Nest unveils new chief people officer
Nest pensions has created a new chief people officer (CPO) role and appointed experienced HR leader April Clark. Clark was previously CPO, insurance, at Saga and has held senior...
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Automatic enrolment
Budget 24: three quarters of employer NI hike ‘will be felt by employees’
Rises in employer national insurance are likely to hit staff wage increases, according to economic think tanks and employment sector leaders, following an Autumn Budget that will increase taxes...
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Budget 24: no change to 25% tax free pension withdrawals
The pensions industry expressed relief that the chancellor decided not to change how much cash people can withdraw from pensions tax-free. Prior to yesterday’s Budget there had been speculation...
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Budget 24: ‘delight’ as chancellor leaves employer NI pension relief alone
Employer fears that chancellor Rachel Reeves would remove national insurance contributions pension relief did not materialise in today’s Budget. The chancellor did announce that the amount of national insurance...
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Budget 24: employer NI hike to 15% prompts pensions and recruitment warning
Employer National Insurance contributions will increase from 13.8 percent to 15 percent from April 2025, chancellor Rachel Reeves has confirmed in the first Budget from the Labour government. The...
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Employer cost challenges increase as 6.7% living wage hike unveiled
The National Living Wage (NLW) will rise from £11.44 to £12.21 an hour from 1 April 2025, chancellor Rachel Reeves confirmed last night ahead of her Budget speech today. ...
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Is your pension messaging relatable? It needs to be if you want engagement
For employees, pensions can seem complicated, or stuffy even, so to engage members successfully communications need to be about the message, not just its delivery, says Steve Watson, director...
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Highlight pension tracing tools to staff, employers urged, as lost pots total £31bn
With people changing jobs more often and the ongoing success of auto-enrolment, the value of lost pension pots in the UK has risen by 60 percent since 2018, representing...
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Government revises pension dashboards rollout plan; still ‘too early’ for launch date
Plans for the rollout of pensions dashboards that will help employees find and assess their pension pots have been revised. Pension minister Emma Reynolds confirmed that the government-backed pensions...
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Employers to see cost hikes if chancellor adds NI to pension contributions and scraps EV salary sacrifice
Employers face a large tax bill if the chancellor levies national insurance (NI) on employer pension contributions and scraps "unfair" tax breaks on electric vehicles, in this month’s budget,...
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BENEFITS UNBOXED PODCAST
Benefits Unboxed
The podcast from Benefits Expert, the title for HR, reward and benefits professionals.
Seasoned professionals examine the challenges and innovations in today’s employee benefits, reward and HR sector. Every episode, they will unbox a key issue and unpack what it really means for employers and how they can tackle it.
The regulars are Claire Churchard, editor of Benefits Expert; Carole Goldsmith, HR director at the Royal Horticultural Society, and Steve Herbert, consultant and rewards & benefits veteran.
Benefits Unboxed – Hybrid work: reality versus rhetoric
Return-to-office mandates are a topic that’s generating plenty of heat in the media, but how closely do the headlines match workplace reality?
In this episode, one of a three-part series of 10-minute podcasts, hosts Claire Churchard and Steve Herbert discuss data that shows remote or home working is on the rise.
We look at what this means for HR, from balancing employee flexibility with business needs, to ensuring benefits packages remain fair and accessible. We discuss the pinch points, and the opportunities, in building the new normal of work.
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