The recent bad weather has meant that many people have failed to get to work due to school closures and travel difficulties. One question on the minds of many employers is do they have to pay...

The national pension scheme has up until now been referred to as Personal Accounts, but the Government has announced the scheme will now be called National Employment Savings Trust (NEST).

More than two out of five plans to incentivise sales staff do not work, new research shows.

Our recent Global Wellness Survey highlighted that 50% of participants in the UK now have a workplace wellness strategy. Why are these companies so interested in the health and wellbeing of their...

In recent months the issue of non-payment of employee bonuses has come to the attention of the courts and the forefront of the media. Financial institutions in particular have come under scrutiny as...

Keen to reassure staff worried by redundancies, Korec overhauled its pensions offering and communication strategy to raise awareness of the benefit and its value.

The 50% tax rate on high earners won't just hit the bankers, it will affect talent across the spectrum. How can HR directors stop high flyers leaving the UK in droves?

After a year of maintaining a low profile, RBS HR director Neil Roden emerges to deny HR strategy was in any way responsible for the group's reward failures.

New government rules will make the pensions tax regime an administrative quagmire in 2011. The reason for this lies within a document that has far-reaching consequences for HR managers - a...

Kent County Council is poised to overhaul its reward and compensation strategy to make total reward in the organisation more like that of the private sector.

The majority of workers do not expect to receive a bonus this Christmas, and a fifth have no idea how their bonuses are calculated.

The number of pay rises in 2009 dropped 17% from the previous year as rewarding employees financially has been put firmly on the backburner, research shows.