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Canada Life's Paul Avis discusses the potential for growth in the group risk market with Fiona Murphy.

Unum's Andrew Potterton discusses the impact for SMEs following last year's changes to Statutory Sick Pay and how intermediaries can help manage the fallout of rising sickness absence costs.

The government should make sickness absence policies ‘more flexible' to allow employees with fluctuating health conditions to pre-emptively arrange part-time sick leave, a report has urged.

Unum's Tim Jackson discusses how and why protection advisers should get more involved with using social media.

Unum has moved its group protection policy administration to Mastek's Elixir system to integrate with broker and customer platforms more easily.

Unum has launched an enhanced Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) to help employers deal with staff well-being issues as part of Unum LifeWorks.

Unum has launched a set of workshops to help employers spot and manage some of the most common causes of sickness absence.

Unum has announced it will increase the number of staff on its sales team who work face to face with brokers in a bid to grow the UK protection market.

Employers must do more to address musculoskeletal conditions in the workplace says Unum's Andrew Potterton.

Unum has urged the government to improve take-up of income protection (IP) through four key steps including channels such as the Money Advice Service (MAS) raising awareness of sickness absence.