All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 405
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Edenred adds cash-back offers to employee discount schemes
Edenred has added 1,400 cash-back offers to its voluntary benefits platform.The new offers join the existing discounted vouchers and re-loadable cards across 50 retail organisations.Employees can register on a dedicated website, tailoring their requirements to fit their lifestyle and interests. The offers can also be passed on to family members.Employers ...
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Arbuthnot Banking Group adds to flexible benefits
?Arbuthnot Banking Group is to add health screening, a wine club, vehicle servicing and a tax return service to its flexible benefits scheme.The perks will be offered to group businesses Arbuthnot Security and Arbuthnot Latham during their enrolment periods in June. It has already added them to flex for its ...
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Equity Insurance Group adds to voluntary benefits scheme
Equity Insurance Group has added tax advice and will-writing to its voluntary benefits package and addedan annuity finder to the compensation and benefits pages on its intranet site.The firm has given access to annuity finders provided by Aon Hewitt, Lorica Consulting and Hargreaves Lansdown to encourage staff to make use ...
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News analysis: Osborne's tax conundrum
A proposal to integrate tax and national insurance was the most significant measure affecting reward in the Chancellor’s Budget, says Nicola SullivanChancellor George Osborne’s Budget report last month contained a number of measures affecting pensions, pay and other benefits.One of the most significant announcements was a consultation over the government’s ...
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iThinkSmarter launches workplace health app
iThinkSmarter has launched a cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) application for the iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad to help tackle workplace stress, depression and anxiety.Employers can buy a licence to distribute the app to staff on a year-by-year basis. The treatment package tackles stress by making changes to moods and behaviours.The ...
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Aviva Health research: A third of employers have no key health benefit
Over a third (37%) of employers have no key health benefit in place, according to Aviva UK Health’s 360 Degree Absence Management study.The research, which polled 688 employers, found that 7% of respondents intend to introduce cover in the coming year.The research also found that if employers could introduce any ...
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Headstrong UK wins health and wellbeing award
Headstrong UK has been commended for its commitment to employees’ health and wellbeing with a Simplyhealth Healthy Workplace award.The IT consulting firm offers all of its 104 UK employees private medical insurance (PMI), group life assurance and dental care, as well as discounted local gym membership and a childcare voucher ...
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GeoPost UK extends flexible benefits
GeoPost UK is to extend its flexible benefits scheme to its 3,300 weekly-paid staff in June.The firm introduced flex, provided by Vebnet, for its 1,200 monthly-paid staff last October. Its weekly-paid staff are mainly drivers and warehouse workers.Many of the benefits within flex are offered via salary sacrifice including pensions, ...
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Cheshire West and Chester Council introduces holiday purchasing
Cheshire West and Chester Council has introduced a holiday purchasing scheme which, it projects, will result in annual savings of almost £100,000.Through its new Holiday Plus scheme, the council’s 6,500 employees will be able to purchase up to 10 days a year via a salary sacrifice arrangement. The council has ...
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City and Guilds launches health and wellbeing website
City and Guilds has launched a new intranet site to bring details of its wellbeing benefits together in one place.The site, launched last month, has dedicated pages focusing on healthy living and work, fitness, smoking cessation and mental wellbeing, as well as details of how to access services. There is ...
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Gandhi departs RSA Group
Jerry Gandhi is leaving RSA Group, where he has been group pensions director for more than four years.He will now focus on his role as director of specialist consulting organisation CAP Services.Gandhi was previously group pensions director at Inchcape.Read more careers news
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Intercontinental Hotels Group expands employee discount scheme
Intercontinental Hotels Group (IHG) has re-launched its employee discount scheme to include a wider range of discounts and cash-back offers for its 7,500 UK employees.The Thinking Benefits scheme, provided by Personal Group, now offers more than 5,000 discounts on goods and services, including high-street shops, supermarkets, travel insurance and experience ...
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Fairhead moves to SABMiller
SABMiller has appointed Roger Fairhead group head of compensation and benefits.He moves to the brewer from Prudential, where he has been head of compensation and benefits since September 2009.Before that, he was vice-president, head of international compensation and benefits at Sony Pictures Entertainment.Read more careers news
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WSPA moves payroll giving scheme online
The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) has moved its payroll giving scheme online.The WSPA has offered a payroll giving scheme in place for many years, enabling workplaces across the UK and its own 100 staff, to donate through their salaries. Now, the scheme can be accessed via ...
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Johnson to leave IBM
Sally Johnson, HR pension benefits leader at IBM, will be leaving the company in May after 23 years’ service. Johnson has taken voluntary redundancy.She plans to carry out consultancy work in flexible benefits and pensions, and pursue her love of photography.Johnson started her career in pensions at British Leyland (latterly ...
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Smith steps in for King at Panasonic
Panasonic Europe has appointed Lee Smith compensation and benefits adviser while Beverly King is away on maternity leave.Smith’s previous positions include assignment services consultant at Ernst and Young, benefits and international assignments manager at Catlin, and global benefits manager at Bovis Lend Lease.Read more careers news
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Traynar moves to Zurich
Zurich Financial Services has appointed Jonathan Traynar head of HR services for the UK.Pete Steer, who previously held the role – although it was known as HR payroll and benefits director – has been appointed HR transformation director. The new title for the job is part of Zurich’s overall global ...
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Mazars Financial Planning acquires Redbourne
Mazars Financial Planning, the financial planning and advisory business of accountancy firm Mazars, has acquired the business and assets of specialist employee benefit business Redbourne.Redbourne, which was established in 2000, has been developed by Richard Stewart and Steve Carter, who remain with the business on its transfer to Mazars.Redbourne’s management ...
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Vielife launches lifestyle management programmes
Health provider Vielife has launched a series of interactive online lifestyle management programmes for employees to help employers reduce the cost of sickness absence.The six-week programmes, which are designed to encourage behavioural change and improve wellbeing, cover four key lifestyle areas: stress, sleep, nutrition and physical activity.Employers can offer the ...
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British Airways pension trustee resigns over switch to CPI
Mike Post, a trustee of the Airways Pension Scheme, has resigned over the decision to link members’ pensions payments to the consumer price index (CPI).Trustees of the British Airway’s (BA) pensions scheme voted to switch from the retail price index (RPI) from April 2011.The switch to CPI will mean BA ...