Group Risk

Research conducted by the provider found that 43 per cent of EBCs support the idea of new rights to paid short-term leave in employment contracts to help workers who are carers for...

Long-term disability income premiums stood at £724m in 2017, up 6.3 per cent on the previous year, while death-in service premiums rose to £1.3bn, an increase of 4.3 per cent. Group critical illness...

Often, conversations surrounding mental health issues in the workplace - if had at all - are approached with the well-meaning aim of reducing the burden on employees and its impact on businesses’...

Willis has the biggest gap across the consultancies ranked by Corporate Adviser, with a 39.8 per cent gap, although Towers Watson, the legal entity that contains the human capital and benefits business,...

Companies with more than 250 employees have until April 4th to publish their gender pay data or face fines, yet 5,000 organisations are yet to do so. Women at Towers Watson made...

Where will open banking take the employer/ employee relationship? It will help people to get better deals on things – but they need to understand that they now own their banking data,...

HSBC Bank’s mean gender bonus gap - the difference between the bonus paid to male relevant employees and that paid to female relevant employees – is even bigger, standing at 86 per...

Unum’s employee assistance programme (EAP), provided by LifeWorks, received 12,610 calls in 2017, 70 per cent of which related to mental health issues. A further 14 per cent of callers had legal...

While the UK’s productivity gap is a mammoth problem, the range of tools the group risk industry brings to employers to help tackle it is wide and varied. The tools that insurers...

Arguably the biggest challenge facing the UK economy is the stagnation in productivity that has persisted since the 2008 financial crisis. Figures released last October by the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...