IDS PAY PLANNING FOR 2012 CONFERENCE

9.00

REGISTRATION AND COFFEE

9.30

WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS FROM THE CHAIR

Katharine Turner, Principal, Executive Compensation and Rewards, Towers Watson; Vice President, Performance and Reward, CIPD

09.35

Pay and Labour Market Trends: Prospects for 2012

Alastair Hatchett, Head of Pay and HR Services, IDS

Understanding pay and labour market trends is essential to help make decisions on rewarding staff.

• Key developments in pay and reward
• Inflation, earnings and the labour market
• The impact of Government policies on pay
• Pay prospects for the coming year

10.15

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK 2012

Professor Ken Mayhew, Pembroke College, University of Oxford

The turbulent economic environment is not quite behind us yet...

• The outlook for the world economy
• Economic forecast for the UK
• Sovereign debt
• The emerging supply side policies of the Coalition
• Higher education and the economy

10.55

MORNING COFFEE

11.15

PAY SETTLEMENTS: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR DEVELOPMENTS

Ken Mulkearn, Editor, IDS Pay Report

Detailed discussion and analysis of:

• How inflation has influenced pay setting
• Sector-by-sector analysis of pay trends
• Long-term deals and productivity
• Employers’ intentions for 2012

11.50

THE REWARDS COMMUNICATIONS PARADOX

Duncan Brown, Principal, Reward and Engagement, Aon Hewitt Consulting

An analysis of how reward messages are delivered to employees and strategies to ensure that your messages are positively communicated and understood.

• Wonderful technology
• But lousy understanding of rewards
• Wrong media
• Wrong messages
• Resolving the paradox: being open, fair and transparent

12.30

Q&A WITH SPEAKERS

12.50

lunch

13.50

CASE STUDY: DEVELOPING A REWARD STRATEGY AT PRUDENTIAL

Simon Moffat, Senior Reward Consultant, Prudential

Designing a reward strategy is crucial for any business, particularly in tough economic times. Simon will take you through a case study of his experience at Prudential:

• Evolving reward strategy based on historical and future challenges
• Importance of knowing and agreeing the role of HR and the Business
• Linking performance to reward - absolute or relative?
• Being fit for purpose

14.25

THE TRADE UNION AGENDA FOR 2012 – PAY BARGAINING IN THE RECOVERY

Nicola Smith, Chief Economist, TUC

Cover the key economic and policy issues impacting on the trade union pay bargaining agenda for 2012:

• What the state of the recovery means for pay bargaining
• Trade union bargaining priorities
• Public and private sector pay
• Future prospects for industrial relations

15.05

afternoon tea

15.25

CASE STUDY: REWARD POLICY AT NISSAN MOTOR MANUFACTURING (UK) LIMITED

Phil Burrows, Manager HR (Strategy and Planning), Nissan Motor Manufacturing (UK) Ltd

Remaining competitive as a high cost manufacturer is a challenge. Nissan Sunderland was one of the first companies that moved out of the recession by winning new contracts to build new model vehicles and export them out to the rest of Europe. Explore how the reward policy at Nissan has impacted this ‘competitiveness challenge’.

• Context — brief history of the factors that have shaped the reward policy and practice at Nissan
• What is the current reward policy and practice
• The competitiveness challenge – the impact of the reward policy on competing for new models

16.05

KEY DEVELOPMENTS IN EMPLOYMENT LAW

Steve Gibbons, Director, Ergon Associates

The coming year holds a number of important changes to employment law. A review of the key developments and their impact on pay and remuneration, including:

• New rules on agency workers
• Significant changes to maternity and parental leave rights
• Review of the Working Time Directive

16.45

Q&A WITH SPEAKERS

17.00

CLOSE OF CONFERENCE