Employee Benefits

Europ Assistance has partnered with Premier Occupational Healthcare as part of its expansion into healthcare and home and family assistance.

Long term absence is a business affecting issue for 50% of employers, with 27% claiming it as a ‘major headache', new research from Aviva has found.

A new provider of health screening services, HealthScreen UK, has entered the UK employee benefits market.

My client has an individual IP policy, but his employer is offering group IP cheaper for the same level of cover, plus an employee assistance programme (EAP). It is unlikely he will work for the same employer for life and this policy has a continuation...

The Pensions Bill has begun its reading in Parliament. Will the creation of the National Employment Savings Trust open the market to businesses never before involved in providing financial support to their employees and create opportunities for advisers...

More older people are still at work after reaching 65, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have shown.

Colin Williams has been appointed director of corporate at Friends Provident, responsible for the provider's strategy in the corporate benefits market.

John Ritchie reviews the trends in employee benefits and looks ahead to its future growth.

With providers and the government taking a greater interest in health provision through the workplace, should IFAs become more active in the health and welfare of those individuals in their group business?

I have been approached by the owner of a small arts foundry with 22 employees who is interested in offering a basic level of employee benefits. He already has a life cover plan for all employees, but would like to offer something else as well. However,...