Aviva is allowing all employees within an organisation with a group income protection (GIP) policy to access its Employee Assistance programme (EAP).
The number of workers without access to workplace benefits has dropped by around one million over the last 12 months, according to research.
Annual increases in the amount of money that workers can save in all-employee share schemes should be linked to inflation, says a share scheme lobby group.
The decline in UK wages will not be reversed until there is a substantial improvement in the nation's poor productivity record, the Chartered Institute for Professional Development (CIPD) warns.
Two former members of Aon Hewitt's third-party admin team have launched a consultancy to design, optimise and implement employee benefit administration solutions.
Organisations are increasingly demonstrating a more positive attitude towards employing an older workforce, yet many are concerned about the higher benefit costs it will bring, a report reveals.
Nearly one in five (17%) small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) suffered significant disruption from staff illness and absence in the past year, according to findings from Metlife.
The Health and Work Service should be mandatory and include sanctions for employers who do not cooperate with it, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) recommends.
Musculoskeletal and mental health conditions account for more than half of long-term absence
MetLife is in talks with a major pension provider to integrate its group life and income protection products with the auto enrolment of the SME market beginning later this year.