A large majority of illnesses that result in employees needing time off work are contracted from dirty office environments. Poor hygiene and cleanliness in office bathrooms can intensify the problem further, and place workers’ health [...]
Office Christmas parties are becoming more elaborate, and across the UK nearly £1 billion will be splashed out on everything from professional entertainment and decorations to high-quality food and free-flowing alcohol. After a hard [...]
Usdaw’s annual respect week, 13 - 19 November, is when the union’s reps and members organise awareness events as part of the Freedom from Fear Campaign, which seeks to prevent verbal abuse, threats and violent [...]
THREE in four British employees say they’ve witnessed bullying in their workplace, according to shocking new research. Workplace Bullying is mistreatment in the form of humiliating and intimidating conduct, such as gossiping about colleagues, excluding them [...]
Aon Employee Benefits, the UK health and benefits business of Aon plc (NYSE: AON), has said that employers who were hoping for a reprieve from the changes to Optional Remuneration Arrangements (OPRA) will be disappointed [...]
Employers must learn how to adequately support staff who have suffered strokes in response to changing workforce demographics. That is the advice of HR and diversity consultancy, the Clear Company, during National Stroke Survival Month. Research [...]
Shopworkers’ trade union leader John Hannett has called for action to prevent violence threats and abuse against shopworkers as the British Retail Consortium (BRC) reveals a 40% increase in incidents of violence and abuse against [...]
The International SOS Foundation, the global not-for-profit organisation striving to protect the health, wellbeing and safety of people at work, and leading Scottish commercial law firm Burness Paull, have published the ‘Sending Workers Abroad’ white [...]
Team Scotland’s Louise Haston is throwing her weight behind a crowdfunding campaign that aims to tackle one of the UK’s most prolific health problems – lower back pain. One in four people across the UK [...]
Drivers who suffer stress are more likely to be in a road crash, warns a road safety organisation as people return to work and school in "Stresstember" - the month identified by health professionals as [...]