Is a healthy workforce the sign of a healthy company?

Our recent Global Wellness Survey highlighted that 50% of participants in the UK now have a workplace wellness strategy. Why are these companies so interested in the health and wellbeing of their...

Closure of defined-benefit pensions can leave costly health and sickness provision shortfall

Employers are unaware closing a defined-benefit (DB) pension scheme could have an impact on sickness provision, new research reveals.

Unions and employers must to more to ensure HIV/AIDS sufferers are not stigmatised at work

HIV and AIDS are workplace issues and employers need to address the issue, according to the TUC.

Boorman review highlights need to improve health of NHS staff

The health of NHS staff must improve, according to an independent report from the Department of Health.

The flaws of the fit note system

Proposals to introduce fit notes in place of the current sick notes system have been the subject of intense debate among HR professionals, the medical world and businesses throughout the UK. Plans...

Risk from swine flu absence doubles

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.

Three-quarters of firms are breaking VDU regulations

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.

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Keeping the workforce healthy may not be an employer's duty, but it's certainly in their own interests

Do employers have a duty of care to employees to ensure they are aware work commitments have an impact on physical inactivity? Many employers would say that the level of physical activity among their...

NICE challenges employers to cut workplace stress

NICE - the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence - will today launch new guidance for employers about how to improve mental wellbeing promotion.

Employers warned to educate staff on the importance of hand-washing in minimising infection

Almost nine out of 10 people think businesses should do more to educate their employees about hand-washing and other infection-prevention practices.

Nestle staff walk more than eight kilometres a day in major wellbeing initiative

Over one third of Nestl UK's 5,000 staff have collectively covered the equivalent of walking around the world 30 times, as part of a major wellbeing initiative.

SMEs are invited to bid for share of 4 million Health, Work and Well-being Challenge Fund

The Government is to invest 4 million over the next two years in improving health and wellbeing for staff at small organisations.