Wellbeing

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.
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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...

Employers groups have hit back at government claims that many are “decades out of date” when it comes to dealing...

Thank you for highlighting the major issue of stress, which is costing the nation billions of pounds per year in...

I was dismayed but not at all surprised to read about the HR profession’s overwhelming belief that stress is the...

The stubbornly high level of public sector sickness absence is really beginning to grate with me. To make matters worse,...

Occupational health (OH) practitioners should ignore guidance advising employers against asking the age of job candidates, a legal expert said...

Pensions consultation
Regulations on age discrimination in occupational pension arrangements have been reissued by the government. Employers and pension experts...

It was good to see that the Who’s Looking After Our Health? survey by Personnel Today and healthcare provider HSA...

The rapid recovery of Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond after his high-speed crash has amazed the public and medical experts....

Migrant workers are risking their lives every day on UK construction sites, with many employers failing to check whether they...

Government efforts to move people off benefit and into work could fail unless employers get more support to recruit and...