A new occupational healthcare company, Work Doctors, aims to make it easier to access occupational healthcare and traditional family medicine for major UK businesses.
Aon is set to buy Lorica Employee Benefits in a bid to expand its health and benefits solutions to UK clients.
More than a third (34%) of firms have seen absence rates improve over the last 12 months, echoing recent ONS Labour Market statistics showing sick days down by 47 million since 1993.
A fifth of UK employees 'do not understand' what wellbeing benefits they are entitled to, according to research from Friends Life.
The number of small employers that know their auto-enrolment (AE) staging date is "largely unchanged" since last spring, research from The Pensions Regulator (TPR) reveals.
Most workers in the UK believe staff health and wellbeing should be shared between both employer and employee, according to new research.
Providers running the national Health and Work Service (HWS) will not be incentivised to return people to work.
Cash plans have become as popular as health insurance among UK workers.
JLT Employee Benefits' (JLT EB) UK and Ireland business saw its revenues increase 18% to £172.1m for the year ending December 31 2013.
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.