Employee Benefits

Benefits packages currently on offer to employees are not fit for purpose and are missing the mark in particular for younger workers, latest research shows.

Just over half (54%) of employee benefits consultants (EBCs) say they always recommend their clients to take employee benefits offered by their employer, research reveals.

A new study has been launched to discover the best way to use doctor's fit notes using the perspectives of employers, GPs and patients.

Pitmans Trustees Ltd (PTL) has launched a life assurance claims handling service for death in service benefits.

The concept of wellbeing at work is not consistent across all European countries, yet country-specific differences should be acknowledged, according to the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA).

Friends Life has released its consumer segmentation tool to businesses in a bid to help them better understand and target their employees when delivering corporate benefits packages.

Younger workers are more likely to fall into unhealthy habits at work while older workers are most prone to health problems resulting from work-related stress, research has found.

Capita Employee Benefits has launched a new health analysis tool which it claims can help to save an average of 20% in health and risk benefit spend.

Generali Employee Benefits has announced it will launch an EAP to its group income protection (GIP) customers while group life (GLA) customers will have access to a new bereavement counselling and probate helpline service.

Nearly two-thirds (65%) of financial services firms have increased salaries to offset the impending EU bonus cap in order to retain staff, research from Robert Half Financial Services has revealed.