Aviva has called on the government to offer incentives to employers who offer workplace health and rehabilitation services to address sickness absence.
Employers underestimate the importance of the benefits they offer staff after new research revealed half of employees would move jobs for better benefits.
Only 56% of companies procuring staff benefits use a broker, yet 90% of those who do think it is money well spent, Denplan has found.
GPs routinely see patients dismissed from their job during illness, as employers struggle with workplace health and absence, legal & General (L&G) has found.
HMRC workers who are members of the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) are threatening to strike over a new employee sickness policy.
Long term absence is a business affecting issue for 50% of employers, with 27% claiming it as a ‘major headache', new research from Aviva has found.
Employee benefit consultants (EBCs) will face a variety of problems if the government merges income tax and national insurance (NI), experts say.
The Association of Medical Insurance Intermediaries (AMII) has called on the Chancellor to remove tax disincentives in the treatment of employer-paid private medical insurance (PMI).
A new provider of health screening services, HealthScreen UK, has entered the UK employee benefits market.
British workers are among the worst protected among their peers in the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and government incentives should address it, according to a new report.