Alistair Darling has refused to rule out pay freezes in the public sector, and will make a decision on the issue over the next few weeks.

BT is offering some staff a year off as a sabbatical in return for a 75% pay cut in that year's pay.

Personal Accounts could lead to 200,000 job losses - hitting small firms especially hard - according to the University of Warwick's Institute for Employment Research.

A business needs the right talent to promote growth and boost its reputation. To attract this talent it needs to have a brand perception and work ethic that is both innovative and respected.

Kellogg's is using some of its best-known cereal characters to communicate its total reward provision to staff.

Unilever is well aware of the business benefits of a healthy workforce. It should do - it is on its third initiative, a year-long pilot of health checks involving 2,000 staff.

It is very hard to define what a health and wellbeing policy is and even harder to assess what contribution it makes to employee performance and company profitability.

Wine producer Chapel Down is toasting the success of a brand-aligned wellbeing scheme, designed to add passion and fizz to employees' daily lives.

It makes sense for employers to promote healthy living to staff. But how gender-specific does the message have to be to reflect the sexes' differing attitudes to health?

It was exactly two years ago this month that the Government's ban on smoking in the workplace single-handedly presented companies with a zero-cost way of tacking staff ill-health.

Despite the recession, the average salaries for senior executives have risen by 3.35% since October, compared to a national average of 2.7%.

Employers are increasingly using community pharmacists in an effort to keep their workers healthy - spurring other healthcare providers to improve their offerings.