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...
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...
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...
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...
Across the whole economy, bonus payments during the financial year April 2010 to March 2011 totalled £35 billion, the same as the previous financial year, according to the Office of National...
The projected rates of obesity, diabetes and other chronic disease in the UK population to 2050 are increasing so rapidly that the Government’s "fondness for ‘nudging’" - or persuading people to make...
Staff at retail chain Sports Direct, are set to enjoy an average share bonus of £44,000 each – but will have to wait until 2013 for the bulk of it.
ONS figures released today show unemployment figures remain fairly static. Experts say this is due to the fact that employees are accepting pay cuts rather than facing redundancy. Businesses and their...
The world’s largest office products company Staples has launched an occupational health and private health scheme for its UK staff.
The gap in average earnings between employees in the public and private sector has increased since 2007, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Heineken has introduced a new eyecare scheme for its 2,200 UK employees.
Banks will have to provide far more detail on how they link pay to performance and risk, following the publication of the Basel Committee's Pillar 3 remuneration requirements.
