employers

B&CE Benefit Schemes has improved its employee healthcare plan to include employer services and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT).

Employees value the support of workplace benefits during the current economic climate, new research from Friends Provident says.

The number of unemployed has risen again, although the rate of increase is slowing, according to figures released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Confidence about job prospects among UK financial services workers improved in July, according to a survey.

Considering the Government's focus on getting employees back to work, there's some irony to the recent ruling that what workers really need when they return from long term absence is a holiday!

Employers should be given the opportunity to opt-out of auto-enrolment if their current scheme has membership take-up equal to personal accounts, says Legal & General.

Employers will be exempt from auto-enrolling staff into the national pensions saving scheme if already provide access to pension schemes which are equivalent to or more generous than the proposals set out for personal accounts, says the DWP.

Personal accounts could lead to 80% of employer pension schemes reducing their contributions for new employees and those not yet in their existing scheme.

Employers plan to take advice from IFAs as well as the government and industry bodies when implementing new personal accounts.

Almost half of employers feel defined contribution (DC) pension schemes only work 'fairly well' for employees.