The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is reducing some of its demands on private healthcare providers and practitioners to address lack of competition and consumer detriment issues in the market.

A significant majority of employers lack confidence in the accuracy of their absence data and even more do not calculate the total cost of employee health.

As technology becomes increasingly important, Owain Thomas examines how platforms can support the employee benefits.

The government has confirmed it will be "taking forward" almost all of the recommendations made by the Office of Tax Simplification (OTS) addressing the taxation of employee benefits and expenses.

Automatically excluding female employees on maternity leave from training programmes is discriminatory, the European Court of Justice has ruled.

Providers running the national Health and Work Service (HWS) will not be incentivised to return people to work.

Unison has criticised the government's "obsession with absence rates" after national statistics were published showing the number of absences per year had dropped by 40% since 1993.

Replacing staff with above average salaries in some sectors can cost as much as £30,000 per employee, according to a new study.

Nearly one in five (17%) small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) suffered significant disruption from staff illness and absence in the past year, according to findings from Metlife.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is expected to put out its tenders for private companies to run elements of the Health and Work Service (HWS) this week.