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Opperman has urged UK employers to invest in the health and wellbeing of their staff in a hard-hitting report ‘All Hands on Deck’, co-authored by employment lawyer Laura Farris, where he argues...

Alan Fergusson has launched a new employee benefits consultancy service, known as Beneficia. This consultancy aims to offer ‘in-house’ resources to employers, working with brokers and providers to deliver a range of...

Seven out of 10 employees says mental wellbeing isn’t taken seriously enough in the workplace. The poll - carried out by Health Shied, the cash plan provider - found a similar number...

When it comes to workplace wellbeing, it is telling that it’s a lot easier to talk about what isn’t working than what is. There is rarely much agreement within organisations as to...

Two out of three employee benefit consultants would like to see more protection products for those working in the gig economy. A survey, by MetLife, found more than half of EBCs said...

Generali UK has announced a new partnership with LifeWorks to makes more of its wellbeing services available to employers. The two companies already work together on other products, with LifeWorks providing the...

Health secretary Matt Hancock set out plans to make prevention a central plank of the upcoming NHS long term plan, and a green paper will be published on this issue next year. ...

The Department of Work and Pension has clarified that payouts from protection policies - including income protection, critical illness or terminal illness policies - will not impact on means-testing for Universal Credit....

Zurich Insurance  has launched a new three-year research programme in conjunction with the University of Oxford to look at how today’s workers can get adequate financial protection. This ‘Agile Protection’ study will...

It was the year David Hemery won the 400m hurdles Olympic gold medal, The Beatles released The White Album and a young Ron Wheatcroft joined an insurance company that was ultimately to become part of Swiss Re....