Employee Benefits

Delivering his Budget to a rowdy House of Commons, the Chancellor promised tax breaks for the workplace and brought forward a lower care cap of £72,000 to 2016.

The Chancellor's indication that companies will get a targeted tax relief tax help with sickness related employee benefits has been welcomed.

George Osborne may get a few more heckles during his Budget in light of unemployment data out today, a recruitment firm has said.

Childcare vouchers could be reprieved with an increased cap limit as part of an apparent government u-turn in this week's Budget, according to reports.

Employers and occupational health therapists must play a key role in ensuring that the older working age population is empowered to work later by implementing workplace interventions and promoting work ability, new research says.

The whole auto-enrolment piece has been structured without the intermediary in mind, despite a clear function for advisers in communicating the message, Capita said at the Employee Benefits Connect 2013 conference today.

Employee benefit advisers are becoming much more explicit on service and price in light of the fast-moving employer environment, Aviva has said.

Actuarial consultancy Punter Southall has found evidence that HR departments are sitting on huge data inaccuracies that leaving staff un-insured, potentially meaning their companies are unknowingly holding millions of pounds worth of self-insured liabilities....

Are employee benefit communications with staff all 'gadrags and handbags', asks John Ritchie.

Kudos Financial Services is to release flexible benefits portal software into the employee benefits arena on 20 March.