Sickness absence rates edge upwards
Employee sickness absence rates rose during 2019, according to the latest data from XpertHR. The company found that around 6.4 days per employee were lost over the year due to sickness, up...
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Covid crisis revolutionises way employees access health benefits
Behavioural changes in how employees access health and wellbeing benefits due to the pandemic will bring long-term advantages for employers and employees Brett Hill, distribution director at Towergate Health & Protection says...
WorkLife expands employee benefits team
Digital employee benefits service WorkLife has expanded its team with two senior appointments. The service, run by OpenMone,y has appointed Greg Mahon to the role of platform development director, while Philippa Bell...
Roy McLoughlin and Kevin Carr to step down as IPTF co-chairs
Income Protection Task Force co-chairs Roy McLoughlin and Kevin Carr will be stepping down from the role at the end of this year, in an announcement designed to give the organisation time...
Canada Life adds excepted group life to Class
Canada Life has added excepted group life policies to its CLASS (Canada Life Automated Self Service) administration. The platform, which currently administers 12 per cent of the UK employee group protection market,...
Generali links with Bupa to offer Covid tests to GIP clients
Generali Employee Benefits and Bupa have announced a commercial partnership to support wellbeing programmes for UK employers who work for multinational companies. This initiative will initially have a focus on Covid-19 and...
Sparta Health joins Grid
Workplace health, wellbeing and rehabilitation consultancy Sparta Health has joined Group Risk Development, the trade body that lobbies on behalf of the industry. The company said it had made this decision in...
Seven out of 10 employees want better financial education in the workplace
Three out of four employees don’t have any access to financial education in the workplace, according to new research. The financial wellbeing survey, by Aegon, highlights a shortage of financial education with...
Unum reveals huge uptake of virtual GP services
There has been a 400 per cent increase in the usage of the virtual GP since the start of the Covid pandemic, according to one employee benefits insurer. Unum has said that...
Round table: How benefits have performed through lockdown
The 2020 Workplace Wellbeing & Protection Report published by Corporate Adviser Insight has shown the group risk and healthcare market was in a very strong position ahead of the widespread economic disruption...
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