The Gro Company is offering health screening at its head office to give its employees a sense of their overall health.

Corus staff could be balloted on industrial action over the company's plans to close its final-salary pension scheme for new members.

Controlling costs is the top challenge faced by HR professionals when offering employee benefits - but more than a quarter do not think they are leveraging maximum benefit from their current spend.

Despite the economic downturn employers are increasing their spend on healthcare benefits.

Two-thirds of the private-sector workforce is without a pension because defined- contribution (DC) pension scheme coverage is not good enough to fill the gap left by defined-benefit (DB) pensions,...

Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) are being used to support stressed staff during the recession, according to new figures from health and wellbeing provider FirstAssist Services.

Marketing staff have weathered the economic storm with a quarter continuing to receive bonus pay, new research reveals.

A quarter of blue-chip employers plan to offer back-up care such as emergency childcare or eldercare by 2010.

Specsavers Corporate Eyecare has launched a new website with the aim of making the purchase of eyecare easier for HR staff.

The prime minister, Gordon Brown, has said he would be "willing to take a pay cut" - but only if other ministers would do likewise.

Center Parcs has launched a charity-giving scheme to allow staff to donate money to charities of their choice from gross pay.

Employees in small companies are more likely to make sacrifices in order to aid their company's success than those working for large organisations.