Benfield Motor Group has wheeled in a new employee benefits package for its 1,000 UK employees.
Conservative leader David Cameron is not in support of a pay freeze in the public sector.
More than 2,000 British Airways staff have rejected proposals from the employer to cut 3,500 jobs and impose a pay freeze to save costs.
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.
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.
