Employee Benefits

The Financial Reporting Council has launched a consultation on amendments to accounting standard FRS102 in a bid to simplify rules surrounding share and share option awards for smaller firms.

Ros Altmann is to be nominated as a Conservative peer and will be made a minister with responsibility for consumer protection if the party wins next month's general election.

The vast majority of parents will be better off using childcare vouchers than the coalition's Tax-Free Childcare.

An assessment of parental needs has identified at least nine categories of employees who will be better off by remaining on the current childcare voucher scheme than utilising the incoming Tax-Free Childcare.

Being able to successfully evaluate a workplace benefits scheme is critical to its success. WSB's webinar panel discussed the techniques they are using and what metrics are best to measure the results.

Unilever is establishing a global reward benchmarking database to allow it and other multinationals to compare how much senior executives across the planet should be paid.

Half of workplace benefits professionals will decide their general election vote based in some significant part on employment policies.

The Liberal Democrats will look at introducing a flat-rate pensions tax relief, expand shared parental leave, consider increasing NI thresholds and commit to 20 hours of free childcare a week for all working parents.

The Green Party has pledged to bring the minimum wage up to the Living Wage with a target of making it £10 per hour by 2020.

Just how family-friendly are your workplace benefits? Apparently, many are not family-friendly enough and this could be costing employers key staff in reduced attraction and retention, finds Owain Thomas