The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) is to hold a live, interactive web seminar tomorrow to advise employers how to deal with the swine flu pandemic.

Parity Training has enhanced its employee benefits package to add private medical insurance and a raft of risk benefits.

The Co-operative Group and the Co-operative Financial Services are to upgrade their occupational health provision.

Unilever is well aware of the business benefits of a healthy workforce. It should do - it is on its third initiative, a year-long pilot of health checks involving 2,000 staff.

It is very hard to define what a health and wellbeing policy is and even harder to assess what contribution it makes to employee performance and company profitability.

It makes sense for employers to promote healthy living to staff. But how gender-specific does the message have to be to reflect the sexes' differing attitudes to health?

It was exactly two years ago this month that the Government's ban on smoking in the workplace single-handedly presented companies with a zero-cost way of tacking staff ill-health.

Employers are increasingly using community pharmacists in an effort to keep their workers healthy - spurring other healthcare providers to improve their offerings.

Employers will doubtless have read numerous articles telling them how bad workplace stress is and how the recession is exacerbating matters - articles that probably cause more stress and leave them...

BT has revealed more than 5,000 employees have undertaken an online risk assessment for diabetes in just six weeks.

A qualification for managers to help improve the health and wellbeing of their staff is being piloted by EEF, the manufacturers organisation.

Workplace stress is set to cost UK businesses more than 673 million this year, equating to 13.5 million stress-related sick days.