All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 701
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Global expansion drives expatriate benefits review
Lloyds Register, for example, is developing a centralised global mobility service across its international locations, which includes reviewing and benchmarking its HR services and benefits provision, such as its international private medical insurance and relocation package.Doug Rice, director of Jelf International, said: “A number of independent organisations provide benefits benchmarking ...
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AnalysisThe value of health cash plan benefits paid in 2012
Read the digital version of our Health cash plan supplement 2014 in full.
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Confessions of a benefits manager: It's all Greek to me
I am not normally this jumpy, but last month we completed the annual cull process, and have ‘let go’ a number of departmental managers. Letting someone go is an interesting expression to use, when the poor sods clearly didn’t ask to go anywhere.Still, HR was asked to slash the payroll ...
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Reeves & Co to streamline pensions for auto-enrolment
Reeves and Co is to streamline its defined contribution (DC) pensions schemes to comply with pensions auto-enrolment.The accountancy firm will replace its two existing DC pensions with a group personal pension (GPP) following a consultation with a group of staff representatives.Following its auto-enrolment staging date on 1 February, eligible employees ...
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Employee Benefits Awards support mental wellbeing
For the second year, the Employee Benefits Awards will recognise an employer that is excelling in how it manages employee stress and mental wellbeing.The award for Best stress management strategy will recognise employers that have put measures in place to actively identify stress in the workplace or employees that are ...
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Top 10 most read stories this week
The top 10 most read articles on employeebenefits.co.uk from 2-9 January:1. BP and Microsoft access wellbeing scheme2. Average gender pay gap among HR professionals hits £8,844 3. How to motivate lower-paid staff in high-pay cultures4. Shared parental leave could create issues5. 2-3% pay rises most common among HR professionals6. Low-cost ...
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Executives 'boss-napped' over redundancy pay
Something for the weekend…With the economy in slow recovery, organisations are still struggling to meet some employees’ pay, bonus and reward expectations.But members of the French trade union Confederation Generale du Travail went to the extreme by ‘boss-napping’ two Goodyear executives for two days on 6 and 7 January.The union ...
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DOD’s blog: What will workplace wellbeing be like in 2018?
Now that all large and even medium-sized employers have launched pensions auto-enrolment, for better or for worse, attention is turning to wider HR and benefits topics again.The benefits area I am hearing spoken about most is that of employee health and wellbeing. Several benefits advisers and consultants have been promoting ...
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ArticleShareholder returns in employee-owned companies rise 53%
Total return for shareholders in FTSE companies with employee share ownership rose by 53% in 2013, compared to 21% for companies in the FTSE All-share index, according to research by corporate finance firm Capital Strategies and the London Stock Exchange.The UK Employee ownership index analysed 69 FTSE companies where employees ...
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Terra Firma doubles staff pay pot to £35m
Terra Firma paid £35.4 million in wages to its staff in 2013, up from £17.1 million in 2012.The private equity investment firm’s Directors’ report and accounts for the year ended 31 March 2013 showed that the increase was directly related to an increase in activity and revenues for the period, ...
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Employee Benefits Awards go global
The Employee Benefits Awards 2014 will recognise the ongoing globalisation of business by awarding one employer the title Best international or expatriate benefits.The winning organisation will have used its global reward strategy effectively to help drive its business goals. It must operate its reward strategy across two or more countries ...
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Article74% of HR professionals receive a cash bonus
The Employee Benefits Salary survey 2014 , which questioned 361 staff with responsibility for managing benefits and reward in UK organisations, found that bonuses are most commonly linked to the performance of respondents’ organisations (89%), followed by personal performance (74%) and team or departmental performance (12%).A fifth of these respondents ...
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Employee Benefits Flexible benefits survey 2014
1. If you complete the Employee Benefits Flexible Benefits Survey 2014 between the dates that you receive the competition email and midnight on 31 January 2014, you will automatically be registered for the prize draw.2. The promoter of this competition is Employee Benefits, a division of Centaur Communications Ltd (“Employee ...
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Interactive - LinkedIn Discussion Board
Martin Schillig, HR business partner at sports betting organisation Tipico, posed these three questions:Which external environmental changes will affect your reward practice or strategy for 2014??How will these affect your reward practice or strategy??How will you communicate these changes to both management and employees?”Robert Holman, group reward manager at international ...
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Interactive - Top tweets
@PeoplesPension – Good piece on communicating #autoenrolment from @EmployeeBenefit bit.ly/1agTdbd Knowing & understanding your audience is key@WPRLawyers – Interesting piece from @EmployeeBenefit on attitudes to working savings and retirement income ow.ly/snSRe@workinstitute – Learn to motivate your lower paid staff members with this post by @EmployeeBenefit bit.ly/19iep2o@KamwellLtd – Need more info ...
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Top 10 most visited stories on the web
1. BP and Microsoft access wellbeing scheme2. Court rules on disability and work-related stress3. How to motivate lower-paid staff in high-pay cultures4. Cisco cuts healthcare costs by 8.5%5. Confessions of a benefits manager: Focusing on employee communications6. Average gender pay gap among HR professionals hits £8447. The Body Shop launches ...
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Interactive - The month in numbers
11 cubic metres – The legal minimum amount of space employers must provide to all employees (Cover story: How offices can affect employee health and wellbeing).17.85% – The percentage of salary per employee that East Coast Mainline contributes to its final salary pension scheme (Employer profile: East Coast Mainline).£4 – ...
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Google and Telefonica support Employee Benefits Connect 2014
The one-day conference aim to inspire innovation among delegates by giving a future view of employee benefits strategy and the marketplace.By taking just a day out of the office, delegates will be able to hear thought leaders, such as Natasha Rice, director of reward and recognition at Telefonica Europe (O2); ...
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AnalysisCommunication strategies to engage staff with pensions auto-enrolment
If you read nothing else, read this…When communicating auto-enrolment, employers must remember their audience, make it relevant and start early, using various communication methods.Communications must be tailored to individual employees. Technology is a key factor in engaging staff with auto-enrolment. Before communicating the details of how auto-enrolment will work and ...
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Debbie Lovewell-Tuck: Wellbeing can fight the blues
All too often, good intentions around exercise and healthy eating go out of the window with the promise that we will be good when the weather starts to improve.With this in mind, the winter months might not seem like the most appropriate time to launch or promote health and wellbeing ...