Employee Benefits

Leaders of UK businesses including BT, RBS and Mars are collaborating to launch a new campaign that aims to end the "stifling" culture of silence on mental health in the workplace.

Half of UK adults are classified as either overweight (31%) or obese (19%) yet a significant proportion believe they are in very good or excellent health, research finds.

One in 10 (11%) organisations using zero-hours contracts adopt exclusivity clauses which seek to prohibit workers from securing employment elsewhere, research finds.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is establishing a pension scheme for fee-paid judges to address the discriminatory remuneration treatment part-time judges have suffered in service since 2000.

Over three-quarters (76%) of employers have not taken steps to prepare for the new shared parental leave legislation which will come into effect in six months time, research finds.

Edenred and Ticketmaster have joined forces to offer employees with access to Edenred's employee savings platforms and reward schemes discounts on purchases made via Ticketmaster.

The introduction of maternity leave laws in Guernsey could be delayed by a year, with the plan not necessarily seeing women paid, according to a report.

A significant majority of employers lack confidence in the accuracy of their absence data and even more do not calculate the total cost of employee health.

Almost three-quarters of a million people cycle to work every day in England and Wales, an increase of more than 90,000 in a decade, according to official statistics taken from the last census.

Employers will be able to file employee share scheme data online with HM Revenue and Customs from 6 April.