All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 774
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Santander and Samsung drive flex take up with effective communications
Santander and Samsung have a strong focus on communication to help staff make informed decisions and to maximise take up of their flexible beenfits schemes.Speaking at Employee Benefits Live 2014 in a session titled ‘Flexible benefits to drive employee engagement’, Elliot Rees-Davies, head of reward at Santander, explained that the ...
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ArticleEmployee Benefits Live 2014 speaker slides
Where speakers have given approval, we have uploaded the slides for sessions at Employee Benefits Live 2014.We would like to say a huge thank you to all our speakers for their inspiration, ideas and input in to Employee Benefits Live 2014. Day 1- 24 September 2014 KN1- Redesigning the? employee ...
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ArticleVirgin Money to award staff £1,000 share bonus
Virgin Money is to grant each of its 2,800 permanent employees £1,000 in shares at its initial public offering when the bank floats on the London Stock Exchange.With the exception of directors and senior management, the retail bank will award the shares to its employees a year after it floats, ...
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Article23% saving the most they can afford for retirement
Less than a quarter (23%) of respondents are saving the most they can afford into a pension, according to research by Friends Life. Its UK Retirement savings map, which surveyed 18,000 UK adults, benchmarked how active respondents are in saving into a pension. The North East, Scotland and the North ...
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Case StudiesDanone opens flex window for lifestyle changes
The organisation, which won ’Most engaging benefits package’ at the Employee Benefits Awards 2014, opens benefits windows for such staff every month for certain benefits.These benefits include childcare vouchers, the pension scheme, retail vouchers, gym membership and access to its health cash plan.The monthly windows open for any employee who ...
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Case StudiesBNP Paribas opens flex windows during related events
Such events have included corporate social responsibility fairs and health and wellbeing fairs, which enable the organisation to communicate the flexible benefits on offer and open windows to help increase engagement and take-up.Its scheme, provided by Vebnet, allows staff to make changes to childcare vouchers, bikes for work, retail vouchers ...
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ArticleDebbie Lovewell-Tuck: Balancing pay expectations with pension costs
All employees naturally want to achieve the best standard of living possible, and human nature dictates that many will base this on what they can afford to buy and do with their take-home pay.However, by focusing on their short- or even medium-term future, some employees could be overlooking the bigger ...
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ArticleEmployee Benefits Awards 2015 categories
BEST STAFF TRAVEL POLICYMost effective travel strategy for business and perk car driversBEST HEALTHCARE AND WELLBEING BENEFITS – SMALL EMPLOYERMost effective healthcare and wellbeing strategy for employers with fewer than 1,000 staffBEST HEALTHCARE AND WELLBEING BENEFITS – LARGE EMPLOYERMost effective healthcare and wellbeing strategy for employers with more than 1,000 ...
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Article81% offer some form of flexible benefits
The popularity of flexible benefits plans has risen in the past ten years with 35% of respondents offering full flex compared to 11% in 2004, according to research by Staffcare.Its See the benefits: A whitepaper on the latest trends in flexible benefits and technology report, which surveyed 108 HR professionals, ...
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Rolls-Royce switches healthcare trust provider
Rolls-Royce has switched providers for its healthcare trust.Its new agreement, under which the healthcare trust will be provided by Alliance Surgical, will enable Rolls-Royce to develop a full occupational health strategy.This will enable the organisation to promote employee health and wellbeing throughout the business, with a core focus on health ...
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ArticleCourt rules employers are liable for lost pension rights
Employers could be liable to pay pension contributions to employees that are found to have been unfairly dismissed and have lost out on pension rights as a result.However, in such cases, employers must also be aware of the types of tribunal guidance on which such calculations can be based, the ...
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ArticleEmployee fails to win claim for outstanding sick pay
An employee has appealed against the initial ruling in an unfair dismissal case, Mr Clutch Auto Centres v Blakemore.The employment tribunal ruled that the claimant was still an employee of the respondent, despite the claimant arguing that he had been wrongfully dismissed and the respondent claiming that he had resigned. ...
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ArticleHyde Group to add new perks to flexible benefits
EXCLUSIVE: The Hyde Group is to introduce a number of new flexible benefits during its next annual enrolment window to reflect staff preferences.Following feedback from employee surveys, the organisation will introduce dental insurance, an individual savings account (Isa), critical illness cover and salary sacrifice arrangements for mobile phone and technology, ...
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AnalysisRedesigning an employee value proposition in today's economic climate
If you read nothing else, read this…Regardless of what it offers, an employee value proposition (EVP) must be authentic and true to an organisation’s brand and culture if it is to attract today’s talent.A compelling EVP is less about pay and financial reward, and more about workplace culture, work-life balance ...
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Kloud creates an employee value proposition to help recruit and retain staff
Claire Langford, resource manager at the organisation, says: “When it comes to recruitment and retention, we are up against the major league, so we’ve had to build our strong, flexible culture into our benefits suite because we can’t compete with the bigger players on salaries .“Many employees would rather work ...
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ArticleGovernment updates BYOD guidance
Employers need to consider key security aspects when allowing employees to bring their own devices to work following updated guidance from the government’s National Technical Authority for Information Assurance. The government has updated its bring-your-own-device (BYOD) guidance for employers following a rapid increase in the use of mobile devices and ...
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AnalysisThe impact of an ageing population on employee benefits
Improving longevity is unquestionably a global trend driven by major improvements in health and medical advances.The greying workforce is particularly pronounced in the developed economies of Europe, the US, Australia and Japan. For the emerging economies of India, Mexico, Brazil and Indonesia, it is much less of a concern.But is ...
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ArticleMisys promotes Anne Teggart
Anne Teggart is the new head of global benefits at Misys after being promoted from her previous role of head of performance and pensions.She is now responsible for the organisation’s benefits strategy.Teggart previously worked at Sapient as head of reward for Europe, and before that was at Sony Pictures and ...
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ArticleHelen Jackson joins Lloyds
Helen Jackson has been appointed head of performance and reward for Lloyds Banking Group’s retail and insurance divisions.Acting as the link between the business and group performance and reward, she will also be responsible for leading the reward agenda.She was previously executive reward director at Diageo and has held reward ...
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ArticleKirsten Bromilow joins salesforce.com
Kirsten Bromilow has joined cloud technology firm salesforce.com as a benefits analyst.Part of the total reward team, she will be responsible for managing benefits across the EMEA region.Bromilow worked at Google UK as an HR business partner and benefits specialist for three years, before taking some time out to be ...