Jelf’s Annual Health and Wellbeing event is here again, and once more we are seeking to help employers manage their absence and health risks with practical advice from leading experts….

The summer hols are over, and this this week sees millions of children returning to school in the UK. And to add to their concerns and fears will be the knowledge that many will…

Given that we are deep in holiday season, it’s entirely possible that many of our regular audience missed our latest press release - and delegate survey findings - on the…

Group Income Protection insurer UNUM has recently presented a blueprint on the above topic. The central theme of this document is that a more “caring” company will better engage with it’s workforce. …

July was a busy month on the frontline of employee benefits - with much movement from the legislators on subjects as diverse as the Health and Work Service, Freedom of Pensions,…

Last night the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) published “Scenario analysis of future pension incomes”. Although lacking a catchy title, the document does provide a useful analysis of the savings that the…

As I mentioned in my post last month (link below), the Freedom of Pension proposals are something of a gamble - or at the very least an educated guess -…

It’s one of those times of year (the other usually being late December) when we commentators in the employee benefits space are suddenly hit with a number of Consultation responses from Whitehall departments as…

Chris Ford, Director of Corporate and Individual Protection at Jelf Employee Benefits, has recently written a rather interesting article for Personnel Today on Absence Management, and in particular how health…

It’s highly unusual for me to get involved in the employee benefits debate from the benefits industry, rather than sponsoring employer, perspective. Yet on occasion I do see the necessity to…