All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 539
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Managing employee expenses
If you read nothing else, read this… Many people believe it is acceptable for an employee to fiddle or exaggerate expenses when they work long hours but are not paid overtime. Corporate policies allowing senior staff to claim for first-class travel reinforce aculture of expenses as benefits. The Bribery Act ...
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Pensions: what are enhanced transfer values?
If you read nothing else, read this… An enhanced transfer value (ETV) is the value an employer offers an employee for their defined benefit (DB) fund in return for them transferring out. Employers typically use ETVs as a risk management tool with which to reduce long-term DB liabilities and costs. ...
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Interview with Tim Taylor, group head of reward at TUI Travel
Tim Taylor, group head of reward at TUI Travel, is keen to spread the best aspects of the organisation’s UK-based benefits to its workforce across the globeTim Taylor, group head of reward at TUI Travel, may work for a travel business, but that doesn’t lessen the challenges of providing reward ...
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Spectrum’s voluntary benefits scheme attract 54% of staff
EXCLUSIVE: In July Spectrum Housing Group added GymFlex, a discounted gym membership to its voluntary benefits scheme, and has plans to add a bike to work scheme.This follows a 54% take up of the voluntary benefits scheme, ‘MyBenefits’, which is offered through Asperity Employee Benefits.Launched in April, it offers 3,000 ...
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Tim Kensey joins Acromas
Tim Kensey has joined Acromas Holdings as HR director, group reward and Saga services.His previous roles include international employee engagement director at The Body Shop, global HR and talent manager, retail network at Shell, and head of UK compensation and benefits at Shell International Petroleum Company.Read more about careers in ...
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SJ Berwin adds car hire and enhances life assurance in flexible benefits relaunch
Law firm SJ Berwin has introduced a car hire scheme through Zipcar and enhanced its life assurance coverage as it relaunches its one-year-old flexible benefits scheme.The car hire scheme, available via a salary sacrifice arrangement, offers employees a range of low-emission cars on a pay-as-you-go basis, with hire periods ...
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News analysis: Meeting reward challenges in Asia
Business opportunities abound in Asia, but there are specific challenges that reward and benefits managers from the UK must face, says Debi O’Donovan The Confederation of British Industry has called on employers to look to Asia to harness greater business opportunities. With Office for National Statistics figures for August showing ...
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Heinz promotes Anne Sewell
Heinz UK and Ireland has promoted Anne Sewell to the post of HR director.Sewell has been with Heinz since 2002 and previously held the positions of HR business partner and head of HR for Heinz UK and Ireland Commercial.She also previously held a role based in Heinz’s world headquarters in ...
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SAP appoints Neil Hopkinson
SAP has appointed Neil Hopkinson as total rewards partner.As part of the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMCA) reward team, he will be responsible for partnering with the wider HR team and the business to advise on all internal compensation and benefits maters across the UK and Ireland.Read more about ...
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Zara Loughrey joins Arqiva
Arqiva has appointed Zara Loughrey head of reward.Her previous roles in the industry include: UK head of HR at Pall Europe, reward director at Babcock International Group, reward and policy manager at NATS, benefits and policy specialist at Eli Lilly, and reward specialist at IBM.Read more about careers in reward ...
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Marriott International benefits go a la carte in Asia
EXCLUSIVE: Marriott International is to launch a semi-flexible, a-la-carte benefits plan in Asia to improve its employee value proposition (EVP) in the region.Speaking at Employee Benefits Live Asia in Singapore in August, Jim Pilarski, chief human resources officer Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa at Marriott International, said the hotel ...
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Risley leaves Lloyds Banking Group
Angie Risley has stepped down as group HR director HR director at Lloyds Banking Group after five years at the organisation.Risley said the time had come to consider taking another role.Rupert McNeil has been appointed to succeed Risley as group HR director at Lloyds.Read more about careers in reward and ...
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Vinci UK increases staff spend on voluntary benefits plan
EXCLUSIVE: Vinci UK has increased the employee spend on its voluntary benefits plan by 100% through a series of new communications programmes.Transactions via the construction firm’s employee discounts site has increased to £20,000 per month, up from £10,000 at the beginning of 2012.Gemma Concannon, benefits manager at Vinci UK, said: ...
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Fair Care launches health screening campaign
EXCLUSIVE: Fair Care Employee Benefits has launched a campaign to encourage employers to offer health assessments in the workplace.Its Get checked campaign focuses on health screening, pointing out that schemes are tax-free when offered via a salary sacrifice arrangement.Fair Care will send mailshots to existing clients as well as carrying ...
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D Young staff take part in charity run
EXCLUSIVE: Employees of D Young and Co took part in a charity run as part of the law firm’s focus on health and wellbeing.The firm has taken part in the JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge in Battersea Park for several years, but the 2012 run saw its highest attendance yet, ...
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Seagate Technology to reduce employee medical costs
EXCLUSIVE: Seagate Technology says co-sharing medical costs with staff will reduce the annual employee medical inflation level for its Singapore operation to 2-3% in 2012.In 2008, the global producer of hard drives experienced medical inflation of 10.6%.In 2010, it became one of the first companies in Singapore to introduce co-sharing. ...
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Serco recruits Julia Warren
Serco Group has appointed Julia Warren HE director, UK and Europe, as part of its newly-formed UK and European division.Warren was previously HR director at Thomson Reuters.Read more about careers in reward and benefits
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Sarah Maddox moves to UK Mail
UK Mail has appointed Sarah Maddox HR director.She was previously at National Express for 14 years, starting in 1998 as HR officer and progressing to the role of head of HR.Read more about careers in reward and benefits
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Easyjet employees receive £4,600 each as sharesave matures
EXCLUSIVE: Easyjet employees received an average payout of £4,600 each as a sharesave scheme matured on 1 August. The highest payout was £12,000.There were 780 employees in the sharesave, which is provided by Yorkshire Building Society.It has been offered every year for eight years, at a discount of 20%.Ken Lawrie, ...
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Telefonica launches first phase of auto-enrolment communications
EXCLUSIVE: Telefonica has launched the first phase of its auto-enrolment communications campaign, focusing on the non-members of its pension scheme.The campaign, which is part of a package of communications services from Caburn Hope, will include a second phase later in 2012.The telecommunications firm has 6,000 employees, with around 50% in ...