Disability

A growing number of UK employees are now legally using medical cannabis to manage conditions such as chronic pain, anxiety...

Manager who left job after being 'victim of continuous bullying and racism' – including being called a ‘slave’ – awarded £360,700 at tribunal.

Businesses employing disabled people are complaining they are owed hundreds of thousands of pounds by the government, and fear they...

Companies employing drivers are being warned they need to proactively monitor and risk manage for type 2 diabetes, as those...

Healthcare staff could go door-to-door within communities to tackle sickness, ill-health worklessness and absence from work, as part of the...

The number of working days lost to asthma and respiratory illnesses has soared since the pandemic, with a 153% increase...

Union body the TUC has backed calls to create a national database to map the presence of asbestos in buildings....

Four research projects aiming to reduce health-related economic inactivity and ill-health worklessness are to get a £7m cash injection between...

Workers in their forties and fifties are becoming less likely to do regular exercise, so potentially storing up health problems...

Army bomb disposal veterans may have a significantly increased risk of developing bladder cancer compared with the general public, according...

People struggling with breathing difficulties are being forced to make as many as five trips to A&E before bringing their...

Government-backed research is looking at how people living with dementia can be better supported to stay living independently.
Four new...

If the government is serious about stemming the flow of those suffering with ill health from leaving the labour market,...

The Mayfield review is urging employers and workplace health professionals to engage with it about what works and doesn’t work when it comes to healthcare interventions.

With mandatory ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting on the horizon for large employers, Kavitha Sivasubramaniam looks at the potential impact of its introduction and what it could mean for pay equity