Employee Benefits

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has set up a multi-employer pension scheme for its members in preparation for auto-enrolment.

Legal & General has launched a new relevant life plan to enable employers to provide an individual death in service benefit for an employee.

Paycare has launched a new healthcare benefit cash plan for employers to offer their staff.

The chairman of the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has suggested Parliament will have to give the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), one of its successor bodies, even greater powers to protect consumers.

More than half of SME employers fear the cost impact of the government's health and welfare reforms, according to Jelf Group.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has said removing tax disincentives for employers to implement health and wellbeing strategies may be the "best way forward".

Unum has launched a new group income protection (GIP) product targeted at a wider range of employees than most schemes.

Employers dread filling in paperwork for the taxman, especially those with a large staff turnover.

Moving from blindly buying PMI to defining a healthcare strategy will stabilise company health plans. Rachel Riley explains.

During a recent visit to a small company, my client was complaining about the length and frequency of her staff absence. Having no experience in this before, where would my start point be in introducing an absence management and return to work policy...