Employee Benefits

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.

Employing wellbeing strategies in the workplace will backfire if the workforce believe the aim is to get more work out of them Simplyhealth has said.

A significant proportion of the UK's small business bosses are risking their health as they battle absence to keep businesses afloat, according to Bupa.

Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls has called for the government to cut pensions tax relief to 26% for people earning more than £150,000 per year.

The work performance of 85%of employees has been affected by work, health and personal pressures, according new research from Canada life.