The state pension age for both men and women is to rise to 66 by 2020, six years earlier than previously announced, the chancellor of the Exchequer has revealed.

The flu will cost UK employers 7.6 million working days this year, according to experts.

The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) has closed its final-salary defined-benefit (DB) scheme to new members of staff.

The subject of 'engagement' has certainly been rising up the corporate agenda and is set to be a key factor in performance in 2011.

The current clinical excellence awards scheme for doctors is "costly, unwieldy and out of step with other pay systems in the NHS", according to NHS Employers.

In two years' time pension provision within UK companies is due for the most radical overhaul ever seen, with the introduction of the National Employers Savings Trust, or NEST as it is more commonly...

In a bid to 'simplify' the pensions system, the Government has cut back on the amount of savings staff can pay into their pension pots before being taxed, but industry experts have welcomed the...

HR managers have successfully saved their companies millions of pounds by investing in the health and wellbeing of their staff, according to a new report published today by the Chartered Society of...

Payments from public sector pensions, the State Second Pension and some private-sector defined-benefit pensions will rise by 3.1% instead of 4.6% next year, according to Towers Watson.

On the very afternoon Lord Hutton, chairman of the Government's Independent Public Service Commission, launched his interim report on public-sector pensions, he faced the pensions industry itself with...

Public-sector staff have been told they will have to work for longer and contribute more into their pension schemes, in order to secure an appropriate retirement income.

HR professionals have warned employers they must engage staff in saving for retirement so they don't have to work on into old age.