Coronavirus

Workers with lung conditions are so worried about returning to their workplace some will risk being fired if they are...

Experts in occupational medicine have developed a risk assessment tool to evaluate an individual’s vulnerability to Covid-19, based on their...

Time Out to Help Out campaign aimed at ensuring employees are paid their full normal wage if they are requested to self-isolate and are unable to work from home.

People from ethnic minorities in the UK have been hit disproportionately by job losses and reduced hours during the Covid-19...

Support for over-50s to retrain or gain a new qualification is needed to reduce long-term unemployment, a report has said,...

A new focus on SMEs and younger people who are disadvantaged could lead to an improved demand-led system, says influential think-tank.

National Education Union wants robust testing regime at all schools but ministers rule out testing for teachers and pupils who do not have Covid-19 symptoms.

Researchers found that men were significantly more likely than women to work while on furlough.

One in three organisations expects to cut jobs in the third quarter of 2020, according to the latest Labour Market...

Occupational health nurses up and down the country heeded the call to come to the aid of the hard-pressed NHS...

As work slowly returns to something resembling normality post-pandemic, occupational health will have an important role to play in encouraging...

Occupational health is “thin line” protecting the Covid-19 frontline
The workload in healthcare occupational health has increased 20-fold as a...

The CBI has called for greater clarity on how employers should handle local lockdowns, as increasing numbers of areas come...

British Airways has confirmed today that its plans to make 12,000 job cuts will go ahead, and more than 6,000...

The mental health fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could be immense. Mental health first aid could therefore have a key...