In an era of high fuel costs, pressure to reduce CO2 emissions and duty-of-care concerns regarding employee safety, employers are arguably under greater pressure than ever to find effective...
The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has called for tax breaks to encourage employers to better support workers’ health, ahead of today’s Budget 2012 announcement.
Chancellor George Osborne has one last chance to present a Budget tomorrow that delivers real growth, even if it means having to take controversial decisions, say business leaders.
A significant proportion of the UK’s small business bosses are risking burn-out and ill-health as they battle absence to keep businesses afloat, according to health insurer Bupa.
With the Government attempting to deal with debt reduction and taxes and social insurance costs rising on employments, employers are increasingly implementing schemes to reduce their tax liabilities....
Greater flexibility to vary pay in different parts of the country could lead to more efficient use of the "unaffordable" NHS pay bill, according to the NHS Employers organisation.
Whether it is reading books on a Kindle or buying groceries online, the technology industry has long proclaimed we are heading for a paperless society.
Cuts in pension tax relief and child benefit look set to hit the headlines after Wednesday’s Budget, but employees’ personal allowance could also be increased from £8,105 to £10,000 per annum,...
The chancellor George Osborne is understood to be planning to remove national pay rates for public sector workers in his Budget speech on Wednesday.
The Home Secretary Theresa May has received the final part of Tom Winsor’s review into police pay and conditions, which aims to create a “more skilled and effective workforce fit to face the...
The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) has launched a consultation on measures to give company shareholders greater influence over executive pay, through enhanced voting rights.
As economic forces put the squeeze on workplaces, sending working hours skywards, western world employees have never been so stressed or sedentary.
