EAP

It was great news when the Coalition Government decided to look at what it could do to improve Britain's sickness absence record. It is an area of public policy that is important to get right if Britain is going to win the global race for business.

Mental health concerns have been high on the agenda of late, from adviser corporate client discussions to Association of British Insurers conferences and Labour leader Ed Miliband's speeches. How significant is this issue for employers and are insurer...

In the modern workplace stress is no longer a peripheral matter. Philip Wood notes it can be key in making a sale to an employer.

Cigna is launching an employee assistance programme to go alongside its occupational health, medical and dental plans.

As a small IFA, I have recently redirected my business towards the SME group market. I am finding clients are obsessed with the price alone. Should I make an effort to sell on the added value of these products, such as EAPs, or should I just concentrate...

More than half (51%) of UK workers have suffered from back pain in the last 12 months with one in five needing time off work as a result, research finds.

The prolonged downward trend in employee absence rates has plateaued with long term sickness increasing, new research finds.

As the first of a series of improvements, Universal Provident (UP) has added a employee assistance programme (EAP) and a care advisory service to its group PMI plan, Choices Corporate.

The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) has released a guide tackling mental illness issues in the workplace.

Financial directors' hold "ridiculous" expectations for the return on investment of their healthcare benefits and sickness absence spend, the Work Foundation has said.