The Competition Commission (CC) has proposed five key remedies to address the lack of competitive issues in the private healthcare market that it believes has lead to significant consumer detriment.
Incentives are being handed to Home Office employees who manage to win 70% of tribunal cases which ensure asylum seekers fail their attempt to stay in the UK.
Jelf Employee Benefits has launched a new auto-enrolment (AE) consultancy service aimed at small businesses.
Private healthcare providers will be compelled to provide greater information on the quality and cost of treatments being offered to private patients and insurers.
Medical insurers have welcomed proposals by the Competition Commission (CC) to shake-up the private healthcare market, but hospital groups have reacted angrily, calling them "plainly wrong".
Employee owned businesses (EOBs) are better at maintaining both top-line financial performance and employment levels than their non-employee owned counterparts, research finds.
Intercede is establishing a share incentive plan (SIP) for its workforce to help recruit staff.
Treasury secretary Danny Alexander says there is "more to be done" in boosting the profile of employee ownership and advancing the sector over the longer term.
New FirstGroup chairman John McFarlane is to be paid wholly in shares in the transport company.
ACAS is predicting that zero-hours contracts and pay awards will dominate workplace relations in 2014.