All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 1369
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How to plan a virtual team building event for remote employees
By Catrin Lewis, Head of Global Engagement and Internal Communications at Reward GatewayFlashback to 7th February 2020. It was the end of an action-packed week where every single Reward Gateway employee had come together at boom!Fest, our biggest internal all-hands employee event.This bi-annual event was a firm favourite among employees. ...
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OpinionRobin Ford: Plugging the pension fund gap during the collapse of Arcadia
Roughly 13,000 Arcadia employees are at risk of redundancy after the group has gone into administration. The financial difficulties they are facing also include concerns over a £350 million deficit in its defined benefit (DB) pension fund.There have been reports of a £350 million deficit in the group’s pension fund, ...
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OpinionGemma Wilson: The investigation into BBC pay discrimination
Following reports of a significant number of women being underpaid by the BBC, in March 2019 the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) launched an investigation into the issue.There have been a number of cases in which women who have worked for the BBC have been successful with equal pay ...
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Supplier articleHow to plan a virtual team building event for remote employees
By Catrin Lewis, Head of Global Engagement and Internal Communications at Reward GatewayFlashback to 7th February 2020. It was the end of an action-packed week where every single Reward Gateway employee had come together at boom!Fest, our biggest internal all-hands employee event.This bi-annual event was a firm favourite among employees. ...
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Article42% of employees desire less work-related stress in 2021
Just under half (42%) of employees wish to experience less stress at work during 2021, according to research by PayFit.Its report, How UK HR priorities have evolved during the pandemic, which surveyed 2,002 UK workers, also found that 85% have experienced work-related worries since the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic took hold ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 39% of organisations offer a group personal pension plan
The most common primary pension scheme offered by employers is a group personal pension (GPP), as offered by more than a third (39%) of respondents, according to research by Employee Benefits.The Employee Benefits Pensions research 2020, which surveyed 94 pension strategy decision-makers found that a GPP has held the top ...
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Supplier articleHow an employee benefits platform can improve employee benefits engagement
It’s one thing having a great range of employee benefits but achieving the engagement levels you know they deserve is a whole different challenge.There are lots of aspects that make up excellent employee engagement. Here we look at one aspect in particular, your employee benefits platform.The return on investment for ...
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Case StudiesIpsos Mori ensures employee wellbeing ranks high on the agenda
At Ipsos Mori, employees are at the centre of everything the organisation does, and it follows that any benefits that are introduced serve the purpose of meeting employees’ needs. This approach means the market research organisation has made a number of changes to its reward stategy in order to support ...
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Case StudiesThe benefits offered by Ipsos Mori
The benefits offered by Ipsos Mori:Pensions and financial wellbeing:A contract-based group self-invested personal pension: employer contribution is 6%, employee contribution is 4%.Lifetime individual savings account (Lisa), workplace Isa and junior Isa.Monthly financial education programme: topics include pensions, credit ratings and financial wellbeing, savings and investments, protection policies and inheritance tax ...
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Supplier article6 trends shaping the future of employee benefits
By Debra Corey, Best-Selling Author & Thought LeaderThe world of work is changing quickly – as it has been reshaped by new workplace demographics, globalisation and technological advancements, businesses must pivot their benefits strategies to meet their employees where they are.In this new environment, businesses must reassess whether their benefits ...
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ArticleHomestyle Pension Company completes £103m bulk annuity buy-in transaction
Homestyle Pension Company has completed a £103 million bulk purchase annuity transaction with Aviva.The arrangement will insure the defined benefit (DB) pension liabilities of all 1,294 members of the Homestyle 2007 pension scheme, removing their investment and longevity risks from the scheme. Members will not see any change in the ...
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Article78% of employers will change ESG use in executive pay strategies
Nearly four-fifths (78%) of employer plan to change the way they use environmental, social and governance (ESG) measures in their executive incentive strategies, according to research by Willis Towers Watson.Its 2020 ESG survey of board members and senior executives, which was conducted in 168 organisations throughout Europe, North America, Asia, ...
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ArticleCouncil agency workers awarded back pay after being paid less than employees
Forty agency workers who collect waste for Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council in the West Midlands will receive thousands of pounds in back pay after they argued they should have been paid equally to employees.The affected staff, who were employed by council-owned employment agency Templink and engaged by Serco on the ...
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ArticleJust Eat to offer couriers hourly pay and benefits
Food delivery company Just Eat is to offer couriers pay by the hour rather than per job in a boost to gig economy workers.The move will mean its workers will earn at least the national minimum wage, increasing the security of their income.Starting in London but with the rest of ...
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ArticleThe top 10 most-read articles between 3-9 December 2020
The top 10 most-read stories on employeebenefits.co.uk between 3-9 December 2020 were: UK private sector pay predicted to increase by 2.4% in 2021.The Royal Household looks to recruit experienced personal assistant.Nationwide Building Society reports 28.3% mean gender and 16.2% ethnicity pay gaps.EXCLUSIVE: 57% concerned about staff not having enough pension ...
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Supplier articleRecognition and wellbeing: Preparing for Christmas
A digital fireside chat with Nudge & Browne JacobsonAs this year finally draws to a close, it could be easy for us to ‘take our foot off the gas’ and coast towards Christmas. But, for some, we’re heading into a volatile time of year, and our employees are going to ...
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ArticleToy Story's Woody awarded employee of the month
Something for the Weekend: Employees at home improvement retailer Home Depot’s branch in Plaistow, New Hampshire, recently found themselves competing for its employee of the month award with an unlikely new colleague.Cowboy Woody, better known for his Toy Story fame, was recruited to the store’s team after he was found ...
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ArticleConfessions of a benefits manager: Candid helps with bonus allocation
This week, I am having another little foray into the frisky world of compensation. Everyone in HR has been enlisted to help managers plan year-end bonuses for their teams. They should not need any help. We have an app for that. The app tells them who in their team is ...
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ArticleWeetabix Food Company reduces median gender pay gap to 4.4%
Weetabix Food Company, which also produces the Alpen and Ready Brek brands, has made further progress in reducing its gender pay gap, closing the median gap to 4.4% as at April 2020, down from 6.6% the previous year.The organisation also reported a mean gender pay gap of 2.46% as at ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 35% of organisations provide financial education to all employees
Just over a third (35%) of organisations provide financial education for all employees, a two percentage point drop year on year, according to research by Employee Benefits.The Employee Benefits Pensions research 2020, which surveyed 94 pension strategy decision-makers, found that although it has decreased slightly, this figure is still much ...