All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 548
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Article
Buyer's guide to electronic voucher cards
Electronic vouchers offer a secure, convenient and environmentally-friendly way to reward and motivate employees with savings on a variety of goods and services.Since Boots launched its Advantage points card for consumers in 1997, major retailers have followed suit, with more progressive employers now providing electronic voucher cards as part of ...
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Article
Louise Phillips moves up at IBM
Her previous role at IBM, which she held for four years, was European HR benefits leader.She has held a range of other roles at IBM since 2003, including Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) HR commercial and engagement consultant and HR engagement manager.
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Opinion
Martin Freeman: Payroll issues around auto-enrolment
Employers should be proactive and get on the front foot rather than waiting around for press releases from their payroll provider on what it will be offering.Go to the provider and say: ‘This is what I am going to need, this is how I want to operate: can you help?’Get ...
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Opinion
David Woodward: Payroll issues around auto-enrolment
Many employers have needed to make changes to their payroll systems and to consider whether their payroll provider can offer what is needed to comply with auto-enrolment regulations.One of our customers has been diligent in its evaluation of the options, thorough in its planning activity and engaged theright professionals at ...
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Opinion
Catherine Wilson: Legal issues around auto-enrolment
Under the new rules, employers will need to keep additional records for compliance purposes. These can be either electronic or paper-based, but they must be legible and easily reproduced.Additional information may be needed, such as dates of birth for casual workers, and some data-cleansing may also be required.Employers should review ...
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Opinion
Sarah Ozanne: Legal issues around auto-enrolment
New employee protections have come into place that apply to all employers, regardless of their staging date. It is notclear that employers are generally engaged on this issue.The auto-enrolment regulations are complex and do not fit well with other pension regulations. Some amendments have now been made to align existing ...
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Opinion
Robert O’Hare: Tax issues around auto-enrolment
It does not appear that auto-enrolment will have any direct tax impact, but there could be an indirect tax impact on employees.For example, the threshold for the maximum amount of annual pension contributions that qualify for tax relief was recently cut to £50,000. If an employee’s annual pension savings already ...
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Case Studies
Golden Gates Housing Trust pilots RTI
Working with its payroll provider, Software for People, the social housing provider completed the RTI process in April after volunteering to take part in HMRC’s pilot scheme involving 10 employers.Sarah Moorcroft, finance and administration offi cer at Golden Gates, says the data cleanse and system updates required for RTI have ...
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Article
Aegon savings role for Andrew Taylor
Taylor joins Aegon UK from Scottish Widows, where he has held various roles over the past two years, including: senior proposition manager – workplace savings platform, senior proposition manager – corporate wrap, and senior proposition development manager.With 24 years’ experience in financial services, Taylor’s previous roles include pension product manager ...
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Article
Jane Vivier joins Amadeus
Vivier has eight years’ experience in reward and benefits, most recently as reward and recognition manager at Cancer Research UK.Previous roles include: senior reward manager at the UK Border Agency, reward adviser at Kent County Council and staff services manager at British Airways London Eye.Vivier will be among the leading ...
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Article
Anneke Heaton moves to Nuffield Health
Heaton’s previous experience in the industry includes: reward and wellbeing manager at IPC, reward manager at the BBC, reward manager at Wolters Kluwer, and compensation and benefits manager at Towers Perrin (now Towers Watson).
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Article
Only People appoints Simon Belton
Belton’s experience in the industry includes a range of in-house and consulting roles, including: interim head of reward at Midlands Co-operative Society, head of pensions at Spirit Pub Company, international benefit consultant at Thomsons Online Benefits, service delivery manager at Hewitt Associates (now Aon Hewitt) and pensions consultant at KPMG.Anthony ...
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Article
Three men join Invesco Perpetual
All three join the firm from Standard Life Investments, where Jubb and Millar were multi-asset portfolio managers and Batty was a member of the firm’s strategic research team.
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Case Studies
Nottingham City Council staff value travel savings
These include pre-Christmas shopping discounts available at most high-street stores, locally and nationally, and a wide array of online discounts, plus post-Christmas savings in the January sales and on summer holiday bookings.The savings that employees can make on travel bookings, often running into hundreds of pounds, can make a difference ...
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Case Studies
WWF conserves staff wellbeing
Initially, this took the form of a one-off week of activities, but has now developed into regular events.Rachel Phillips, payroll and benefits specialist at WWF, says: “I try to do at least one or two activities each month, which could be anything from a nature walk to getting a therapist ...
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Case Studies
Chess makes move for employee health
Although this growth has been positive for the business, Anne Binnie, HR and compliance director at Chess, recognises that this changing environment, coupled with the tough economic climate, makes it even more important to provide a healthy workplace.“We believe keeping our employees fit and well is an important contributory factor ...
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Case Studies
Anglo-American mines staff safety data
But Frank Fox, head of occupational health at the organisation, concedes that investors are currently more interested in employee health in the context of safety than of wellbeing, particularly the Global Reporting Index (GRI), which is a global sustainability reporting framework run by the Global Reporting Initiative. “[GRI] asks for ...
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Analysis
Health benefits on a limited budget
If you read nothing else, read this …Find out what employees think would improve their working environment.Use free services offered by charities or the NHS to improve employee health.Make time for employees to take exercise or other classes during the working day.Involve senior management in promoting health and wellbeing strategies.Turbulent ...
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Article
Employers need longer to plug pension deficits
Organisations will need an extra three years to plug rising pension scheme deficits, taking the average repayment period to 11 years, according to research by accountancy firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC).The research, which covered 98 recent defined benefit (DB) pension scheme valuations, found that, there will be a reversal of previous years’ ...