All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 632
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Case Studies
Holiday Extras spreads the word on flexible benefits
The first phase was designed to inform employees that the scheme was coming and involved newsletters and intranet announcements, as well as tasking staff representatives, known as people ambassadors, with communicating the scheme’s launch to colleagues around the business.The second phase was designed to communicate details of the scheme and ...
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Employees feel employers support their wellbeing
More than half (58%) of respondents believe their employer does enough to support their wellbeing at work, according to research by CIC.The research, which surveyed 46 delegates at CIC’s Wellbeing and You seminar, looked into the issue of happiness, health and wellbeing in the workplace.Employer wellbeing support initiatives received by ...
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Small employers face shareholder dissent over pay
One in five small UK organisations has experienced major objections from shareholders to their pay packages in 2013, according to research by KPMG.The research, which analysed shareholder voting at annual general meetings up to 31 May 2013, found that 20% of the FTSE small cap index had votes against their ...
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Quarter of employers not satisfied with auto-enrolment product
EXCLUSIVE: More than a quarter (28%) of respondents believe they do not have the right auto-enrolment product in place for their organisation after reaching their staging date, according to research by Benefex.The research, which surveyed 100 employers that have already been through auto-enrolment, found that the top challenge was the ...
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Manufacturers lose faith in fit note system
British manufacturers have lost faith that the government’s fit note programme is getting people back to work, according to research by manufacturers’ organisation EEF.The 2013 EEF/Westfield Health sickness absence survey, which questioned 353 employers, indicates that improvements in sickness absence seen in recent years have now plateaued and that further ...
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Uni of Lincoln staff take part in global challenge
EXCLUSIVE: The University of Lincoln has launched its fourth annual Global Corporate Challenge.The challenge, which began in May and will continue until September, will include a range of activities that focus on employee health and wellbeing.The university had four teams when it first participated in the programme in 2009, but ...
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Fitness First to launch master trust for auto-enrolment
Fitness First has launched a master trust pension scheme to comply with its auto-enrolment duties.The health club group will enrol nearly 700 employees into the scheme, provided by Now: Pensions, on its staging date of 1 August 2013.Neil Tune, HR director at Fitness First, said: “Finding the right partner to ...
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Gym and exercise breaks can increase productivity
Providing breaks for employees to visit the gym or to exercise during office hours could help to increase day-to-day productivity, according to research by specialist HR recruitment firm Ortus.The research, conducted among 570 HR professionals, found that 52% of respondents said gym and exercise breaks would boost work levels.Other popular ...
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Total reward for senior civil servants down by 17%
Total reward for senior civil servants has been reduced by around 17% in real terms over four years, according to a report by the National Audit Office (NAO).The report concluded that, owing to pay freezes and changes to pensions and benefits, promotion in the senior civil service is becoming so ...
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Pensions Bill passes second reading in House of Commons
The Pensions Bill passed through its second reading in the House of Commons on 17 June.The Bill was introduced into the House of Commons on 9 May 2013, following the Queen’s Speech.During the speech, it was confirmed that the Pensions Bill will introduce a state pension system which will replace ...
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East Coast Mainline revamps voluntary perks
EXCLUSIVE: East Coast Mainline has added a bikes-for-work scheme to its online voluntary benefits scheme, run health and wellbeing roadshows, and extended its recognition scheme.The bike scheme, which was introduced in May and is provided by Halfords, had 40 employees take it up within its first month.The health and wellbeing ...
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Employees use holiday allowance for sick leave
More than a quarter (26%) of respondents used their holiday allowance rather than take time off sick, according to research by Canada Life Group Insurance.The research, which surveyed more than 1,000 UK employees, found that 10% have felt tempted to use their holiday allowance in this way, while 64% were ...
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Simplyhealth and Robertson Cooper launch online wellbeing community
Simplyhealth has partnered Robertson Cooper to launch an online wellbeing network designed to support employees’ health, wellbeing and resilience in the workplace.Good Day at Work is a free online community where employees and employers can access resources to help improve their levels of wellbeing, as well as share ideas and ...
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Employers reward staff for green behaviour
Copper Consultancy and Richmond Towers Communications are the first employers to launch a new employee engagement and reward programme, which is designed to help organisations embed a culture of sustainability and healthy living.The programme, Jump: Healthy Planet – Healthy Team, rewards employees for taking positive steps that both improve the ...
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Top 10 most read stories this week
Most common causes of absenceQuarter of employers not satisfied with auto-enrolment productTop tips for communicating flexible benefitsPhilips launches retirement guidance serviceGovernment to set out plans for collective DC pensionsUni of Lincoln staff take part in global challengeEmployees feel employers support their wellbeingFitness First to launch master trust for auto-enrolmentPensions Bill ...
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DOD’s blog: What I learnt about US mobility managers’ jobs
This week I had the privilege of joining my Forum for Expatriate Management colleagues at their Totally Expat Show in New York, USA.Chatting to several US-based HR and mobility managers at the event, I picked up some interesting insights:In the US, mobility managers are as likely (or more likely) to ...
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NHS boss appears as Superman in anti-stress film
If all bosses went to the lengths one NHS chief has to promote wellbeing at work, we may be all fitter.Phil Morley, chief executive of Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, dressed up in a Superman costume and performed in a video intended to encourage employees to be fit ...
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Dairy Crest increases voluntary benefits take up
EXCLUSIVE: Dairy Crest has seen an increase in the take up of its voluntary benefits scheme, since it launched a new online plan last year.More than a third (1,700 of 5,000) of its employees are now registered for the scheme. Its previous scheme, which was paper-based, attracted only about 40 ...
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Tapestry launches online global share plan service
Law firm Tapestry has launched an online service and database to help manage the global legal compliance aspects of an employer’s share plans.The system covers many types of plans, including:Deferred share bonusEmployee stock purchasePerformance share plans and restricted stock unitsRestricted share plansShare optionsSavings-related share optionsShare match and co-investmentCash plansIt also ...
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Auto-enrolment will trigger benefits reviews for SMEs
Auto-enrolment will trigger wider reviews of employee benefits among small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), according to research by MetLife UK.The study, which questioned 500 HR directors from SMEs employing fewer than 250 employees, found 51% of respondents will either definitely or probably review the benefits they offer ahead of auto-enrolling ...