By Amanda White 08 January 2011
Aston University has signed a ‘salary conversion’ arrangement with Tusker that allows university employees to surrender up to 20% of their salary in return for a new car for up to three years and forms part of Aston’s Flexible Benefits Scheme. As well as setting a financial limit, the University has also set a carbon cap on the new arrangement, allowing employees to only select vehicles from a range of 600 models with emissions of 120g/km or less.
University Vice-Chancellor, Professor Julia King, who was appointed the UK’s Low Carbon Business Ambassador by the Prime Minister in November last year and is author of the 2007 ‘King Review’ on green vehicle and fuel technologies, has given the scheme her full backing because of its environmental credentials in promoting green, low emitting vehicles.
“The new scheme is one of a number of initiatives we have embarked on to encourage the uptake of green practices within the university,” said Cliff Vidgeon, Director of Human Resources at Aston.
“There was a very positive reaction amongst university staff at the benefits exhibition to the new car scheme, including our Vice-Chancellor Julia King, who thought it a very suitable scheme for promoting the uptake of greener cars,” he added.
Tusker managing director David Hosking said: “We are delighting to be working with Aston University to bring in this salary conversion scheme and promote ‘green’ vehicles to university employees.
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