MetLife UK has extended access to its group life end-of-life services to include the parents and in-laws of employees with the benefit. The life and legacy services are provided...
Read moreDetailsMore than half of Gen Z and millennial workers are considering taking on a second job to manage the cost of living. A survey with 5,609 UK employees conducted...
Read moreDetailsAlmost all defined contribution (DC) pension savers, 97 per cent, support investing their retirement savings into affordable housing, seeing it as a critical social issue, according to research from...
Read moreDetailsAviva has launched a new ‘flex first, fix later’ guided retirement service and product for its workplace customers. Initially the blended solution will be available to people saving through...
Read moreDetailsFour in five UK employees received smaller pay rises in 2025 than 2024, as data shows that pay increases remained at 3 percent for the seventh consecutive rolling quarter....
Read moreDetailsBenenden Health has partnered with Reframe Cancer, a specialist cancer navigation support provider, to give Benenden’s 870,000 members access to specialist services. Reframe Cancer’s CQC registration enables them to...
Read moreDetailsDeath-in-service benefits from a registered scheme will be excluded from inheritance tax (IHT)) when the government brings pensions into the IHT net in 2027. The government confirmed this yesterday...
Read moreDetailsThe UK has a pensions adequacy problem. Many people are not saving enough into their workplace pensions for a comfortable retirement, and a significant proportion won’t have enough to...
Read moreDetailsThe government’s revived Pensions Commission, led by Baroness Drake, is set to re-examine auto-enrolment and the state pension age (SPA). One of the commission’s aims is to build cross-party...
Read moreDetailsTesco’s efforts to appeal against a major equal pay case with around 55,000 claimants have been delayed by an "elephant behind a screen", according to judges at the hearing....
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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.
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.
