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Environmentally attractive reward packages post Covid-19

03 August 2021 / Ian Goodwin
Issue: 4803 / Categories: Comment & Analysis
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Sustainable rewards

Key points

  • Making employees’ rewards sustainable may also help reduce business costs.
  • Government uses tax legislation to encourage greener company car options.
  • Could the employer go further by offering other environmental benefits to employees such as solar panels heat energy pumps electric vehicle charging points?
  • Electronic vehicle charging units may play a key role in adapting a business’s travel strategy.
  • Salary sacrifice arrangements may reduce National Insurance costs of providing a company car as well as potentially open up company cars to more employees.

The past 18 months or so may seem like a strange dystopian vision similar to one of those slow moving TV drama series that we get immersed in and are unable to remember what happened before it all began.

Since March 2020 society has been in lockdown with many businesses and employees using government support and initiatives to help remain in...

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