Tag: stress
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UK: recent rulings provide a reminder that employees with work-related stress may be able to satisfy the definition of disability
Australia: Workplace violence and red collar crime: Is it more threatening than you think?
Workplace violence is a significant and ongoing risk that employers should be alive to because it affects employee health, safety and wellbeing, which in …
UK: proposed reforms to fitness for work, statutory sick pay and mental health protections
An independent review of mental health at work, commissioned by the Prime Minister, has been published. The Stevenson/Farmer review calls on employers to …
UK: Discipline - raising non-urgent or trivial concerns while an employee is on stress-related sick leave may amount to constructive dismissal
Employers should consider carefully whether it is necessary to raise disciplinary concerns with an employee while they are absent on stress-related sick …
Japan: Employers to offer stress checks to workers
From December 2015 amendments to Japan’s Industrial Safety and Health Act will require employers regularly employing 50 workers or more to offer an …
UK: New resources
Acas small employers' guide on handling staff pay Acas guides explaining the rights to leave for attending antenatal and adoption appointments and on …
Japan: New measures to prevent death due to overwork
The Government has enacted legislation to promote measures to prevent death due to overwork. Japan is notorious for its overtime working culture. …
UK: Reasonable adjustments for disability - employers may need to pay for private counselling to assist return to work
Employers may need to consider paying for an employee with work-related stress and depression to have private psychiatric counselling and cognitive …
UK: New resources - July 2012
CIPD and HSE free stress management tool designed to help equip managers with the skills to manage positively and prevent stress in their staff. …