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	<title>Parity Training appoints Enrich for healthcare and risk benefits</title>
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	<description>Parity Training has appointed benefit and reward consultancy firm Enrich as its healthcare and risk adviser.</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Azzurri aligns 17 schemes and launches flex benefits</title>
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	<description>Azzurri Communications has implemented online flexible benefits for their 700 employees and aligned its 17 pension schemes.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:29:00 +0100 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Mercer hires employee benefits strategist from Friends Provident</title>
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	<description>Mercer has hired Katharine Photiou as a principal in its strategic benefits consulting and delivery team.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon,  6 Jul 2009 00:00:00 +0100 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Flex packages should reflect employee age</title>
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	<description>Factors such as age, gender and income greatly affect the employee benefits chosen by employees, Mercer research reveals.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:13:00 +0100 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Aegon withdraws from group risk market</title>
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	<description>Aegon has withdrawn from the UK group risk market in a bid to reallocate capital to businesses with higher growth and return prospects.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed,  3 Jun 2009 00:00:00 +0100 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>JLT launches Budget tax change services</title>
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	<description>Jardine Lloyd Thompson Private Clients has launched a range of services in a bid to help identify Budget tax change issues.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:00 +0100 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Recession puts reward strategies under the spotlight</title>
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	<description>The recession is causing many companies to carefully consider employee reward strategies, a report by Thomsons Online Benefits shows.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 12:17:00 +0100 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Long-term sickness absence rates increase</title>
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	<description>Some 36% of employers have recorded an increase in long-term sickness absence since 2007, research reveals.</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 12:48:00 +0100 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>B&amp;amp;CE urge firms to use salary sacrifice</title>
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	<description>Two-thirds of employers are missing out on massive National Insurance contribution savings by ignoring salary sacrifice arrangements, B&amp;amp;amp;CE Benefit Schemes.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 11:08:00 +0100 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>M&amp;ouml;lnlycke launches salary exchange</title>
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	<description>M&amp;amp;ouml;lnlycke Health Care has launched online total reward statements and pension salary exchange in the UK in conjunction with Thomsons Online Benefits.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri,  8 May 2009 11:10:00 +0100 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Buck Consultants launches redundancy management service</title>
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	<description>Buck Consultants has launched a service designed to help line managers address the needs of retained staff at each stage of a redundancy process, and keep a focus on the future.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri,  1 May 2009 09:49:00 +0100 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Damovo appoints fleet manager</title>
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	<description>Damovo has appointed Zenith Provecta to manage its 100 strong vehicle fleet.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:39:00 +0100 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Low cost perks rise in bid to boost staff</title>
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	<description>Low cost perks, such as time off in lieu, increased holidays and greater training support, have increased as employers attempt to re-motivate staff, a survey shows.</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:20:00 +0100 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Buck Consultants to rebrand healthcare business</title>
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	<description>Buck Consultants is set to rebrand its healthcare business as Health &amp;amp;amp; Productivity this month.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri,  3 Apr 2009 00:00:00 +0100 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Mercer replaces employee benefit technology provider</title>
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	<description>Mercer has entered into a strategic alliance with the Staffcare flexible benefits technology platform to support its employee benefits and total rewards administration business.</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:35:00 +0100 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Total UK launches staff voluntary benefit scheme</title>
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	<description>Total UK has launched total reward statements and voluntary benefits for 1100 of their UK-based employees.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:13:00 +0000 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Zurich launches green travel-to-work scheme</title>
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	<description>Zurich Financial Services has introduced a new green benefit for its UK staff offering reduced rate travel on public transport.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:24:00 +0000 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Law firm issues flexible benefits programme</title>
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	<description>International law firm Trowers &amp;amp;amp; Hamlins has launched an online flexible benefits programme with Thomsons Online Benefits.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 10:11:00 +0000 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Incisive launches YouChoose package</title>
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	<description>Business-to-business publishing company Incisive Media has launched a flexible benefits package for its UK staff.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri,  6 Mar 2009 11:09:00 +0000 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Depressed workers fear stigma when returning to work</title>
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	<description>People returning to work after trauma such as cancer are at a greater risk of developing depression but fear telling their employers, research reveals.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:29:00 +0000 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Inchcape launches voluntary benefits programme</title>
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	<description>Car retailer Inchcape has switched its UK employee benefits provider to broaden its benefit offering and increase employee engagement.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:49:00 +0000 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>More than half of employers provide no flex package</title>
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	<description>More than 62% of employers do not offer their staff any kind of flexible benefits package, the first Vebnet Reward Survey reveals.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 12:23:00 +0000 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Zurich enters group corporate risk market</title>
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	<description>Zurich has entered the group risk market with the launch of Zurich Corporate Risk.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>IPD launches flexible benefits package</title>
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	<description>Real estate performance analysis provider IPD has launched an online flexible benefits scheme for its 200 employees.</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:06:00 +0000 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Polish-language information videos boost hotel’s benefit uptake</title>
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	<description>Hotel group Malmaison and Hotel Du Vin has seen employee benefit uptake increase 60% since online information videos were launched in English and Polish.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon,  9 Feb 2009 10:08:00 +0000 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Mon Motors hires AFFS as pension and EB service provider</title>
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	<description>SOUTH Wales-based car dealership Mon Motors has hired Alexander Forbes Financial Services to provide it with pension and employee benefits services.</description>
	<pubDate>Mon,  9 Feb 2009 00:00:00 +0000 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Firms fight to stave off redundancies</title>
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	<description>Employers are using a range of methods to stave off the need to make staff redundant, the chartered institute of personnel and development says.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:38:00 +0000 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Renumeration a key boadroom issue</title>
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	<description>Executive remuneration is the key boardroom issue facing FTSE250 companies and will impact their ability to weather the economic downturn, Hewitt New Bridge Street says.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:47:00 +0000 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Tesco gives workers festive day off to say thank you</title>
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	<description>Tesco workers will be able to take advantage of an extra day&apos;s paid holiday as a thank you for their work during the festive season.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2008 11:22:00 +0000 GMT</pubDate> 
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	<title>Four in ten workers fear for pensions </title>
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	<description>FOUR in ten workers fear their pensions provision will not be sufficient for a comfortable retirement, research by JLT Benefit Solutions shows.</description>
	<pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:33:00 +0000 GMT</pubDate> 
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