Employee Benefits
Nearly all employers offer staff paid time off for bereavement
HR taking an overarching role to ensure consistency of approach within companies
Bad health choices cutting workers' life expectancy
Unhealthy behaviour and other risk factors significantly reducing longevity, research by VitalityHealth has revealed
Ellipse launches employee benefits benchmark tool
Ellipse has launched a 'benefits benchmark' tool aimed at advisers who would like to measure the extent of their corporate clients' employee benefits against those of their competitors.
Generali UK partners with VSP Vision Care to meet Duty of Care
The move aims to help more employers fund essential disease prevention services
World Cancer Day: Are insurers doing enough to help people with cancer?
Insurers offer more than just financial support to cancer sufferers on both a group and individual level. But are they doing enough?
Employers proactive as workplace mental health issues rocket
Stress and mental health-related illnesses at work rose from 55% to 68% over the past year, a survey by Aon Employee Benefits has revealed, but more is being done by employers.
Metlife appoints head of global employee benefits
MetLife has named executive vice president James Reid as head of its global employee benefits business.
The SME gap is the biggest challenge for employee benefits
Flexible and voluntary benefits within small-to-medium enterprises offer most effective solution for closing employment benefit gap, MetLife UK research finds.
Fit for Work: the undeniable truth
Why did Fit for Work really fail? What now for SME's? And how can intermediaries help? By Carl Laidler, director of screening programmes at Health Shield Wellbeing gives his view.
Unum acquires Polish insurer Pramerica Życie
Unum is to acquire Pramerica Życie, an insurer based in Poland, from a subsidiary of Prudential Financial (PFI.)
Just 2% of gig workers have access to insurance via their workplace
Just 2% of gig economy workers have access to life Insurance, income protection or life insurance via their gig company, according to new research by Zurich UK.
Canada Life extends BusinessCare to all CLASS policies
Canada Life Group Insurance has made BusinessCare, the business and legal support service, available to all CLASS policyholders.
FSCS ups total levy to £336m for 2018/19
Covers nine month period
Out now: The Adviser Guide to Dental Benefits in association with Simplyhealth
Exclusive interactive eBook featuring interviews with industry experts on having workplace dental benefits.
Ill-health costs UK firms six working weeks a year in lost productivity
Annual absentee and presentee figures equate to £77.5bn blow to our economy, a study has revealed.
David Price: Five ways employers can help staff beat the January blues
On Blue Monday, wellbeing expert David Price hands a fistful of tips to employers looking to give staff a much-needed lift during January.
Blue Monday: Let's talk about mental health
With mental health referrals up 30% and a spike in absenteeism during January, the return of Blue Monday is a good a time as any to discuss the need for insurance products within the workplace, says COVER journalist Adam Saville.
UK employers should embrace digital healthcare to reduce absenteeism during winter
Online doctors and telemedicine services should be offered to staff to help ease the strain on GPs, says Jan Lawson of Punter Southall Health & Protection.
Majority of UK workforce went to work while unwell in 2017
With sick leave at its lowest for decades, new Bupa research suggests that millions headed into work despite being unwell, feeling pain and suffering from mental illness last year.
Trends for 2018: Employee benefits
John Dean and Cheryl Brennan of Punter Southall Health & Protection shine a light on the dynamics they expect to dominate the employee benefits market in 2018.
Employees struggling with their finances report higher workplace stress
Employees struggling with their finances suffer from far higher levels of stress, and poorer health, than those who are unworried financially, a new report has found.
FCA: Advisers must complete 15 hours protection CPD each year
To meet Insurance Distribution Directive rules
FCA financial advice director Linda Woodall exits
Retiring from regulation
85% more likely to work for firms with clearly labelled benefits - research
Some 85% of employees are more likely to work for employers offering clearly labelled benefits, research from Canada Life has found.
