All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 593
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Article
Legislation will help working parents
If passed, the legislation will implement the parental leave and ?exible-working commitments made by the government in November 2012.Under the new measures, working parents will be able to share parental leave following a child’s birth; prospective parents will be allowed to take more time off for antenatal appointments; leave and ...
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Analysis
How to choose a payroll provider for auto-enrolment
IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE, READ THIS…Payroll providers are a key part of the auto-enrolment process.However, not all payroll providers offer an integrated service.Employers should identify any gaps in their payroll provider’s service support as soon as possible.The payroll market spent much of last year under fire from employers and ...
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Article
Leading futurologist to speak at Employee Benefits Connect
Millard likes nothing better than to challenge conventional business thinking, from how call centres are managed to the ways in which people work.Attend this session to gain an insight into how your future employees will think, and how new generations will interact differently because of changes in technology.Even if you ...
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Top line-up of speakers at Employee Benefits Connect
Speakers will include:Louise Aston, workwell director, Business in the CommunityStuart Bailey, managing director - UK operations, Accurate EquityTim Banks, head of sales and client relations, AllianceBernsteinJohn Beadle, global practice leader, performance and reward, Rio TintoStephen Bowles, head of institutional defined contributions, SchrodersPaul Budgen, national business development manager, HSBC Workplace Retirement ...
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Employee Benefits Connect will be time well spent
Visitors can book for single sessions on the topics that are most relevant to them.They will also be able to speak to a variety of suppliers in an easy-to-network atmosphere.Held at the Westminster Park Plaza hotel in central London on 1 March, the event is easy to get to and ...
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Article
The role of payroll in auto-enrolment
Employee Bene?ts Connect 2013 has therefore invited Karen Thomson, associate director of policy, research and strategic visibility at the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals, to talk delegates through how to get the most out of payroll during auto-enrolment implementation.Book your place at www.employeebene?tsconnect.co.uk
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Meet the Employee Benefits Awards judges
The annual awards ceremony will be held on Friday 7 June at the Artillery Garden at The HAC in London.The judges are:Panel chair: Debi O’Donovan, editor, Employee BenefitsPanel chair: Debbie Lovewell, deputy editor, Employee BenefitsPanel chair: Clare Bettelley, associate editor, Employee BenefitsNeal Blackshire, benefits and compensation manager, McDonald’s RestaurantsMasha Boldyreva, ...
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Case Studies
Shop Direct Group sold on pension modeller
Richard Waddilove, head of employee relations and reward at Shop Direct, says: “The tool models people’s current contribution levels and their likely retirement income. Then it compares that against their target and enables them to say to what extent it will close the gap if they increase their contributions by ...
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Opinion
Barbara Allen: Disclosure will aid pay transparency
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill, now passing through Parliament, includes a requirement for quoted UK companies to produce a new forward-looking remuneration policy report and a backward-looking implementation report.The forward-looking report will set out the key elements of an employer’s policy on remuneration, including performance measures used, and the ...
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AnalysisWorkforce analysis is key to auto-enrolment
As the parent company of a range of smaller recruitment ?rms, Adecco will begin auto-enrolling staff on 1 March and will continue doing so at various stages until 2016. The organisation has 3,000 monthly-paid staff, who will all eventually be enrolled into a group personal pension (GPP) plan, while 20,000 ...
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Employers must get up to speed on RTI
This is despite the fact that, from April 2013, employers must report pay-as-you-earn (PAYE) in real time to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) when they perform a payroll process, rather than waiting until the end of the year.Last month, Crunch Accounting’s study of 503 people working in small businesses found ...
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Article
Bluefin appoints Gemma Bullivant
She has moved from Lebara Mobile, where she had been head of HR, reward and engagement since April 2010, responsible for global talent management.Other previous roles in the industry include: HR business partner at Channel 4, national HR manager at Johnson Controls, interim senior HR business partner at Carphone Warehouse ...
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Debi O'Donovan: New dawn in benefits communication
Naturally, this change in our habits is affecting the way bene?ts are being communicated in the workplace. Even where employers have vast numbers of staff who do not use computers in their daily work, most of them are likely to be carrying smartphones. Not maximising this handheld communication is rather ...
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Article
Whitbread adapts pension for auto-enrolment
EXCLUSIVE: Whitbread has launched a dedicated pensions website and adapted its existing trust-based defined contribution (DC) pension scheme to comply with auto-enrolment.The organisation, which owns brands such as Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Costa Coffee and Premier Inn, reached its staging date on 1 January 2013.Its DC scheme now includes new contributions ...
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Staff changes at Sainsbury’s
Charlotte Partridge has been appointed bene?t and reward policy manager, Angie Risley (pictured) group HR director and Peter Hallard head of learning and development.Partridge’s previous roles with the supermarket chain include HR clerk, store trainer, and assistant personnel and training manager. She has been a bene?ts adviser since 2011.Risley was ...
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Opinion
Ian McKenna: Online tools will increase benefits understanding
These fall into various categories. Some tools are designed to help employees better understand their own attitudes to investment and help them reach decisions about the investments in their pension. These would include: risk-profi ling tools to help members understand their attitude to risk; portfolio modelling tools to help explore ...
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Debbie Lovewell: Engaged staff can promote benefits value
I was speaking to a family friend recently who described the fantastic range of bene?ts they were offered by their employer. This friend had joined their current employer later in their working life from a completely different industry, where they had been offered little in the way of bene?ts. So ...
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Opinion
Karen Reid: Staff wellness plays role in engagement
When planning our wellness week, as well as being a ‘fun week’, we were conscious of the important role it should play in employee engagement. Our objective was to encourage staff to take steps towards a healthier lifestyle and set personal goals for the whole year.The week proved extremely successful. ...
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Jennifer Mead joins Matchtech
She previously spent seven years as HR manager at law ?rm D Young and Co.Other past roles include HR consultant at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, HR specialist in various roles in China, and HR specialist at Convergys.Mead is one of Employee Bene?ts’ Hot 100 bene?ts managers 2013.
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Duncan Brown: Reward must re?ect the right behaviour
First, last month Robert Francis QC published the report of the Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust public inquiry on the suffering of patients at Mid-Staffordshire hospital, with 290 recommendations to improve care and the ‘self-serving’ NHS. Health secretary Jeremy Hunt promised a tough new inspection regime, while prime minister David ...