Government

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has urged the government to place an outright ban on exclusivity clauses in zero-hours contracts where there is no guarantee of work.

Take-up of the government's new shared parental leave scheme is likely to be between just 1% and 4% it has estimated.

HM Treasury has appointed the Pension Protection Fund's (PPF) Martin Clarke to replace Trevor Llanwarne as government actuary.

Organisations representing employers, consumers, workers and the elderly have joined the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) in urging the government to rethink its commitment to pot follows member.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) should be retained as a non-departmental public body, a government consultation has concluded.

Three quarters of participants were unimpressed by the government's apparently fractured approach to pensions policy.

The long-awaited Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards report has criticised the government's handling of part-nationalised UK banks and recommended criminal sanctions for senior executives who behave "recklessly".

Does government tinkering with the pension tax regime really discourage pension savers?

Saga director general Ros Altmann has said the maths behind the retail prices index is not wrong and the Office for National Statistics' proposal to change it is solely about the government reducing costs.

Finance and Technology Research Centre director Ian McKenna has said the auto-enrolment of small to medium sized enterprises will be a "political disaster".