DAY 1

Benefits strategy

• why do companies provide benefit plans?
• positioning benefits within the overall reward strategy

Benefit plans in focus

• company cars
• insured risk benefits

Flexible benefits

• business case for flex
• designing and implementing a flexible benefits plan
• demonstration of online flex
• voluntary benefit programmes
  

Understanding income tax, capital gains, IPT and social security taxes

• income tax
• social security taxes and state benefits
• insurance premium tax
• capital gains tax
• pension scheme taxation
• employee share scheme taxation
• international assignment taxation
• termination payments

DAY 2

Pensions

• social security (state pension)
• occupational pensions – key concepts
• market practice
• pension trusts
• pension contracts
• pension plan design in focus
• investment strategy
• current issues

Share schemes 

• company philosophy
• share scheme currencies and taxation
• share plans in focus – key features

Long-term incentive plans (L-TIPs)

Action planning.