All Employee Benefits articles in Web Issue – Page 938
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ArticleEY and Sackers named Top Employers for Working Families
Cisco, Deloitte, Pinsent Masons and Sackers are among the winners at the 2016 Top Employers for Working Families Special Awards.The annual awards celebrate organisations that demonstrate flexible and family-friendly workplace practices. The winners were announced across seven categories during a ceremony in London on 13 June.The full list of winners ...
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ArticleImperial Chemical Industries Pension Fund agrees £630m buy-in
Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI) Pension Fund has completed a £630m buy-in.The bulk annuity transaction with Scottish Widows covers 4,000 members of the pension scheme.The pension fund was advised by LCP and Allen and Overy on the buy-in transaction.Heath Mottram, chief executive officer at the ICI Pension Fund, said: “This buy-in ...
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ArticleDiscover how to tackle pensions auto-re-enrolment at Employee Benefits Live
Employee Benefits Live 2016 will tackle pensions auto-re-enrolment issues as part of its Workplace Pensions conference stream.Graeme Wyllie, head of pensions, UK and Ireland at the Royal Bank of Scotland, and Jill Cunnison, head of reward at Capital One, will explain how they have overcome the challenges of communicating complex ...
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ArticleUS taxi firms offer to settle employee-status disputes
Several cases concerning employee status have taken place in the US as drivers for two taxi platforms dispute their classification as independent contractors in favour of being classed as employees and receiving the benefits that this affords.Lyft has proposed a revised settlement agreement for the Cotter v Lyft class action ...
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ArticleUW Credit Union to increase minimum pay to $15 an hour
US-based financial services organisation UW Credit Union is to increase the minimum pay rate for staff to $15 an hour (£10.60).The increase in its minimum pay rate, known as the Foundation Wage, is expected to impact around 25% of the organisation’s 500-strong workforce.The increase will be implemented in stages, with ...
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ArticleBBC Parliament staff strike over pay grade dispute
Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) at the BBC Parliament channel are conducting a 24-hour strike in a dispute over pay grading and recognition.The dispute has been raised over the banding of grade 5 broadcast assistants who produce content for 24-hour channel BBC Parliament. Staff who perform comparable ...
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ArticleAmazon, Expedia and L’Oreal USA commit to US government’s equal pay pledge
Almost 30 organisations, including Amazon, Expedia (pictured), and L'Oreal USA, have agreed to the US government’s Equal Pay Pledge in a bid to reduce the gender pay gap across the country.In total, 28 private sector organisations have committed to the Equal Pay Pledge, which was announced by the White House ...
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ArticleSamantha Gee: How can employers use reward to improve job satisfaction?
With the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) reporting the lowest job satisfaction for over two years in its Spring 2016 employee outlook: employee views on working life report, published in May 2016, it is worth taking a look at the impact of reward. In particular, how smart are ...
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ArticleSelin Kudret: How can employers use reward to improve job satisfaction?
In order to unleash the potential of organisational rewards for enhancing employee wellbeing and performance, organisations should understand the nature of employee needs that these rewards fulfil, and hence the power of need fulfilment in eliciting desirable employee outcomes.Need fulfilment is an integral aspect in employment relationships. The main rationale ...
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ArticleSara Duxbury: How can employers use reward to improve job satisfaction?
When an employee receives recognition and reward for their hard work they tend to be more satisfied and engaged with their role, often having more positive attitudes towards the workplace. Reward can come in all shapes and sizes, from financial incentives such as bonuses, to non-monetary reward such as further ...
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ArticleProfessor Sir Cary Cooper: How can employers use reward to improve job satisfaction?
There are several ways in which employers can use a reward-orientated strategy to improve job satisfaction. In order to do this, the employer has to understand what drives employee motivation. For many employees, the drivers of job satisfaction are the intangibles of having more autonomy in their jobs, feeling more ...
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ArticleBirds Eye and Siemens to share insights at Employee Benefits Live 2016
A key focus of Employee Benefits Live 2016 will be how organisations can use employee benefits strategically to support key business issues and objectives.Delegates will learn the invaluable art of managing packages in the face of economic uncertainty, as well as how to be creative with their total reward offering ...
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ArticleEXCLUSIVE: 28% rate their intranet as very valuable
EXCLUSIVE: Overall, employer respondents perceive more established forms of technology as holding much greater value for their organisation than some of the newer developments to enter the market, according to the Employee Benefits/Xerox HR Services Benefits research 2016, published in June 2016.On a rating scale of one to five, with ...
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ArticleSD Worx acquires Ceridian UK and Ireland
HR service provider SD Worx has acquired human capital management technology organisation Ceridian UK and Ceridian Ireland in a full share acquisition.SD Worx and Ceridian will also create a partnership to deliver cloud human capital management software across Europe, including a long-term agreement to develop and provide global human capital ...
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ArticleTop 10 most read stories this week
The top 10 most read stories on www.employeebenefits.co.uk between 9 and 15 June 2016: 73% believe UK staff are likely to call in sick following UEFA Euro 2016 matches61% see improved employee performance through investment in workplace cultureStandard Life holds awareness event in support of working carersEY and Sackers names ...
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ArticleLouise’s lowdown: Changing work and care paradigms
May 2016 saw the launch of the Creating longer, more fulfilling working lives: employer practice in five European countries report, conducted by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) on behalf of the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD). This looks at how other countries are adjusting to lengthening lifespans ...
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ArticleRobot lands trainee office manager job
Something for the weekend: Betty the robot has started work as a trainee office manager at The Transport Systems Catapult (TSC), carrying out tasks such as greeting guests at reception.Betty runs using artificial intelligence-driven software. This will enable her to patrol offices, assess how many staff members are in the ...
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Is the war for talent back on?
Recent official employment figures from Her Majesty’s Government are rather impressive.According to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) press release issued on the 18th May:The employment rate in the UK has hit a record high of 74.2%The unemployment rate remains at 5.1% (the lowest in a decade and below ...
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Carer friendly: time for employers to wake up?
Over the years we have written extensively on the subject of working parents and childcare on this blog. For this we make no apology, as this topic is often under-reported and the impact on employer and employee alike is often not fully appreciated. For more on this topic please see ...
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Article84% of female healthcare respondents have never asked for a pay rise
More than three-quarters (84%) of female respondents who work in the healthcare sector have never asked for a pay rise compared to 71% of male respondents, according to research by Randstad Care.Its Assessing the lack of senior opportunities for women in nursing report, which surveyed 486 UK healthcare professionals, also ...