All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 1081
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ArticleTravis Perkins launches financial education programme
Building merchants Travis Perkins has launched a financial education programme for its 30,000 UK employees.The new programme, which is provided by Neyber, includes a financial wellbeing hub featuring online tools to help staff manage their financial planning, as well as any debt issues they may face. Through the hub employees ...
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ArticleAvery Healthcare sees 1,930 staff sign up to benefits platform
Residential care home provider Avery Healthcare has seen 1,930 of its 4,200 employees activate accounts on its benefits platform since it launched in October 2017.The organisation implemented its new reward and recognition programme, which is branded Averyone and provided by Personal Group, as part of its wider employee wellbeing strategy, ...
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Supplier articleExpectations vs reality: the widening gap in global benefits
Thomsons’ latest Global Employee Benefits Watch 2017/18 research has uncovered that employees' needs and expectations of benefits are not being met by multinational organisations.This whitepaper explores the results from Thomsons' survey of over 2,000 employees, providing HR and reward professionals with never before seen insight on:Which life goals are important ...
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ArticleBritish Airways to introduce new defined contribution pension scheme
British Airways (BA) is to introduce a new defined contribution (DC) pension scheme as part of a new flexible benefits package for staff.The new pension scheme, which is due to open on 1 April 2018, will replace the airline’s existing defined benefit (DB) scheme, the New Airways Pension Scheme (Naps), ...
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Article86% cite pay as the most important aspect of their job
More than four-fifths (86%) of respondents cite pay as the most important aspect of their job, according to research by Paymentsense.Its survey of 2,000 UK participants also found that 79% of respondents feel that having 20 or more holiday days is most important when it comes to their job.The research ...
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ArticleEnter a wide range of categories at the Employee Benefits Awards 2018
The Employee Benefits Awards 2018 has 21 award categories to enter, allowing reward, benefits and HR professionals to celebrate their organisation’s successes across every facet of employee benefits and reward.The Employee Benefits Awards 2018, now in its 16th year, aims to celebrate organisational best practice across all areas of benefits ...
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OpinionAnt Donaldson: What does 2018 hold for employee benefits?
Every year seems to bring new challenges, so what should we be looking out for in 2018?As always, changing regulations are a key theme. Despite a quiet Budget, the headline change is the increase in minimum pensions auto-enrolment contributions to 5% from April, including 3% from employees, with a further ...
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Supplier articleHow should my charity approach employee recognition?
By Jamie KingWhen it comes to employee recognition, I can’t emphasise enough the importance of tailoring a solution specific to your organisation and charities face some unique challenges in this respect. For most organisations, employee recognition is about ensuring that they are celebrating their employees’ achievements in order to motivate ...
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OpinionRosemary Lemon: What does 2018 hold for employee benefits?
Life is getting hard and it looks like getting tougher in 2018 as we struggle with the potential impact of Brexit, increasing cost of living and the ever expensive property market. Recent press coverage has highlighted the escalating use of food banks and the fact that, as Christmas approaches, some ...
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OpinionNick Lawry: What does 2018 hold for employee benefits?
Pensions will continue to be a hot topic as auto-enrolment fully bites. So how will employers tackle the inherent conflict of trying to engage employees to save for retirement to prevent a high opt-out rate as auto-escalation kicks in, while trying to manage a benefits budget that will not automatically ...
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Supplier article
How to stay fit over Christmas
Most people tend to gain weight over the festive season and will put their fitness routine on the backburner until the New Year. The British population will consume a shocking 10,000 mince pies a minute over Christmas and 1,240 Christmas puddings will be eaten every minute. Staying active will limit ...
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Supplier articleAre you frightened or delighted by your corporate culture?
By Chloe Deiulis, Content Marketing Manager I have a small truth I’d like to share. I haven’t worn a suit since my very first interview.I remember interviewing at a content marketing agency for an intern position, fresh out of college and ready to hit the ground running in the “real ...
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Supplier articleWhat does a successful employee engagement program look like?
By James Edwards, Client Success Director So you’ve established goals, analysed data, reviewed the options and put an employee engagement strategy into action. Great! But now what?Monitoring your program is one thing, but to continually improve your levels of engagement, your employee engagement program needs TLC.It's all about your willingness ...
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Supplier articleHow to keep productivity up during the festive period
The festive season is a great time to celebrate your company’s success of the last year and for employees to forge closer relationship with colleagues, outside of the day to day work environment. Christmas is also a time of distractions – parties, shopping, socialising. These can all ...
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ArticleMerchant Navy Officers Pension Fund completes £490m pensions buy-in
The Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund (MNOPF) has completed a £490 million pensions buy-in transaction.The buy-in transaction, which was completed with Legal and General, will cover all MNOPF’s retirees since 2014, to ensure that pension benefits for retired members are hedged against longevity risk.The buy-in transaction is the latest de-risking ...
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ArticleCrest Healthcare to be prosecuted for auto-enrolment non-compliance
The Pensions Regulator (TPR) is to prosecute healthcare organisation Crest Healthcare and its managing director for failing to automatically enrol its employees into a workplace pension scheme.The Birmingham-based organisation and its managing director Shelia Aluko have been summoned to appear at Brighton Magistrates’ Court on 22 December 2017 to each ...
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ArticleCBRE staff based at the Royal Berkshire Hospital to receive 5% pay rise
Maintenance employees who work for property organisation CBRE at the Royal Berkshire Hospital are to receive a minimum 5% pay rise.Employees, who are also members of trade union GMB, will receive a 5% pay increase awarded as back pay in their December salary. This has been calculated as a 1% ...
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OpinionEd Stacey: Holiday pay for workers could place them in a better position than employees
This month saw the anticipated ruling from the European Court of Justice in the case of King vs Sash Windows Workshop. The key question in the case was whether a worker who fails to take paid annual holiday, due to their employer refusing to meet their obligation to provide it, ...
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ArticleRoyal Mail to face legal action over holiday pay and minimum wage
Royal Mail is to face legal action over the status of its courier drivers and their entitlement to employment rights, such as holiday pay and the national minimum wage.The legal action is being brought to the Employment Tribunal (ET) by trade union GMB on behalf of four courier drivers who ...
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Article70% believe reporting will help to reduce the gender pay gap
More than three-quarters (70%) of employer respondents believe that gender pay gap reporting will help to reduce the gender pay gap, according to research by the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD).Its Reward management: focus on pay report, which surveyed 715 employers, also found that 67% think it will ...