Coronavirus

A Midlands NHS trust has had to redeploy medical trainees to help support ward staff after its plans to bring in doctors from abroad were scotched.

A record number of small business owners are planning to close their firms over the next 12 months, a survey by the FSB has found.

Working from home will not be the ‘new normal’ in a post-Covid world, chancellor Rishi Sunak has said.

The construction sector faced major workplace health, safety and wellbeing challenges even before the logistical and financial problems generated by...

BBC staff in key locations have been told they must wear ‘proximity devices’ to aid social distancing on its premises....

The Covid-19 pandemic has left occupational health practitioners struggling to cope with massive return-to-work, mental health, risk management and infection...

Updated furlough guidance confirms scheme can be used where employees can't work because they are caring for children while schools are closed.

SOM (The Society of Occupational Medicine), The Faculty of Occupational Medicine (FOM) and the University of Glasgow held a summit...


Optimism around the impact of the coronavirus vaccine roll-out led to an increase in both permanent and temporary job...

Europe's largest economy reports better than expected jobless figures despite renewed lockdown.

Some employers in sectors badly effected by the pandemic have resorted to aggressive tactics with the aim of cutting senior...

The unprecedented shift towards home and flexible working brought about by Covid-19 has led many employers to announce permanent new...

New guidance has been published on managing the long-term health effects of Covid-19, or so-called ‘long Covid’.
The guidance by...

More than three-quarters of people (76%) say they will agree to be vaccinated against Covid-19 when their turn comes, as...

Zurich is offering two weeks’ fully-paid emergency ‘lockdown leave’ to parents and carers affected by school closures.
The Swiss insurance...