Do you offer a Group Income Protection scheme? Changes to Employment & Support Allowance could affect it.
Posted on 22nd December 2016
In April 2017, changes are being made to Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). The knock-on impact for Group Income Protection schemes could mean premium increases for employers offering this benefit. At the moment, ESA is paid by the State to people who are unable to work because of illness or injury. There are two rates of ESA: the Work Related…
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Why all SMEs should have integrated HR & Payroll services (& software)
Posted on 20th December 2016
OK – let’s get the conflict of interest out of the way, Ink provides HR and Payroll services (and software) to SME businesses across the UK. That said, we still can’t believe how few businesses we talk to integrate their key people management functions and use technology to deliver a great user experience to both administrator and employee. We still meet…
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Heron Foods appoints Ink as employee benefits adviser
Posted on 19th December 2016
Heron Foods Ltd, the East Yorkshire-based frozen foods retailer, has a workforce of 3,000 people across the UK. We are delighted to announce that, after an in-depth review of their advisers, Heron Foods has appointed The Ink Group to provide advisory, broking and administrative services to their range of employee benefits. Ink will provide its Benefit Tracker service to the…
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Autumn Statement Highlights for HR, Payroll and Employee Benefits
Posted on 23rd November 2016
Philip Hammond delivered his first Autumn Statement on 23rd November. There were many talking points, but we’ve highlighted those that may be of interest from an Employee Benefits, HR and Payroll perspective: The National Living Wage will increase to £7.50 per hour from April 2017. The earnings at which Employer and Employee National Insurance threshold will be aligned to £8,164…
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Life at Ink – Mina Patel (Account Manager)
Posted on 15th November 2016
If you’ve read Mina’s profile on our team page you’ll know that she is one of our original employees and, therefore, a real ‘cornerstone’ of our team. What you won’t know from reading Mina’s profile is that when we offered Mina a job she was pregnant with her second daughter and this was a fact she didn’t try to conceal. …
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Life at Ink – Agnieszka Wyatt (Account Manager)
Posted on 15th November 2016
Agnieszka joined our team in March 2016, having competed with a strong bank of candidates for a trainee Account Manager role in HR. Agnieszka demonstrated to us that she was bright, enthusiastic, happy to ‘muck in’, and not fazed by the weight and variety of client calls we receive on a daily basis. In a short period of time, Agnieszka’s…
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A “beefed-up” Pensions Regulator on the horizon?
Posted on 26th October 2016
The Pensions Regulator is looking to gain more power to deal with the problem of final salary schemes being vastly underfunded and, in the case of BHS, going into the Pension Protection Fund (PPF). In recent evidence to a Parliamentary inquiry, the Regulator set out its desire to have a greater role in investigating high-risk schemes and to run more…
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The Ink Group agrees Private Medical Insurance deal with AXA PPP
Posted on 26th October 2016
The Ink Group is delighted to announce a new strategic partnership with AXA PPP Healthcare, one of the leading Private Medical Insurance providers in the UK. AXA PPP will act as the default provider for new schemes brought to the UK market by Ink, as well as the default benchmark for existing insured schemes. Whilst Ink Employee Benefits Ltd remains…
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Family Leave: don’t let a friendly policy backfire
Posted on 17th October 2016
Poor old Network Rail. Once upon a time it championed the cause of the working mother and, to prove it, paid significantly over and above the statutory level for maternity pay. And then came Shared Parental Leave: a vehicle designed in some respects to redress the gender imbalance of child-caring and to enable professional mothers a quicker return to work…
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First Aid – it’s more than a tick in the box
Posted on 9th September 2016
We sent our Account Manager, Agnieszka, on a refresher First Aid course recently and asked her what she thought of the experience. Was it just a process to be got through? Was it just a tick in the box? Not at all! Here’s what she told us when we asked her more about it … Q: What’s the most significant…
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