Employee Benefits

Auto-enrolment could lead to 200,000 job losses at smaller firms as labour costs will increase by around 2%, academic research predicts.

Trustees must make a stand against employers using the recession as an excuse to take a "slash and burn" approach to occupational pensions, delegates heard.

Factors such as age, gender and income greatly affect the employee benefits chosen by employees, Mercer research reveals.

The recession is increasing pressure on member-nominated trustees faced with conflict of interest issues around their interests as employees or union representatives, Trustee GAAPS warns.

Aegon has withdrawn from the UK group risk market in a bid to reallocate capital to businesses with higher growth and return prospects.

Barclays is set to close its final salary scheme to future accruals as part of a review of its pension arrangements.

Schemes and their providers have just over one week left to make nominations for The Pension Scheme of the Year Awards 2009.

Jardine Lloyd Thompson Private Clients has launched a range of services in a bid to help identify Budget tax change issues.

Increasing governments scrutiny on corporate governance will exert growing pressure on pension schemes to become more engaged as shareholders, a Watson Wyatt survey claims.

The recession is causing many companies to carefully consider employee reward strategies, a report by Thomsons Online Benefits shows.