All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 543
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Opinion
Martha How: Olympian journey for benefits
This comment is written by the sponsor of the Employee Benefits/Aon Hewitt Flexible benefits supplement 2012The year 1948 was momentous for Britain and for benefits. London hosted the Olympic Games, the National Health Service (NHS) was founded and the basic state pension was introduced.This year, amid the excitement of the ...
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Employee Benefits Live 2012 25-26 September National Hall, Olympia, London
Employee Benefits Live is Europe’s largest reward and benefits event, and this year, with the move to Olympia National Hall, the Show is set to be bigger and better than ever.With 38 free Conference sessions featuring top employers presenting inspirational case studies, over 100 leading reward and benefits providers offering ...
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BHSF partners occupational health provider
BHSF Group has partnered occupational health service provider PTH Group, which will form a new division called BHSF Occupational Health.Peter Maskell, chief executive at BHSF, said: “We perceive that the market for occupational health products is large and growing, and see PTH as a significant addition to our capability in ...
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City University hosts wellness day for staff
EXCLUSIVE: City University hosted a wellness day for its 2,500 staff to educate staff on the importance of a healthy lifestyle and to highlight its health and wellbeing benefits.The wellness days have been held since 2008, and are part of the university’s wellbeing campaign Well.Clara Correa-Zappa Demilew, wellbeing and safety ...
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Sainsbury’s takes 5,000 employees to Paralympics
Sainsbury’s gave 5,000 employees the chance to watch events at the Paralympic Games on 3 September, including wheelchair basketball and goalball.The Paralympic sponsor will also send a further 70 employees and a guest of their choice to the games’ closing ceremony at the Olympic Park.Jacki Connor, director of employee engagement ...
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Employee Benefits Flexible benefits supplement 2012
Employee Benefits has published a report on the latest trends and topics in flexible benefits schemes.The report covers:Is it possible to offer too many benefits through a flex scheme?Employer profile: GE harmonises perksOpinion: Peter Reilly of the Institute for Employment StudiesTop tax tips
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Employee Benefits/Premier Pensions and Workplace Savings Research 2012
Download the full report here.Key findingsAuto-enrolmentRetail Distribution ReviewSchemes on offerAttitudesWorkplace savingsInvestmentSponsor’s commentHear Debi O’ Donovan, editor of Employee Benefits, discuss the results of the research in a webinar, produced by PremierEditor’s commentWith just months to go before the UK’s largest employers must comply with the incoming auto-enrolment pension reforms, many ...
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Opinion
John Puddephatt: Winning plans for flex
A core set of four to 10 benefits are present in most UK [employers’] flexible benefits plans. There is a long list of other common benefits.Most employers with successful mature plans that have been in place for five or more years add one to two benefits a year and, at ...
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UK staff unsure of value of pension
Over three-quarters (76%) of respondents said they have no idea of the value of the workplace pension pots they have built up in their careers, according to research by Prudential.The research, which surveyed more than 2,000 UK employees, also found that one in six (16%) have lost track of their ...
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Opinion
Lesley Fidler: Tax best practice
Unless tax specialists are working at the giddy heights where tax planning merges into tax avoidance/political outrage, the substance of a transaction is usually of little concern. Down at ground level in the well-trodden realms where payroll and flexible benefits schemes collide, it is the form the transaction takes that ...
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Hanover staff host team building exercise
Hanover Housing Association staff have hosted a team-building exercise at retirement estates in Bicester and Stokenchurch.A group of employees organised the Apprentice-style competition, which raised money from staff and local community donations, and suppler discounts to make improvements at two residential sites.One of the two teams, called Velocity, used donations ...
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Compupaye Bureau promotes RTI with staff bonus
EXCLUSIVE: Compupaye Bureau is offering staff a bonus for the successful completion of a real-time information (RTI) quiz during National Payroll Week, from 3-7 September.The quiz is designed to get the payroll services firm’s staff up to speed on RTI reporting, which will be mandatory for UK employers from April ...
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Opinion
Peter Reilly: Small employer? Think big for flexible benefits
Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) have an immediate disadvantage compared with large organisations when it comes to flexible benefits. They cannot use scale to obtain discounts, nor do they have the funds to offer a full range of benefits. So SMEs must use their imagination to create attractive and appropriate ...
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Padraig Floyd: Get back to basics on savings
There is a storm raging around charges associated with pensions saving. Now, I’m all for punters getting value for money, but that is a long way from claiming all pensions are a ‘rip-off’.The perception of being short-changed is partly the fault of poor government legislation, but some blame must be ...
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Opinion
Helen Dean: Time for change
This industry forum is supplied by Nest.With the major changes happening to workplace pensions from October, it is important that employers of all sizes start thinking about their own arrangements as soon as possible, because it can take up to 18 months to prepare.They will need to consider everything from ...
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Opinion
Charles Cotton: Take care with Christmas perks
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development’s Employee outlook: summer 2012 survey, published in May, found that more than half of employees are facing financial struggles, so it is important that employers recognise this when introducing or changing an incentive scheme, especially one that is themed around, or linked to, ...
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Opinion
Caroline Jowett-Ive: I wanted that true global remit
Viewpoint: Caroline Jowett-Ive, group vice-president reward at TravelportFor Caroline Jowett-Ive, group-vice president reward at Travelport, a global role was always her preferred destination.After starting her reward career in a UK reward and benefits post at Virgin Mobile, she was offered the chance to move to Virgin Management, the holding company ...
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Confessions of a benefits manager: A taxing situation
I want you to know it was not my decision to start giving the Higher Beings cash to fiddle their taxes. Until now, we have given them an allowance that they could use with any firm for financial planning advice, and all they had to do was claim it on ...
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Debi O'Donovan: Plan now for Christmas perks
You may feel September is a little early to start talking about Christmas, but please bear with us on this one because we are not banging the usual commercialised tinsel drum here.In fact, we are donning full HR stripes in our cover story to look at how some employees can ...
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UK directors' average pension pot is $4.3m
Directors of the UK’s FTSE 100 companies have built up pension pots worth an average of £4.3 million, according to research by the Trades Union Congress (TUC).The tenth annual PensionsWatch survey, which analysed the pension arrangements of 351 directors from FTSE 100 companies, found that the average transfer value for ...