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Financial planner acquires web-based benefit admin firm

Mazars Financial Planning, the financial planning and advisory business of accountancy firm Mazars, has acquired the business and assets of Redbourne, a specialist employee benefit administration...

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Flexible benefits, not growth, are main business concern, finds Thomsons research

Employers are putting growth plans on the back-burner, focusing on organisational change and re-structuring their employee benefits schemes, according to the 8th Employee Rewards Watch Report from...

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Private-public gap widens, but employer demand is up, finds Reed

Job opportunities across the country slipped back last month, down 2% in March compared to February, but year on year employer demand is up 25%, according to findings from the Reed Job Index,...

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Ex-pat restrictions ‘ludicrous’, says PwC

The Finance Bill will force higher taxes onto expats working more than 10 days annually in the UK, according to accountancy firm PwC.

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Default Retirement Age: business needs to tread carefully, says survey

More than half of companies believe the imminent scrapping of the default retirement age (DRA) will lead to an increase in the number of tribunal claims over the next 12 months – despite attempts by...

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Companies need 18 months to be ready for auto-enrolment pension, says actuary

With 18 months to go until the implementation of rules requiring employers to auto-enroll staff into pension schemes, benefits consultants have warned employers they will need all this time to...

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HR salary outlook brighter, despite tough times, says CMI

At 12%, labour turnover in the HR profession is higher than the national average of 10.5%, according to the National Management Salary survey from the CMI and XpertHR, published yesterday.

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Thomson Reuters named UK’s top employer

Business and information provider Thomson Reuters was last night awarded the highest-ranked large organisation among this year’s Britain’s Top Employers by the Corporate Research Foundation (CRF)...

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White male graduates from older universities profit more from business degrees, finds research

The careers of women and people from ethnic minorities who have taken business studies degrees lag behind those of their white male equivalents, research reveals.

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Lloydspharmacy tempts graduates with pre-registration programme

Lloydspharmacy has launched a smartphone trailer and presentation to help pharmacy graduates gain a greater understanding of life at the leading community pharmacy chain.

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Henley Business School and PwC launch vocational degree with a job at the end

Henley Business School is poised to launch a new degree programme in partnership with PwC, which will give students who successfully pass their exams and perform well in work placements a guaranteed...

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Ministry of Justice issues guidance on anti-bribery procedures

The Ministry of Justice has published its guidance on the Bribery Act 2010, clarifying the ‘adequate procedures’ that a business should put in place to defend successfully a prosecution for failing to...

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