The likelihood companies will suffer from absences through ill-health has nearly doubled in the past three months, due to infections from swine flu and other colds and viruses, research has found.
EXCLUSIVE: Nearly three quarters (73%) of companies do not comply with VDU regulations because they only fund either eye tests or the cost of any glasses required, but not both, as they should.
NICE - the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence - will today launch new guidance for employers about how to improve mental wellbeing promotion.
Today, the average Brit is burning fewer calories yet consuming more. Two thirds of the UK's adult population is overweight, a quarter is obese and all the signs are that the situation is getting...
East Sussex County Council has implemented a new absence management service for 3,000 employees.
Employee Assistance Programmes (EAPs) are being used to support stressed staff during the recession, according to new figures from health and wellbeing provider FirstAssist Services.
Plans to abolish the sick note in favour of a 'well note' could force sick and injured people back to work before they are well enough, according to legal experts.
Staff absence could cost UK business 5 billion today and on Monday as workers call in 'sick' because of the Ashes final, Andrew 'Freddie' Flintoff's last Test Series, school holidays and paranoia over...
A sea change is needed if NHS employers are to reap the benefits of return on investment in health and wellbeing, according to an independent review of the health of NHS staff.
Employers can now calculate the risk of employee absence in their business, following the launch of the Absence Risk Barometer
Just as British businesses are adjusting to new working patterns brought about by cost-cutting exercises in the face of the economic downturn, they find themselves facing the growing threat of mass...
The Welfare Reform Bill will force employers to rethink absence management policies, with emphasis on prevention and rehabilitation.
