Mercer Employee Benefits is to defend itself at the High Court later this year after a hotel group filed a £250,000 claim for breach of contract.
A recent ruling classing early retirement benefits as the responsibility of the acquiring company in an asset deal will add "cost and uncertainty" to mergers and acquisitions, Mercer says.
Unions have reached an agreement with ministers over the reform of the local government pension scheme.
One in four schemes offered by employers are either definitely not auto-enrolment compliant or have not yet been tested for compliance, Capita Hartshead says.
The Rail Maritime and Train union will ballot its members for industrial action over the continuing dispute concerning the East Midlands Trains section of the Railways Pension Scheme.
Civil servant scheme members of Prospect have voted by four to one to accept the government's reform package for the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme after a year of negotiations.
Barclays Corporate and Employer Solutions has added a specialist small business team to its employee benefits unit.
Hargreaves Lansdown Corporate Solutions has teamed up with employee benefits software provider Staffcare to create what it calls the UK's first fully integrated corporate wrap and flexible benefits product.
Three trade unions have joined forced to launch a campaign against government proposals to increase the UK state pension age to 68.