All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 309
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Employee Benefits Summit: You can bank on Monte Carlo
Leading benefits managers will be gathering on 9-11 June in Monte Carlo for the fifth annual Employee Benefits Summit.Benefits managers from large organisations who have not attended this summit before are invited to request a free place by emailing lucy.jones@centaur.co.ukTo view a full programme, go to: www.employeebenefitssummit.co.uk
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Employee Benefits launches new research into workplace health benefits
Would you like to receive privileged access to a new piece of research into UK employers' health and wellbeing strategies?We would value your input into the Employee Benefits Healthcare Research 2010. If you respond by the time the survey closes on 22 April, we will send you an advance copy ...
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Health and Wellbeing Conference: Free place for health conference
This one-day event will, uniquely, bring together leading employers, providers and consultants for a mix of conference and networking. There will be joint plenary sessions for all delegates, plus separate sessions for advisers and employers.Delegates already attending include Alliance Boots, Schlumberger, Eon and National Grid.For a full programme and to ...
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Employee Pensions Summit: Delegates invited to workshops
Six leading pensions firms will run dedicated workshops for small groups of delegates at the Employee Pensions Summit: The future of workplace retirement savings on 13-14 April.Consultants from Bluefin, Scottish Widows, Standard Life, Thomsons Online Benefits, Towers Watson and Wealth At Work will run the workshops.Topics covered will include: selecting ...
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Employee Pensions Summit: Reach the summit on pensions
Employee Benefits is running a two-day summit on 13-14 April looking more closely at best practice for the role of defined contribution (DC) pensions within reward, as well as how other forms of employee savings are developing in employee benefits packages.The Employee Pensions Summit will equip delegates with knowledge on ...
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Survey finds that dental benefits improve employee morale and reduce sickness absence
The percentage of companies that believe dental benefits improve employee morale has risen from 51% in 2008 to 67% in 2010, according to healthcare provider Simplyhealth’s Annual Dental Survey conducted by Opinion Matters.The survey, which polled 250 HR managers and more than 1,000 working adults in the UK, also found ...
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Amey aims to build fitness with staff health initiatives
Infrastructure provider Amey has launched online health assessments, diet clubs and a pedometer challenge for its 11,000 employees.The wellbeing initiatives aim to address misconceptions about the health and fitness of Amey's workforce.Wellbeing manager Helen Knight said the idea that people who worked on outdoor projects were healthy was often untrue. ...
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Equity Insurance Group offers flexibility as share incentive plan is opened to all UK staff
Equity Insurance Group has introduced a share incentive plan (Sip), which opened to all its 1,100 UK employees on 5 March.This is the first employee share scheme launched by the company since it was bought by Insurance Australia Group in January 2007. The last time Equity Insurance Group had a ...
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News analysis: Tax ruling is spoke in the wheels for cycle-to-work schemes
Clarification of the tax rules on cycle-to-work schemes is causing many employers to rethink their arrangements, says Jennifer PatersonAn increasing number of employers are having to review their cycle-to-work schemes after the Department for Transport (DfT) clarified the implementation guidance for these schemes last October, and HM Revenue and Customs ...
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Asperity offers fast track to deliver reward
Asperity Employee Benefits has launched a reward and recognition module that can be added to its Reward Gateway product.The RealTimeReward programme enables employees to be nominated for a recognition reward, for this to be approved, and for the reward to be given in less than an hour via an electronic ...
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Jason Taylor moves to Hewitt Associates
Hewitt Associates has appointed Jason Taylor as senior associate. Taylor was previously managing director of benefits provider Benefex and has moved across following last September's partnership between Hewitt Associates and Benefex. Taylor has nine years' experience in benefits and human resource outsourcing, having also worked for Ceridian and Northgate Rebus.He ...
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Aviva widens flexible benefits scheme
Aviva is to extend its flexible benefits scheme to an additional 4,700 employees and will launch a voluntary benefits plan.When the flex scheme's annual enrolment period opens next month, it will be extended to 4,000 employees at Aviva-owned roadside recovery firm RAC and 700 staff in Aviva's fund management business, ...
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Mayer Brown switches voluntary benefits provider
Law firm Mayer Brown International has switched providers for its online voluntary benefits plan and concierge service. It has moved its plan, available to 600 staff at its central London offices, from Xexec to Asperity Employee Benefits.The plan, called 'Mayer Brown advantage', offers discounts at more than 1,500 retailers using ...
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Shire Pharmaceuticals offers helpline as bonus sacrifice scheme take-up falls
Shire Pharmaceuticals has seen a drop in take-up of its bonus sacrifice scheme from 17% to 11% year on year.To help its 315 eligible staff make a decision around the scheme, which enables them to sacrifice their bonus into the pension plan and save tax and national insurance, the Basingstoke-based ...
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Damian Cannell joins Bovis Lend Lease
Damian Cannell has been appointed reward manager at project management and construction company Bovis Lend Lease, replacing Lee Smith.Cannell joined the company from Anglian Water Group, where he held the position of reward manager for three years.From 2003 until 2007, Cannell was HR manager (reward) at BG Group.
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McGraw-Hill launches breast screening initiative
Publishing firm McGraw-Hill has introduced on-site breast screening offered via salary sacrifice for staff and partners.The service is provided by BreastHealth UK, and McGraw-Hill is aiming to look after its female staff, particularly those aged under 40, who do not qualify for breast screening on the NHS. Of its 1,200 ...
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Research: Dental perks bring a smile to staff
Dental benefits are seen as an integral way to improve staff morale and reduce sickness absence.In Simplyhealth's Dental Survey 2010, 67% of respondents believe dental benefits improve morale, up from 51% in 2008. The figure for companies that believe dental benefits reduce absence has also increased, from 30% in 2008 ...
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Shilling Communication employees coin in gold stars to invest in shares
Shilling Communication has launched a performance-related incentive scheme that awards staff a value to invest in shares from the company's clients.Its Investar scheme awards 'gold stars' to its 30 staff for excellent work. They can then invest the value of the stars into the shares of one or more of ...
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Euan Hutchinson's global role at Skype
Euan Hutchinson has been appointed global head of reward and human resources operations at Skype.He joined Skype on an interim basis in November 2009 after more than eight years as head of reward for Europe, Middle East and Asia at Hewlett Packard. Previously, Hutchinson was manager of human capital services ...
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TD Waterhouse expands wellbeing plan
TD Waterhouse international is to extend its health and wellbeing programme to 170 staff based in its Birmingham office.The stockbroker acquired these staff last October when it bought outsourced clearing and settlement services provider OMX Securities, which has now been rebranded as TD Corporate Services.From June, Birmingham-based staff will be ...