Wellbeing

Sickness absence is right in any civilised societyI was dismayed to read the comments by Dr Peter Holden (Personnel Today,...

GPs and employers need to co-operate on sicknessThe sicknote debate continues to rage over who should take ultimate responsibility for employee health and absence management problems - employers or GPs. Our news story on 20 June and news analysis on 4 July prompted dozens of impassioned responses from readers. This is small selection...

We have an employee with three years’ service whose attendance has always been an issue. In the past year, he...

Duty of care

Employers have been urged to change their attitudes to female staff or risk burning them out.

Given that the HR community is predominantly female, you are likely to sit up and take notice of the news...

One in 50 Scottish police officers are on long-term sick leave, with a total of 348 officers signed off work

Anti-smoking groups have warned that employers who knowingly put staff members' health at rsik by allowing smoking in the workplace despite known risks could face legal actions for damages

A senior director at a consultancy firm has revealed how an HR-led occupational health scheme run by the company probably saved her life.

Centrica energy firm has joined forces with health consultancy Nuffield Proactive Health to develop an employee wellness programme for the firm's engineers.

Meaningless jobs are a thing of the past for majority of UK's workers.

More than a third of UK employees are now bringing a packed lunch to work in an effort to save money and be healthier, research reveals

Union body urges UK employers to follow example of Japanese prime minister.

I was interested to read ‘Are you making your staff ill?’ (Personnel Today, 20 June). The difficulty is that the...

I run a funeral home and one of our employees accidentally jabbed himself while embalming, on a body that turned...