Employee Benefits

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.

UK - Increased pension costs have hit profits of half of all UK firms with Defined Benefit (DB) schemes and nearly a quarter have been forced to reduce investment in the business, according to new research.

UK - Flexible benefit experts have welcomed a raft of government measures which will help firms reward employees and promote savings.

UK - Flexible benefit costs can be cut and efficiency improved if firms make greater use of the internet, conference delegates were told on Tuesday.

UK - Thomson's Group has launched a new online employee benefits service aimed at encouraging greater pension savings.

UK - DC contribution levels are being "disastrously underestimated" by scheme members, experts warn.

UK - The rate of growth in the flexible benefits market is set to double this year, experts say.