"We are reviewing enhancements to our remuneration, benefits and reward packages to enable us to recruit and retain top talent in the business at every level," said MacLennan.
Numerous schemes have been introduced to incentivize public health workers particularly doctors such as allowing locums, establishment of private wings, and direct salary increments but the difference with private sector remuneration benefits remains significant.
This may well be scaring banks into handing out bigger pay deals than they might otherwise have wanted to for 2013, the last year before the limits come into force, and is also having the perverse effect of apparently pushing up the fixed part of remunerations (salary, benefits).
Flexibility in the way people work is often cited as the biggest non-remuneration benefit possible, and this is only increasing with the millennial generation in the workforce.
"I was happy to do so since my relationship involves no non-exec [functions], remuneration or benefits or lobbying interests".
"As in-demand candidates continue to be in the driver's seat, employers are needing to offer competitive remuneration and benefits packages above industry averages," she said.
A desirable employer with competitive remuneration and benefits will ensure an excellent response during recruitment efforts, she said But it's not just about having the right person for the job.
"When I started work in the 1970s," recalls Vicky Wright, global head of remuneration and benefits consulting for Hay Group, a pay consultancy, "a lot of people would join a company at 16, 18 or 21 and expect to stay right the way through.
Ms Adams, outgoing director of human resources, is responsible for overseeing all recruitment, training and development as well as remuneration and benefits.
The remuneration and benefits obtained from working in project-based data management of epidemiological studies in LDCs are usually insufficient to attract skilled professionals.
These additional incentives took the form of rural allowances, housing, and transport, based on the premise that increased remuneration and benefits retain people in their jobs [ 10, 11].
