Employee Benefits

UK - Reward managers have the best paid jobs in the personnel profession with salaries around 12% higher than the average salary within the sector, new research shows.

UK - Company car tax reforms have saved businesses £35m a year and removed 200,000 tonnes of carbon from the environment, a government report claims.

UK - Standard Life is consulting staff over the benefits it should offer them when the final salary scheme closes to new members.

UK - Mercer Human Resource Consulting is to hold a series of seminars on employee benefits between May and July.

UK - Flexible retirement plans to be introduced in 2006 will create a win-win situation for employers and staff, Mercer Human Resource Consulting claims.

UK - Over 90% of staff do not have sufficient access to information about their employee benefit packages, a new survey shows.

UK - Publishing group Harper-Collins has completed the second enrolment of its flexible benefits plan.

UK - Gissings is launching a new package which, it says, will slash flexible benefit costs for small to medium-sized firms by up to 80%.

UK - Employers are being urged to provide scheme members with projections of their pension entitlements before the April 2005 deadline in order to avoid a "backlash".

UK - The department of health is hoping flexible benefits will help boost National Health Service recruitment.