Employee Benefits

UK - Publishing group Informa has reported a 90% employee take-up rate within two weeks of implementing a new online flexible benefits programme.

UK - Employee benefit provider Booost is targeting small-to-medium-sized firms with new low-cost home computer and bicycle schemes.

UK - Insurance giant Aon has launched a flexible benefits scheme which is available to more than 8000 of its UK-based employees.

UK - The Pension Commission is delaying publication of its first report into the industry to prevent it being embroiled in party politics.

UK - BT and its staff will make tax and NI savings of around £20m over the next year from a pension salary sacrifice scheme.

UK - Consultants are urging the government to remove limited price indexation for defined benefit schemes to create a "level playing field" for all forms of pension provision.

UK - Voluntary benefits are an ideal introduction to setting up a full flexible benefits package, delegates were told.

UK - Over half of FTSE350 firms have plans to integrate their pension schemes into a wider flexible benefits programme, a new survey shows.

UK - The Local Government Pension Scheme must evolve to meet the "critical" challenges ahead, a minister at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister told delegates.

UK - A good benefits package has become a bigger attraction than a high salary, conference delegates were told.