All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 429
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Analysis
Sipps gain a wider appeal
If you read nothing else, read this... Group self-invested personal pension plans (Sipps) are growing in popularity as employers implement schemes to cover an entire workforce. Most second-generation group Sipps have a two-tier structure, with a limited fund choice for most staff anda self-investment option for senior managers and directors. ...
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Article
Locog appoints Sasha Brenner
The London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (Logoc) has appointed Sasha Brenner benefits and policy manager.She moves from Sainsbury’s where she was benefits and reward policy manager for three years, as part of the secondment programme that helps Sainsbury’s staff join Locog alongside its role as key sponsor of ...
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Article
Nationwide Building Society appoints Carol Hosey
Nationwide Building Society has appointed Carol Hosey head of reward and recognition.Her previous roles include group head of employee pay policy and benefits at Lloyds Banking Group, interim head of compensation and benefits at Skandia, and interim group head of compensation at HSBC Insurance Brokers.Read more about reward and benefits ...
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Case Studies
Cheshire West and Chester Council has united approach to reward
When Cheshire West and Chester Council was created from four local authorities, sorting out reward was a daunting task, says Nicola SullivanCheshire West and Chester Council has faced several challenges since it became a unitary authority in April 2009. Previously, west Cheshire had four local authorities: Cheshire County Council, Chester ...
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Article
Fair Care launches pensions auto-enrolment product
Fair Care is to launch a product in August to help employers and staff manage the auto-enrolment and compliance issues associated with the 2012 pension reforms.Smart Pensions, designed for use with plans that operate salary sacrifice arrangements, can be added to the provider’s flexible benefits product. It will help with ...
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Article
Busy Bees Benefits expands product range
Busy Bees Benefits has expanded its product range to include a car care scheme, a bikes-for-work scheme, and a tickets and hospitality service.The car care scheme can be offered by employers to help staff save money on car repair and maintenance costs. If an employer operates its childcare voucher scheme ...
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Spirit Pub Company promotes Sarah Bell
Spirit Pub Company has appointed Sarah Bell head of reward after its de-merger.Bell’s previous role at the group was reward manager, following eight years as reward manager at Capital One Bank Europe.Read more about reward and benefits jobs
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Buyer's guide to off-the-shelf voluntary benefits
Key factsWhat are off-the-shelf voluntary benefits packages?These are prearranged schemes that give employees access to retail offers and discounts. The benefits can be accessed through an online portal, a paper benefits booklet or telephone service. Employees can also purchase reloadable cards for use at various outlets.Where can employers get more ...
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Bruce Sayers starts up benefits consultancy
Bruce Sayers has left DHL Express, where he was senior director of reward and recognition, to open up a pay and benefits consultancy, Bruce Sayers Associates.His previous roles include reward and policy manager at National Grid Wireless and reward and policy development manager at Sequence UK.Read more reward and benefits ...
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HSS Hire restructures core benefits
HSS Hire has restructured its core benefits, adding life assurance, a health and wellbeing package, and changing its maternity and paternity provision.The tool hire firm has also introduced a childcare voucher scheme and an online flexible benefits plan for its 2,200 staff in UK and Ireland. The flex plan has ...
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Article
Confessions of a benefits manager: Executive stress
A global executive evaluation project opens Candid‘s eyes to some ‘rationalisation opportunities’, but the results prove irrationalMost people would be excited to be given such an important project. Global executive evaluation sounds very grand and, I’ll admit, it will look good on my CV, but I have a nasty feeling ...
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Article
Inchcape Retail use Facebook to communicate voluntary benefits
Inchcape Retail is using Facebook to communicate its voluntary benefits plan, Inchcape Employee Advantages Scheme, to its 5,600 employees.The automotive distributor and retailer is using the social networking site after an employee benefits survey indicated staff would respond positively to it. The firm also ran a series of focus groups ...
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Mills and Reeve to launch voluntary benefits
Mills and Reeve is to launch an employee discounts scheme and discounted gym membership on 1 August.The law firm has provided a discounted shopping website for the past six years through provider Perkz but decided to offer a wider selection.Samantha Neaves, reward and HR information systems manager at Mills and ...
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Case Studies
Case study: Telegraph reports tangible benefits from health strategy
Over the last five years, Telegraph Media Group (TMG) has developed a health and wellbeing strategy that has delivered measurable outcomes.Its key results include a significant fall in the number of sickness absence days taken; increases in gym usage; and sizeable reductions in private medical insurance premiums, due to its ...
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The Big Question: Will the government's push to increase payroll giving work?
We ask the experts for their answers … have your say onlineElena Joseph, head of new projects and charity liaison at Workplace Giving UK:?Workplace giving, payroll giving or give as you earn remains a simple concept and we welcome any campaign to increase awareness and take-up.Whether the campaign works remains ...
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Article
Dun and Bradstreet opens quarterly enrolment for bikes-for-work scheme
Dun and Bradstreet’s (D&B) Irish office has introduced a quarterly enrolment period for its bikes-for-work scheme.The scheme launched in January 2011 with the firm’s flexible benefits plan through provider Benefex.It was previously only open for enrolment twice a year.D&B’s Irish operation has grown steadily since it was formed in May ...
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Case Studies
Case study: GSK boosts savings options with Sipp
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) was one of the first companies to launch a second-generation group Sipp in December 2007. It wanted to boost its employees’ opportunities to save, and at a lower cost than buying a Sipp directly from a provider.GSK selected Legal and General to provide and administer its Sipp, which ...
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Article
L'Oreal launches pensions communications campaign
L’Oreal has launched a new communications campaign to engage its 3,000 UK staff with pensions ahead of the 2012 reforms.The drive began in June and will continue until the cosmetics and beauty firm’s staging date in 2013. Matthew Scott, HR compensation and benefits director at L’Oreal, said: “We are trying ...
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Case Studies
Case study: Symantec spreads the good news on reward
Security software provider Symantec has expanded rapidly through acquisition, growing its workforce from 6,500 to 14,000 in July 2005, and reaching 18,500 today. The firm operates in more than 50 countries.Jennifer Reimert, senior director, global compensation at Symantec, says: “One of the challenges of rapid growth was a resulting ‘culture ...
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Case Studies
Case study: Ellipse keeps up with the latest chat
Group risk insurer Ellipse has a very open approach to employees using social media in the workplace. Peter Fenner, marketing manager at Ellipse, says: “We ask employees not to use it on business [computers] as thereis a risk it could spread viruses, but we do keep a couple of laptops ...