All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 215
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University of Wales Institute introduce on-campus health checks
The University of Wales Institute, Cardiff has introduced health checks and a series of workplace wellness events as part of a new health and wellbeing strategy.Employees will be given the chance to have regular health MOTs including blood pressure and cholesterol tests. Participating staff will also be given advice on ...
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WHSmith staff to rebrand package
WHSmith is inviting its staff to help rebrand its benefits package prior to the launch of an online portal that will help communicate the perks on offer.The move is part of a communications drive designed to increase employee awareness of their benefits. It will be the first time that the ...
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Benefits portal at Vodafone
Vodafone has created a benefits portal to enable staff to access personalised information about all of their perks in one place.The launch of the portal is part of a communication campaign, which has rebranded the package 'The Deal'. The firm's 10,000 UK staff can view total reward statements and information ...
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University of Glasgow switches staff to salary sacrifice pension plan
The University of Glasgow has automatically enrolled employees into a salary sacrifice arrangement for making pension contributions.The university administers two defined benefit schemes: its own final salary plan and the industry-wide Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS). Members of both were automatically placed into the salary sacrifice arrangement, but given the opportunity ...
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Asda offers Christmas perks to staff
Asda is to launch festive instant reward scratch cards to boost employee morale and motivation during the Christmas period.The scheme, called 'Thanks for going the extra mile', will allow line managers to nominate members of Asda's 4,500 store-based workforce to receive a card which, when scratched, will reveal a prize. ...
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Heinz launches voluntary benefits scheme
Heinz has revamped its reward offering by launching a voluntary benefits scheme to 3,500 of its employees.The scheme will be introduced across the organisation at the end of November, when staff will receive a discount card they can use at a variety of retailers to purchase household essentials, petrol and ...
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J Sainsbury issues all staff with total reward statements
J Sainsbury has sent total reward statements to all its staff to highlight the benefits they are entitled to.In the past, total reward statements were only distributed to the store’s 1,246 senior management staff but in October, it sent the statements out to all 150,000 employees.The paper-based statements contain details ...
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Home Retail Group introduce online health assessments
Home Retail Group has introduced an online health assessment programme to help improve employees' wellness and increase their awareness of the health and wellbeing benefits available to them.The online test is free for all 54,000 staff and can be accessed from work or home. It takes about 20 minutes to ...
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Kier relaunches voluntary plan and promotes perks
Kier Group has relaunched its voluntary benefits scheme, while running benefits and pensions surgeries to boost employees’ engagement with their perks.The construction firm sent a 20-page benefits booklet to employees’ home addresses, containing details of all the discounts and offers available to them. These include childcare vouchers, discounts on insurance ...
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TJX rejigs discounts
TJX Europe has provided staff at its TK Maxx and Homesense retail chains with cards that offer discounts at local and national retailers and restaurants.The cards have been handed out to around 15,000 permanent and 5,000 temporary staff in more than 220 stores in the UK and the Republic of ...
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National Express extends sharesave scheme
National Express has launched a new sharesave scheme which has been extended to National Express East Coast (NXEC) for the first time.The move follows a successful bid by National Express to take over the contract to run the East Coast Main Line franchise from GNER last year.National Express had previously ...
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DSGI extends share deal to store managers
DSG International has extended share option benefits to some 700 store managers across the UK to increase motivation and sense of ownership.The retail giant, which owns Currys, Dixons and PC World, previously only awarded its most senior managers share options, but now store managers will receive a grant worth around ...
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Roche adopts flex to gain ground in the war for talent
Roche is introducing flexible benefits for its UK workforce to increase employee motivation and remain competitive when competing against larger employers for staff.The flex scheme, provided by Thomsons Online Benefits, is set to go live in January 2009 and will initially be offered to the 1,900 UK-based staff in the ...
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TUI Travel completes first phase of its journey to benefits harmonisation
TUI Travel has completed the first phase of its move towards benefits harmonisation 12 months after it was created following a merger between First Choice Holidays and the tourist division of TUI, owner of Thomson Holidays.Harmonisation of the terms and conditions of the 19,000 employees in the company's UK and ...
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BT overhauls final salary pension scheme
BT is planning to overhaul its defined benefit (DB) pension scheme after its deficits rose by an estimated £5bn this year to approximately £16bn, as well as review its defined contribution plan.The telecoms group is considering raising the retirement age from 60 to 65 years, increasing employee contributions and switching ...
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Analysis
Employee Benefits Health and Wellbeing Supplement 2008
Interview with Will Cavendish, director of health and wellbeing at the Department of HealthBalancing the need for both health and wellbeing perksMake sure there are no gaps in group riskWays to cut the cost of healthcare and wellbeing benefitsDealing with stress and mental health problems in the workplaceHow to cut ...
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Workers see cut in hours at small firms
A third of the UK's small and medium sized businesses are considering reducing the number of hours their employees work in order to save money, according to research by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).In a sample poll of 4,633 FSB members, 32% of respondents reported they considering making such ...
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SBJ Group acquires pension firm EB Consultants
Employee benefits consultancy firm SBJ Group has announced today that it has acquired EB Consultants, a specialist fee-based actuarial and pensions administration firm.The expansion will see Surrey-based EB Consultants, which employs 50 people, come under the banner of SBJ in the new year, when the company will be rebranded under ...
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Stress levels up as UK adults put in the hours at work
Employees are working and worrying more, often for no financial reward as the dowturn begins to bite, according to research from Friends Provident released today, National Stress Awareness Day.The Britain under pressure survey found that while 25% of adults intended to put more hours in at work, UK employees are ...
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CIPD Reward Forum: HMRC scrutinises salary sacrifice on staff canteens
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is continuing to look very closely at the way employers use salary sacrifice in relation to onsite meals for staff. Speaking at the CIPD Reward Forum, David Reilly, client services director, Grant Thornton said that HMRC is looking particularly closely at Giro-style cards where employers ...