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Budget 2025: Salary sacrifice cap could hit employers with £1.5m tax bill
The Chancellor’s plan to cap salary sacrifice pension contributions at £2,000 a year could leave the largest UK employers facing...
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Alex Elliott: New limits on NDAs, what’s ahead for employers?
A clampdown on non-disclosure agreements (NDAs), included in the Employment Rights Bill (ERB), may protect victims, but it risks turning...
Luke McClaran: prevention pays, why employer health checks matter
With low uptake of NHS health checks, employers are stepping into the gap, says Luke McClaran, chief people officer at...
From ‘boat people’ to boardrooms: HR can help reshape migration mindsets
The story of Vietnamese refugee Trinh Tu, who rose to become an MD at Ipsos, underlines how migrants, when given...
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BENEFITS UNBOXED PODCAST
Benefits Unboxed
The podcast from Benefits Expert, the title for HR, reward and benefits professionals.
Seasoned professionals examine the challenges and innovations in today’s employee benefits, reward and HR sector. Every episode, they will unbox a key issue and unpack what it really means for employers and how they can tackle it.
The regulars are Claire Churchard, editor of Benefits Expert; Carole Goldsmith, HR director at the Royal Horticultural Society, and Steve Herbert, consultant and rewards & benefits veteran.
Benefits Unboxed – Hybrid work: reality versus rhetoric
Return-to-office mandates are a topic that’s generating plenty of heat in the media, but how closely do the headlines match workplace reality?
In this episode, one of a three-part series of 10-minute podcasts, hosts Claire Churchard and Steve Herbert discuss data that shows remote or home working is on the rise.
We look at what this means for HR, from balancing employee flexibility with business needs, to ensuring benefits packages remain fair and accessible. We discuss the pinch points, and the opportunities, in building the new normal of work.
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PENSIONS
New digital consolidation service helps employees manage old pension pots
Wealth at work has launched a new digital pension consolidation service, to help employers empower their workforce to better manage...
Better communications needed to address pensions gender gap: report
Women would need to work nearly two decades longer than men to achieve the same retirement savings, according to a...
Chancellor ponders £4bn tax raid on salary sacrifice schemes
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is reportedly eyeing a £4bn tax grab by tightening the rules around salary sacrifice schemes on pensions....
Public split over allowing first-time buyers to dip into AE funds
Public opinion is sharply divided over whether people should be allowed to dip into auto-enrolment pension pots to help buy...
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HEALTH & WELLBEING
More than one in three employers expect employee engagement to get harder, according to new research from Towergate Employee Benefits. The study found that found that 37 per cent of employers believe this will be an issue, citing the complexity of hybrid working, dispersed teams and digital communication overload as...
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Stress is a leading cause of short-term absence, affecting a quarter of workplaces, according to Simplyhealth and the CIPD. The 24th health and wellbeing at work report shows that 64 per cent of HR professionals recorded stress-related absence last year, with heavy workloads cited by 41 per cent, personal health...
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The total cost of workplace-related injuries and ill health stood at £22.9 billion in 2023/24, according to latest data from the Government’s Health & Safety Executive department. HSE data also show that around 40.1m working days were lost to ill health in 2024/25. Of the total cost, the HSE says...
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