The soaring cost of childcare and its increasing scarcity is preventing millions of parents from working and hitting some industries particularly hard.
Employment lawyers are warning that businesses could see an "immediate" significant impact from the travel to work ruling.
Providing a pension scheme without additional support and financial education is "becoming insufficient", Scottish Widows warns.
Aegon has initiated a review of its annuity business in the UK.
The increasing cost of servicing its £1.2bn pension shortfall helped push pre-tax profits at John Lewis down over a quarter in the first half of the year.
The monetary policy committee (MPC) of the Bank of England (BoE) has voted eight to one to keep rates at 0.5%.
Age Partnership has launched a service to gather member information for schemes exploring a medically underwritten bulk annuity deal.
Providing a pension scheme without additional support and financial education is "becoming insufficient", Scottish Widows warns.
Employees who do not have a work base must have the travel to and from their first and last customers included as part of their working time, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled.
One in four people seeking guidance on their pensions also seek advice on managing money, benefits and debt.