Benefits

January is a peak time for couples to separate or divorce, but few employers have sufficient measures in place to...

The Government has published details of the rate at which statutory shared parental pay will be paid from April 2015,...

Plumbing distributor Wolseley received the Employee Benefits Award at the Personnel Today Awards 2014. Here we look at their winning...

Employers have a duty to arrange an eye test for employees who use display screen equipment as part of their...

Appebook’s new policy of paying for women to have their eggs frozen in order to boost the number of women...

Silicon Valley has a problem: it is failing to attract and retain sufficient numbers of talented women. To address this,...

Despite the fanfare about flexible working and trusting people to produce results on their own terms, how organisations dole out...

Research by XpertHR found that the most popular way of flexing the benefits package is to offer benefits on a salary-sacrifice basis.

Despite optimism over the economy, many households are still feeling the squeeze over wages. But helping staff to manage stress...

Health-related benefits feature heavily in the most common benefits provided by employers, a survey of 327 organisations' benefits packages conducted by XpertHR has found.

This week, we report on an award of more than £700,000 to 20 older drivers who were dismissed after their...

As a pensions and benefits consultancy, Hymans Robertson faced a challenge in engaging its employees with its benefits package, because...

A new system of statutory parental rights will be introduced next year, which will inevitably place additional administrative burdens on...

Recruitment and dismissal can be problematic for businesses, particularly when employers are unaware of the legal consequences of their actions....

Adopting a formal compassionate leave policy brings clear benefits both to employees going through difficult times and their employers, according...