Chancellor George Osborne has extended the removal of the diesel supplement on company cars until 2021 - costing employers an estimated £1.36bn extra.
Willis plans to offer Towers Watson shareholders a £117.75m ($179m) sweetener to head off legal challenges targeting the merger of the two consultants.
Towers Watson and Willis Group are planning to merge in a deal worth around $18bn (£11bn). But what is the rationale behind the move? WSB looks at the five key reasons behind the amalgamation.
A former owner of Carrington Wire Limited (CWL) has been banned from acting as a company director after helping the firm's parent company dump its defined benefit (DB) scheme.
The majority of benefits professionals believe salary sacrifice schemes "form an excellent element" of reward packages in motivating and retaining staff.
Three in five (61%) adults fear they will not be able to pay the bills if they become ill with cancer.
Almost 5.5 million people in 60,000 firms have been automatically enrolled since 2012, according to the latest government figures.
The government has been urged to introduce a mandatory period of paid leave for carers as a report reveals their unpaid efforts save the state £132bn a year.
Asda has seen more than one in five employees sign-up to its share scheme this year.
Employees are being paid more in real terms for the first time since 2008 - largely due to the prolonged fall in inflation, official statistics reveal.