Employee Benefits

UK - Mercer Human Resource Consulting is holding a seminar next month on difficulties employers face when they move from final salary pension provision.

UK - Employers are increasingly turning to flexible benefit packages in a bid to maintain and recruit staff, research by Hewitt Bacon & Woodrow reveals.

UK - Poor advice has cost thousands of scheme members higher retirement incomes, Tillinghast-Towers Perrin claims.

UK - Publisher DC Thomson has taken a pension contribution holiday despite a fall of £108m in the value of its scheme's assets.

UK - Mercer Human Resource Consulting has confirmed up to 135 redundancies within its pension administration and consulting practices.

UK - The National Association of Pension Funds has released a new guide to workplace pensions.

UK - Consultants are split over whether employers should adopt "knee-jerk" initiatives to avoid the government's proposed lifetime savings limit.

UK - Employers are abandoning defined benefit schemes because staff do not see a link between their pension and salary levels, new research shows.

UK - Administrators should focus on meeting member expectations rather than faster turnaround times, delegates at the recent Pension Show heard.

UK - Thomsons Online Benefits has released a new flexible, web-based technology solution handling clients' requirements "faster and cheaper".