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The UK's headline inflation rate dropped to 1.7% in February, its lowest level since late 2009.

Individuals who have been on a zero-hours contract for at least 12 months should be given the legal right to switch to a fixed hours contract, a thinktank has argued.

The government is backing calls for more public services to be sold off and delivered by private companies owned by employees.

RPMI has appointed former Towers Watson managing director of Europe, the Middle East and Asia (EMEA) Babloo Ramamurthy as a non-executive director to its board.

The Pensions Ombudsman (PO) has refused to order the Prudential to pay compensation after it took too long to transfer a member of its own scheme's funds to Scottish Widows.

Legal & General (L&G) pensions strategy director Adrian Boulding has succeeded Railways Pension Trustee Company chief executive Chris Hitchen as chairman of the Pension Quality Mark (PQM).

JLT Employee Benefits (JLT EB) has bought Ensign Pensions Administration from the Merchant Navy Officers Pension Fund (MNOPF).

LCP has named former Rothesay Life co-head of business development Myles Pink as a principal in its pension buyout practice.

The Pensions Advisory Service (TPAS) received twice the normal number of calls following Chancellor George Osborne's delivery of the Budget 2014.

A number of cultural and financial barriers appear set to impede the take-up of the shared parental leave scheme, according to a report by the Institute of Leadership and Management (ILM).