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For a basic pair of frames and lenses for VDU.
Current company £55
Last Company £125
Previous to that £140.
What do you give your guys??
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By using a well-known chain that has a voucher scheme, can be done for £17=00 inclusive of full eye-test and basic pair of corrective applicances !
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Same as Jay, £17 gets me the test AND the 'bins'. I tend to think of it as a 'no brainer'.
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Our policy is to pay the first £65 of any claim for DSE specs.
My wife has just purchased a pair for DSE use and her employer - a division of the NHS - has a ceiling (apparently) of £70. Her boss is making her jump through multiple hoops in order to approve the reimbursement. So far this has involved multiple return trips to the optician to try to get documentation from them that is acceptable to her boss. Not sure if we're there yet either!
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Just going down the 'should have gone to ......' route saving us a fortune on DSE and safety spec's. We used to pay well over £100 per person.
Stuart
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We give our employees a voucher for use at a well known high street optometrist - allows the employee to choose spectacles from any range upto the value of £65.
If the employee wants Dolce & Gabbana frames, that's fine - but the cost difference is payable by them!
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We use a voucher scheme from Boots / D&A.
Tests cost us £15 each. If DSE glasses are required, they cost us £25. We will alternatively contribute £15 for a test and £25 towards the cost of glasses from anywhere else (or towards more expensive glasses from Boots / D&A) if the employee prefers. They are warned that they probably can't get teh test or the glasses from anywhere else for that money.
We have a single form for the 'anywhere else' optometrist to sign. It basically requires practice name and address, has a yes/no tick box "are glasses required exclusively for DSE use?" and a declaration "I confirm that the above named person has received a full sight test as defined in the Opticians Act legislation and related regulations and which complies with the statement of good practice concerning eye tests for DSE workers issued by the College of Optometrists." to be signed and dated by the optometrist. I use this option, my optometrist has never objected to signing it. He charges me about four times what I'm then allowed to claim back from the company...
Safety glasses are different.
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We use the voucher scheme from the people we "should have gone to ..." and also use them for safety glasses. It's quite cost effective and saves any arguments. Luckily we also have a Simply Health scheme for all employees so they can get money back from that as well for any upgrades, etc. and if they use that and the voucher for glasses costing over £99, they get a £20 Premium Club discount as well!
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It does rather puzzle me why employers are still going down the route of arguing over the costs, repaying on an individual basis etc.
I have found the voucher scheme to be incredibly good value, extremely easy and cost affective to administer and widely embraced by our employees.
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canopener wrote:It does rather puzzle me why employers are still going down the route of arguing over the costs, repaying on an individual basis etc.
We retained the financial contribution option purely so that those that have an optician they are already using and happy with can stick with that optician and don't feel they are losing out.
The vast majority of our employees use the vouchers, but for the few that like the optician they have been using for years (or decades) we'll contribute as much to their costs as we would have spent on the voucher. There's no arguing - it's strictly 'take it or leave it'. If you don't like the 15 or 25 quid contribution then here's a voucher that gives you the statutory requirement for free (to you).
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I was fine until the company that sponsors rugby refs changed to E vouchers now I have to jump through hoops yo buy some.
We raise an order on our system, we log the order number on their system, we go back to our system with the on line invoice - but have not received the goods so cannot pay for something we have not received , then we pay by BACS and receive the on line vouchers a week after the BACS has been paid. We then print out the vouchers.
Before progress we ordered we paid and we issued a voucher - Simples
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