employee benefits

There has been an increase in the number of companies offering health benefits on an employee-paid basis with cost being a key consideration.

The NHS will offer help and support for workplace incentives to promote employee health and cut sickness-related unemployment.

Jelf Employee benefits has launched a new auto-enrolment package which includes healthcare and group risk.

Four out of five of the least popular employee wellness programmes are designed to stop smoking.

A proposal for a compulsory unemployment insurance scheme, run by the private sector, has been put forward by a think-tank.

Older workers are not being told about their right to continue working past age 65 while many employers are also choosing to restrict benefits for staff above this age.

Changes to health and welfare insurance in Scotland have been recommended by a think-tank following Scotland's No Vote in yesterday's referendum.

Proposals by HMRC to change the taxation system for employee benefits and expenses have been welcomed by the Low Incomes Tax Reform Group (LITRG).

GPs could be given incentives to encourage them to refer employees to the Health and Work Service (HWS), but may lose the responsibility of issuing fit notes.

Here they are… The five flexible benefits with the best staff engagement rates, according to a whitepaper published by Benefex.