The independent sickness absence review recommended that employee assistance programmes retain their tax exemptions.

Nuffield Health has formed a partnership with Compass Group UK & Ireland designed to improve wellbeing at work.

Legal & General is set to “significantly reduce” absenteeism and increase productivity across its entire workforce, following the launch of a successful health and wellbeing pilot initiative.

Stress-related mental ill health is the most common cause of long-term absence for almost one in six employers (15%), according to a study of 500 employers by Group Risk Development (GRiD), the trade...

The British Safety Council has launched its new website www.britsafe.org aimed at strengthening the global health and safety charity’s online interaction with its members and wider health, safety and...

Improving pay may be the top reason people give for wanting to move jobs in the current climate but employers that neglect concerns about trust in senior leaders, stress in the workplace or job...

More than 100,000 Co-operative Group employees are set to receive a free flu jab in Europe's largest ever private sector flu vaccination programme.

Unite, the country's biggest trade union, has recently teamed up with UK mental health charity Mind to examine how mental health is affecting workers. Unite estimates that 70 million working days are...

Macmillan Cancer Support has launched The Essential Work and Cancer Toolkit, to help employers support people with cancer, and their carers, in the workplace, and features an employer’s guide produced...

The wellbeing agenda is a rapidly growing movement. It is appearing not only in public policy but in economics and business, says Simon Lutterbie (pictured).

The Liberal Democrats have launched a policy paper, which aims to make promoting quality of life an integral part of public policy making.

Employers, unions and the Government have joined forces to launch the first ever national flu vaccination campaign for NHS workers, in a bid to reduce the impact of seasonal flu on its patients and...