Wellbeing

Call me narrow-minded, but I think that people with mental health problems present real difficulties for employers. I was, therefore,...

Q I am required to provide Bradford Factor reports [a way of measuring sickness absence that concentrates on instances of...

Recent research showed that more than eight out of 10 staff (or 84%, if you’d rather) are ‘pulling sickies’. In...

Q Would an employee who booked a holiday and was then off sick during that holiday (covered under a self-certification...

I’m not surprised that employers are up in arms about comments that they are ignoring the mental health issues of...

Businesses are still failing their staff when it comes to managing working at heights, according to statistics from Norwich Union....

A quarter of sick days can be attributed to work-related stress, a survey by HR consultancy Ceridian showed.
The poll...

The government has again hinted at introducing incentives to encourage employers to offer occupational health (OH) services to staff. Speaking...

I was interested to read in your Weekly Dilemma column (Personnel Today, 12 September) about the most appropriate way to train...

The TUC has published a report aimed at busting the most common health and safety ‘myths’.
To coincide with European Health and...

Two-thirds of employees are fed up with fellow workers pulling ‘sickies’ when they are not really ill, a Ceridian survey...

Sickness absence is costing Dundee City Council £5.75m a year, a report has revealed. A progress report on the council’s...

NHS Employers has launched a new campaign aimed at raising awareness of and tackling bullying in the NHS.
The body...

People with asbestos-related disease and their families are lobbying Parliament calling for funding for a drug to treat asbestos-related cancer.The...

An appeal to the law lords to reinstate compensation for sufferers of asbestos-related condition pleural plaques, where it was acquired at...