Carers UK and Sainsbury’s have joined forces on national Carers Rights Day 2011 to help support the UK’s 6.4 million people in the UK who care for ill or disabled people.
Transport for London (TfL) has committed to raising awareness about mental illness and to helping stop the stigma associated with it.
The healthcare sector has warmly welcomed a Government-backed review into sickness absence, which recommends staff should be signed off for long-term sickness by an independent assessment service and...
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...
