Employee Benefits

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.

Over 87% of employees will be looking for a new job in 2014, with over half (52.6%) doing so because they do not trust their boss, research finds.

Poor health and a lack of motivation is damaging productivity and retarding potential growth, according to Bupa.

Only a minority of private sector employers have carried out an equal pay review despite more than a decade of campaigns designed to persuade firms to take this step voluntarily, a survey shows.

AXA PPP has applauded the Government's announcement on extending tax exemption on employer-paid occupational health treatments and noted that it had clearly listened to the insurance industry.

The government has extended the £500 tax relief for employer funded return to work treatments to include all those arranged by employer occupational health services.

Expats who have moved abroad to work feel they would have benefitted from a greater level of support from their employers, research finds.