees across the organisation.Deloitte UK is reporting its ethnicity pay gap for the first time this year, illustrating the percentage difference for salary ...
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ArticlePunter Southall Group businesses to merge with Xafinity
UK pensions actuarial, consulting and administration organisation Xafinity is to acquire Punter Southall Group’s actuarial, investment consulting and administration businesses.The proposed merger will see Xafinity acquire Punter Southall, Punter Southall Investment Consulting and Punter Southall Administration for a combination of cash and shares, predicted to total around £153 million. The ...
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ArticleAviva, BT Group and ConvaTec recognised for employee share plans
Aviva, BT Group, ConvaTec, Paddy Power Betfair and UBS were among the organisations recognised for best practice in employee share schemes at the ProShare Awards 2017 on Wednesday 6 Decmber 2017.The awards, which are now in their 25th year and were presented by television presenter Claudia Winkleman, aim to recognise ...
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ArticleTop 10 most read stories: 30 November-6 December 2017
The 10 most read stories on www.employeebenefits.co.uk between 30 November and 6 December 2017 were: Chinese man repaints road signs to speed up commuteHigh Court rules Morrisons is liable in payroll data leak caseFacebook and Google among UK's 50 best places to workEXCLUSIVE: The ACCA launches online financial education programmeGovernment ...
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ArticleScott's stance: Reporting ethnicity pay gaps creates roadmap to inclusive workplace cultures
This week, professional services organisation Deloitte UK voluntarily reported its ethnicity pay gap for black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) staff for the first time, reporting a mean ethnicity pay gap of 12.9% for fixed hourly pay and a mean ethnicity bonus gap of 41.9%.With gender pay gap reporting building ...
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ArticleTown of Tryon police department hires kitten as police dispatcher
Image credit: Town of Tryon, North CarolinaSomething for the weekend: Creating a diverse workforce is an important consideration for any organisation, however, the police department for the town of Tryon, North Carolina, has really proved itself as an inclusive employer, hiring a four-month old kitten as its newest police dispatcher.Its ...
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Supplier articleCountdown to the Rebel Playbook
By Chloe Deiulis, Content Marketing ManagerLast month, we announced a new section on Reward Gateway's website that introduces "Build It: The Rebel Playbook to World-Class Employee Engagement." Every few weeks, we'll be showcasing our favourite blogs from our sister site to countdown to February 2018, when the book hits shelves.Last ...
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ArticlePrimark and Sports Direct named on minimum wage non-compliance list
Retail organisations Primark and Sports Direct are among the 260 employers named by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) for failure to pay employees the national minimum wage and national living wage.Primark, which ranked third on the government’s list of organisations that have underpaid staff the minimum ...