employee benefits

Aria Assistance, formed after the management buyout of Europ Assistance UK & Ireland, is fulfilling its commitment to providing occupational health services with the acquisition of Premier Occupational Healthcare (POHC).

WELL FAIR REFORM?

Employees should be encouraged to lead healthy lives through workplace initiatives, Canada Life has said.

UK businesses have been spending £620,000 every year on long-term employee sick leave, the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) has found.

MetLife has bumped up its group life protection with a bereavement and probate service.

Older workers are set to play an increasing role in the workplace and employers need to respond with more flexible working practices and better recruitment strategies, new research finds.

Health benefit provider Aetna has signed as Great Britain's Olympic beach volleyball squad's first major commercial sponsor.

Financial directors' hold "ridiculous" expectations for the return on investment of their healthcare benefits and sickness absence spend, the Work Foundation has said.

Nearly all employers believe the GP fit note is ineffective with workplace sickness policies the answer, according to the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals (CIPP).

As the economic times send employee sickness rates upwards, what should brokers be doing with the Sickness Absence Review in mind? Philip Wood examines the facts.