Employee Benefits

Wellbeing will be the ‘new priority' for employers this year amid greater debates around healthcare and group risk issues and challenges, Towers Watson has said.

The government has published a new strategy setting out ideas to help more disabled people and those with health conditions get into and stay in work.

Professor Nick Bacon of the Cass Business School discusses the mutual gains of protecting employees and enhancing business performance.

Almost seven in ten (69%) employees say that flexible working is critical in easing work-related stress, according to a survey.

Wellness at work: the opportunity for advisers. Lee Thurston, director at Jardine lloyd Thompson, reveals a few hard won tips on selling group protection as an employee benefit.

Over a third (36%) of employees in the UK start the week on Monday morning feeling tired despite the weekend break, with high levels of depression, stress and anxiety.

A template allowing employers to detail the available workplace adaptations and modifications is being developed to support the fit note.

Marco Ferato, chief marketing officer at Unum, discusses the employee benefits market moving away from a reliance on life cover and towards addressing the risk of sickness absence.

Employees who enter into a civil partnership with a partner of the same sex must be granted the same benefits upon their marriage as those granted to their colleagues, the European Court of Justice has ruled.

The Court of Appeal has ruled that employers cannot ‘simply rubber stamp' an opinion provided by occupational health advisers regarding an employee's disability.