Wellbeing

A serious illness need not spell the end of someone's working life. HR professionals can help staff with critical conditions work to the best of their abilities, discovers Sally O'Reilly.

UK businesses are not fully prepared for the new smoking ban legislation which comes into force on 1 July, new...

The UK risks creating a “safety apartheid” by its treatment of migrant workers in hazardous industries, lawyers have warned.Law firm...

Unions will urge the UK to remember those killed through work and will campaign for greater health and safety enforcement...

Three in 10 people are unhappy working in HR, according to a Personnel Today poll. Ninety-three of the 305 respondents...

Bob Kiley, the former Transport for London boss, recently spoke out about his alcoholism, admitting that he often drank vodka...

The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has published a highly critical response to the Freud Report on welfare reform,...

UK bosses are more sympathetic than their employees when it comes to sickness absence, research has revealed.A survey conducted by...

Smokers should be given paid time off work to help them kick the habit, new public health guidance has recommended....

Westminster City Council has hailed its restructured sickness absence policy, following a decline in sickness absence rates.The new programme was...

I have an extraordinary sickness absence record. In the 15 years that I have been a member of the workforce...

Another day, yet another survey damning hardworking Britons, branding them with the Scarlet Letter of sloth and deception. For two...

To some employees, a sick day is a means to extend the weekend. But you can take action.

I must respond to the letters from Janet Mckenzie and Eleanor London (Personnel Today, 3 April). Although Mckenzie recognises that...

An employee competed in the London Marathon. She was running for charity in fancy dress and tripped on part of...