Workplace sickness
Employee Benefits
All companies will now have access to the Business in the Community (BITC) Workwell benchmark enabling them to publically report employee engagement and wellbeing.
01 October 2013
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Underwriting
New research suggests tradespeople are amongst the nation's fittest workers, typically exercising for 16.4 hours each week, over six times the NHS' minimum recommendation of 2.5 hours exercise per week.
01 October 2013
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Employee Benefits
Professional staff are increasingly working more flexibly and remotely, according to poll of 4,000 businesses.
11 September 2013
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Marketing
More than half of all employees have been made redundant or suffered long-term illness during their working life, MetLife Employee Benefits has found.
28 August 2013
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Regulation
Disability charities have slammed the government's Workplace Capability Assessments (WCA) as ‘farcical' as those with progressive conditions are being advised they could consider a return to work.
27 August 2013
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Employee Benefits
Commonly accepted health management best practices are not always effective, a population health management company has found.
06 August 2013
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Employee Benefits
An employment appeal tribunal (EAT) has capped the amount of holiday allowance that employees are able to automatically carry over while off on long term sick leave at four weeks.
24 July 2013
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Group Protection
Health & Case Management (HCML) has launched a case management service to cut workplace absence and reduced productivity costs caused by growing mental health problems.
22 July 2013
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Regulation
The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) is taking action to improve Work Capability Assessments (WCA) by bringing in additional providers, the minister for employment has announced.
22 July 2013
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Employee Benefits
Research from Cass Business School has revealed 64% of businesses have invested in good employee benefits but have not told staff what they are entitled to. But who are these "silent type" firms?
09 July 2013
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