All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 561
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Asda saves with company car scheme
EXCLUSIVE: Asda has seen cost savings of around £950,000 a year since it switched from a cash allowance to a company car scheme in 2010.Asda has used the savings to improve the choice and specification of the cars available through the scheme.The grocery retailer had 1,500 employees eligible to take ...
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Fire authority to launch salary sacrifice car scheme
Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service will launch a salary sacrifice car scheme as part of its flexible benefits plan.The scheme allows eligible employees to exchange a portion of their salary in return for a new car package. It is focused on low-emission and fuel-efficient cars.Mydrian Harries, head ...
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Video — Staffcare auto-enrolment technology event for employers
This video has been supplied by our channel sponsor, Staffcare.Managing the complex administration and compliance requirements of auto-enrolment requires robust yet flexible technology. Staffcare’s Auto-Enrolment Portal can be used with any type of pension, any provider and any HR or payroll system; so it doesn’t matter if things change in ...
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VIDEO: Jenny Davidson: Using flex to deliver auto-enrolment
Jenny Davidson, head of reward at CSC Computer Sciences, discusses why her organisation is using its flexible benefits platform to deliver pensions auto-enrolment to staff.
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JLT Growth Fund available for use in GPPs
JLT has made its growth fund available to members of group personal pension (GPP) plans.Aegon is the first pension provider to offer this option for employers to include in their GPP investment selection.The JLT Growth Fund was launched in May 2012 for individuals wanting a diversified growth fund.Paul Armitage, head ...
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Shell wins award for international share plan
Royal Dutch Shell has been awarded the title best employee share ownership plan worldwide at the Employee Share Ownership Centre (Esop Centre) awards.The multinational oil and gas company had previously won the award in 2010. Since then it has increased its communications and introduced a dedicated website for its share ...
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PQM awarded to three more employers
Three more employers have been awarded the Pension Quality Mark (PQM), which recognises good quality defined contribution (DC) pension schemes.Global biopharmaceutical firm Bristol-Myers Squibb was recognised with the PQM for its group personal pension (GPP) plan. Controls and process automation firm Koso Kent Introl and national charity Motability were awarded ...
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Unilever awarded top family-friendly employer
Unilever has been recognised as the top employer for family-friendly working in Workingmums.co.uk’s Top Employer Awards.The multinational consumer goods company was praised for its policies that encourage female career progression and flexible working.The Top Employer Awards celebrate organisations that promote family-friendly working practices.The winners were:Innovation in flexible working – Unilever.Employee ...
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VIDEO: Louise Beardmore: How HR can drive business
Louise Beardmore’s highly-rated presentation at Employee Benefits Live 2012 left delegates inspired and informed.View the 20-minute video of her presentation: Driving the engagement agenda despite current budgetary contraints.Beardmore’s key lessons include how the HR and reward function engages line managers so that they can translate and enable the stategies HR ...
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Nationwide shelves plan for benefits cap
EXCLUSIVE: Nationwide Building Society has shelved plans to cap employee benefits for older workers after a review concluded that the cost of provision did not yet outweigh the value of the package to employees.The review, led by HR director Robert Aldrich and an external law firm, was triggered by a ...
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Video: Shawn Healy: Benefits tax issues
Shawn Healy, tax director at accountants BDO, was one of the tax experts on hand for delegates to speak to at Employee Benefits Live 2012.In this video, he shares some of the key concerns about salary sacrifice raised during his free one-to-one sessions.
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Corporate gym membership – buyers’ guide
Employee Benefits’ Benefits Research, published in May 2013, shows that just 12% of employers offer gym membership as a core benefit to all employees, compared with 17% four years ago in 2009.The Benefits Research also shows that many employers (12%) are offering employees the benefit through their flexible benefits schemes, ...
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VIDEO: Charlotte Sweeney: Needs of carers must be taken seriously
Employers must take the needs of carers more seriously, said Charlotte Sweeney, diversity and wellbeing specialist.During an interview with Debi O’Donovan, editor of Employee Benefits, at Employee Benefits Live at the end of September, Sweeney said that the change in employee demographic means that far more people in the workplace ...
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Total People wins NIC motor mileage case
Total People has won an appeal to overturn an Upper Tribunal decision made in favour of HM Revenue and Customs over motor mileage national insurance (NI) claims.The case relates to a NI claim made by the organisation based on the difference between HMRC’s 40p per mile allowance rate and the ...
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Flexible working could challenge pay strategy
Proposals to reform flexible working and parental leave could raise questions on how to fairly compensate an employee working flexibly.The standard approach of apportioning pay might need to be reviewed and replaced by organisations rewarding flexible workers more closely based on their outputs and productivity levels, said Dawn Nicholson, HR ...
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VIDEO: Joanne Segars: Pension charges are HR issue
The HR community has an important role to play in putting pressure on pensions providers and advisers to push down charges and create better value, according to Joanne Segars, chief executive of the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF).It is essential that HR managers look at pensions charges when selecting ...
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VIDEO: Nita Clarke: Why UK PLC should take staff engagement seriously
Nita Clarke, co-chair of the Employee Engagement Task Force and Engaged for Success, explains how UK businesses could be losing up to £60 billion in productivity due to lack of staff engagement.
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David MacLeod and Nita Clarke: Importance of employee engagement
David MacLeod and Nita Clark, co-chairs of the Employee Engagement Task Force, delivered the keynote session at Employee Benefits Live on 26 September 2012.On Monday 26 November, the Employee Engagement Task Force will officially launch the next phase of its plans to increase the engagement of UK employees.View the video ...
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Ellipse launches new income protection product
Ellipse has launched a second group income protection plan.The plan, Interact, offers employers a 10% reduction in their premium if absences are notified promptly, or if no employee is absent for more than four consecutive weeks during a year.It has also added single life policies to its group life product ...
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Plantronics increases staff engagement
EXCLUSIVE: Audio electronics firm Plantronics has increased its employee engagement levels by more than 20% since it launched a flexible working initiative in 2011.The flexible working initiative, which is open to all 300 employees, allows them to amend their hours to better fit work around their personal lives, such as ...