Lack of priority within the NHS represents an opportunity for the private healthcare sector the UK Rehabilitation Council has said.
The prolonged downward trend in employee absence rates has plateaued with long term sickness increasing, new research finds.
Barclays Corporate and Employer Solutions has added a specialist small business team to its employee benefits unit.
Britons are risking their dental health because they can not afford the money or time off work to visit a dentist, research finds.
With the exception of pensions, over a third of employers never communicate with their staff about core financial employee benefits, and another quarter do so less than once a year.
The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) has released a guide tackling mental illness issues in the workplace.
Jelf has urged the government to target tax breaks for workplace healthcare provision at employers and argued such a move could produce an "entire culture shift".
Group protection specialist Unum has launched an application - ‘The Perkulator' - which enables people to calculate how much their benefits package is worth, based on simple information they provide.
Over a third (36%) of employers are still to take action after the removal of the Earnings Cap along with other pre A-Day rules in April 2011, with a further 30% still undecided on what course of action to take.
A survey of financial directors has found over a third of businesses will continue to increase their budgets for employee benefits.