Employee benefits articles
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How climate change is beginning to be built into employee pay and benefits
Companies are facing questions from workers over their role in climate change. Aligning employee pay and benefits with environmental concerns is an option.
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Colon cancer rates are rising. Making screening an employee benefit could help catch it earlier
Colorectal cancer is officially the leading cause death among younger men, according to a January report by the American Cancer Society. It is also the second leading cause for women under 50, after breast cancer. In fact, more than 10% of new colorectal cancer cases now occurring in people younger than 50. The most effective way to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer is routine screening, e.g. colonoscopy, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now recommends at age 45....
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UK families to benefit by up to £3,000 from changes to child benefit tax
New tax year means threshold for benefit charge linked to higher earnings rises to £60,000Several hundred thousand families are to be better off, some by as much as £3,000, during the 2024-25 tax year after the government finally admitted that a child benefit measure brought in 11 years ago had not worked fairly.A change to child benefit is just one of a raft of changes coming in on 6 April, the start of the new tax year, including a cut in national insurance for employees to 8% from 10%.The...