Employers must help staff let off steam

Workers will turn to alcohol, smoking and comfort eating to deal with the rising stress of their jobs, warns The Stroke Association and Siemens.

Staff unaware their employer provides life insurance

More than three million employees do not know their employers already provide them with life insurance.

Chester and District focus on fleet safety

Chester and District Housing Trust (CDHT) has doubled its fleet and introduced a scheme to identify and manage driving risks.

Migrant workers are paid less than they are entitled to

Migrant workers are most likely to face discrimination at work and female migrant workers are more likely to be paid below the minimum wage, according to TUC.

Civica to refresh its benefits offering

Software firm Civica is harmonising its employee benefits provision by adding online flexible benefits and decreasing the number of pension schemes it offers from eight to two.

Maternity benefits changes cause confusion

Employers will not understand changes in maternity pension benefits, and they could also end up out of pocket, according to legal experts.

Employers under pressure to agree pay rise demands

Employers are feeling the heat from staff demanding pay rises to offset rising fuel costs.

Royal Mail accused of draconian practices

Royal Mail has been accused of using a "draconian and dictatorial" approach to its absence management policy in the same month it launched a health and safety training scheme.

Executives get same pension benefits as staff

Most executives get no better retirement benefits than other members of staff.

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Employers step up their road risk management

Fleet decision-makers are finally getting to grips with the demands of occupational road risk management, finds a new survey by Kwik-Fit Fleet.

Regulation sounds death-knell for final-salary pensions

Employers have been warned that excessive regulation is putting as many as three million final-salary pension schemes at risk of winding up or being bought out.

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Royal Mail - First-class delivery of wellbeing

Royal Mail's investment in staff health pays for itself many times over in terms of reduced absenteeism, rate of return to work after illness and higher productivity