Workplaces need to do more to support employees coping with bereavment, according to new research from MetLife UK. The group risk insurer found that this issue impacted significant numbers of employees, with...
Consultancy firm Benefits Advisory Services has joined the trade body, Group Risk Development (Grid). Grid is an industry-wide body that includes insurers, reinsurers and intermediaries. It works with government, regulators and employers...
Nick McMenemy is Mercer Marsh Benefits new consulting leader for London and the South East, and will head up the company’s large corporate clients consulting teams for the region. McMenemy has worked...
With stigmas around mental health evaporating, more employees feel comfortable talking about their own problems in the workplace. While this is a major step forward, there’s still plenty of uncertainty around how...
Improving employee wellbeing is the top benefits priority for UK employers, ahead of work policies and inclusion policies, according to research from Willis Towers Watson. The consultancy’s 2019 Benefits Trends Survey found...
Discussions about how to jump-start group risk and expand with new-to-market business have being going on for decades, but experts are now demonstrating much greater unanimity of thought. One point on which there...
MetLife is introducing an employee assistance programme (EAP) for its SME proposition to target smaller employers’ need to improve their employees’ wellbeing. The EAP, available to members of SME group life schemes...
Generali UK will now offer Teladoc Health's new mental health navigator service as part of its group income protection policy. This will be offer to all GIP policyholders and their adult family...
After four years out of the employee benefits world, Nick Burns, the man who has headed PIFC, Bluefin and Capita Employee Benefits, is now back at the helm of Gallagher Benefit Services...
Nine out of 10 employees say they have been into work while ill, more than three times the number who will admit to ‘pulling a sickie’ according to new research. This survey...
