EAPs have seen a pretty dramatic evolution. Starting out life in the 1940s as a very focused solution to white-collar alcoholism in US office culture, their remit widened over the decades to...
At a time of low unemployment, high turnover, skills shortages and largely stagnant pay, employers are challenged to make much more of what they have, particularly with regards to benefits – a huge area of spend for...
AIG Life is adding a virtual GP and health service to all of its individual and group protection insurance offerings. The online tool called Smart Health gives all AIG Life individual customers...
Unum is offering a range of medical support services to group income protection policyholders through its new ‘Help@Hand’ app. This service will be available at no addition cost, and will offer employees...
More than a quarter of UK workers diagnosed with cancer felt let down by their employer, with 28 per cent of employees saying they either received no support whatsoever of the support...
Group life insurance has a specific challenge with the use of two trust vehicles to provide death benefits which purport to do the same thing. Group life insurance is a workplace benefit, paid...
The Health Insurance Group is rebranding to Towergate Health & Protection, following February 2019’s acquisition of the company by The Ardonagh Group. The Ardonagh Group already owned Towergate Health & Protection, and...
A report by Thomsons has found that 70 per cent of organisations surveyed have upskilled existing HR team members to develop people analytics teams, while 23 per cent have hired in external...
Nick Burns has been named CEO of Gallagher’s Employee Benefits Consulting Division, UK, replacing Tim Johnson who stepped down earlier this year. Burns has held numerous roles across the corporate intermediary sector,...
The Department of Work and Pensions has launched a new health in the workplace report, which contains a number of recommendations to reduce ill-health related job losses. The DWP says that despite...
