A new service has been launched to help NHS trusts respond to the Department of Health's new employee Health and Wellbeing agenda - and to benchmark their progress.

Stagecoach has sent a Heart Healthy Bus on a tour of its depots, to provide heart health checks for thousands of its employees.

While many employers apply risk management techniques to their commercial insurance, far fewer do the same with their death-in-service cover.

Staff are being forced to fend for themselves as a growing number of employers are no longer offering long-term sickness benefit or death in service benefits.

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...

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

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

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

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...

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.

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...