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Employee benefits must be overhauled to protect workers

Employee benefits must be overhauled as they have failed to adapt to a changing workforce leaving workers financially exposed, a report has urged

05 Jun 2013

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Feature

Age presents challenges for a changing workforce

Employers should use existing performance management systems to proactively address concerns with employees - regardless of age, writes Rebecca Harding-Hill and Elin Hannah

21 Mar 2013

Event

FD Evening with Unum

Join us at the FD Evening with Unum – 25th April Soho Hotel, London. The theme is ‘getting value from your benefits programme’

11 Apr 2012

Special

Trend setters

An already difficult-to-predict workforce has only got more complicated. This has spurred a genuine revival in analytics, finds Peter Crush

22 Feb 2012

Analysis

Regulations to hike cost of temp workers

Regulations coming into force in October will give agency workers unprecedented new rights that could end up costing businesses, writes James Wilders

04 Aug 2011

Opinion

The FD blog: Amid budget pain, councils are devaluing their FDs

Our latest In The National Interest blog from the public sector shows FDs being laid off or having their opinion devalued

14 Mar 2011

News

Bell is new British Land FD

Deputy FD takes over in May after almost 20 years with the business

11 Mar 2011

Opinion

Brussels sprouts fairytale gender equality plan for final salary pensions

Latest ruling outlaws gender as a basis for determining annuities and life contracts

02 Mar 2011

Opinion

The Davies Report: can corporates learn from the third sector on women in boardrooms?

CEO of the Charity Finance Directors' Group writes exclusively for Financial Director

01 Mar 2011

Analysis

Davies report avoids female board member quotas - for now

Even if quotas were introduced today, it would still take 16 years for parity to be reached

24 Feb 2011

News

Public sector job losses to rise

Four out of 10 businesses planned redundancies in the first quarter of this year

14 Feb 2011

News

Co-operative Group CFO becomes deputy CEO

Martyn Wates led the group through recession to record growth and stability

24 Nov 2010

News

Bootle predicts one percent UK 2011 growth but thinks public sector cuts will be exploited

Will opportunities abound as hitherto state-served public sector markets open up?

01 Nov 2010

News

490,000 public sector jobs to go in Osborne's spending review

Danny Alexander "accidentally" shows photographers extent of cuts while leafing through Wednesday's report as he left HM Treasury

19 Oct 2010

Opinion

Comment: Rising unemployment threatens incipient recovery

Germany, France and Japan have returned to positive growth in the second quarter of 2009, with the US and the UK likely to follow before the end of the year. The recession in output is over, but unemployment is still rising. Download the full pdf of Financial Director’s market charts

14 Sep 2009

Analysis

Unemployment figures at an all-time high

The rate of unemployment reached its highest level since 1997 in the three months to January 2009, rising to 6.5% ­ 2.03 million people, the Office for National Statistics says

24 Mar 2009

Upcoming Events

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08.45 AM, Thu 20 Jun 2013

FD Summit 2013: Building a vision in uncertain times

The FD Summit 2013 will feature some of the UK's most senior finance experts, speaking at the Intercontinental Hotel, Westminster

Latest Opinion

Celebrations over 0.3% growth are premature

Positive growth is to be welcomed but relief over 0.3% growth is overdone and focuses on the wrong issue

Should your network be broad or deep?

To add value to the boards you sit on, or to the boards of your clients, Hilary Briggs advocates you need both breadth and depth in your network

The role of finance in building a strategic vision

Ahead of the FD Summit on 20 June, guest speaker Adam Kennedy looks at the role of finance in building company's a strategic vision

Latest Analysis

Audit committees need to get cracking on Companies Act reform

Companies Act reform welcomed but audit committees must start working on this quickly

Boxing clever: The rise of cash box placements

Issuing shares for cash is an awkward process, but there is an alternative that has been used by major companies, claims Kate Ball-Dodd

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