Employers may end up paying more for healthcare, warns IFS

Policies to limit demand, increase productivity or up the use of private money in healthcare should be seriously considered while there is still time, according to a new report by the Institute of...

Are managers bad for your health?

There have been numerous high-level reports on work and wellbeing, and in all of them the issue of the line manager comes up as a key aspect to employee health and wellbeing, says the Health and...

A fifth of employers still do not record sickness absence

More than a fifth of employers did not have a system in place for recording sickness absence, according to findings from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).

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Babel Media relaunches employee benefits scheme

Babel Media, the international games industry outsource company, has launched a reinvigorated employee benefits programme for its UK staff.

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Take home pay is £1,212 lower on average than two years ago, according to Vocalink

The average annual real take home pay is £1,212 lower than it was two and a half years ago, according to a report published this morning by payments provider Vocalink.

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Simplyhealth's acquisition of Groupama receives frosty reception

Healthcare provider Simplyhealth has reached agreement to purchase the UK healthcare business of Groupama Insurances, subject to the required regulatory approvals.

Pay freezes and pay cuts still abound as cost of living rises, according to CIPD findings

Pay packets are being hit hard with most employees suffering no pay rise in last six months, according to the CIPD.

UK gift card and voucher market experiences double-digit growth

The UK’s gift card and voucher market has experienced a double-digit increase of 14.3% in year-on-year sales in the second quarter of 2011, according to the latest statistics from The UK Gift Card &...

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Less than a fifth of employers provide adequate support for stressed staff, according to Legal & General

Research by Legal & General using Department for Work and Pensions statistics has revealed less than a fifth of employers are taking adequate steps to provide support for stressed employees in the...

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With cuts raging on, employers still fail to nurture a cost-cutting mentality amongst staff

UK firms have failed to create a culture of cost consciousness within their organisations despite three years of cost-cutting and uncertainty – threatening to reverse the savings made during...

HMRC clarifies VAT requirements for cycle to work schemes

In response to a recent European Court of Justice judgement, HMRC has confirmed that provision of a benefit via salary sacrifice to employees constitutes a supply of services for consideration and is...

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Money more important than job satisfaction, CIPD research shows

A desire to ‘increase pay and benefits’ has become the number one reason why employees want to change jobs, overtaking ‘improving job satisfaction’ in the CIPD Employee Outlook survey, as the economic...