Health and wellbeing

New and updated

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  Editor's choice

  Coming soon

  Updated to promote our 2025 pay forecasts survey, with details of what it will include and how you can take part. 

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  Leading practice guides

  Advancing gender equality in the workplace: Supporting employees' performance and wellbeing

  Enhanced with additional information on how employers can support employees who are experiencing menopausal symptoms, including adopting the BS 30416 - Menstruation, Menstrual Health and Menopause in the Workplace guidance and toolkit.

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  Quick reference

  Dates for your diary

  Updated to include dates for March including National Employee Appreciation Day, Holi, World Down's Syndrome Day and International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

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  Training

  Night working - line manager training

  Updated to reflect that the duty to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment came into force on 26 October 2024.

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  Legal timetable

  Gender pay gap and menopause action plans

  The Employment Rights Bill introduces a requirement for larger employers to publish action plans showing the steps they are taking towards gender equality.

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  Policies and procedures

  Alcohol or drug misuse policy

  Updated to cover the new employer duty to take reasonable steps to prevent workplace sexual harassment, in force from 26 October 2024.  

• Date:

  3 October 2024

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Right to disconnect: What can the UK learn from other countries?

  The UK Government is seeking to introduce the right to "switch off", which will allow workers to disconnect from work and not be contacted by their employer outside working hours. Labour has indicated that it intends to follow the models in Ireland and Belgium but with the details of the legislation still unclear, what clues can employers glean from these and other countries' approaches to the right to disconnect?

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  Leading practice guides

  Championing a stress-free workplace: The business case for managing stress

  Enhanced by creating four separate guides on championing a stress-free workplace, to help you find the guidance you need. This initial guide discusses the business benefits of proactively minimising and managing stress, including the legal duty employers have with regards to employees' health and safety.

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  Leading practice guides

  Championing a stress-free workplace: Understanding the causes of stress

  Leading practice guidance exploring the work-related and personal causes of stress. Understanding these causes should help to inform employers' stress-prevention and management strategies.

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  Leading practice guides

  Championing a stress-free workplace: Foundations for success

  Leading practice guidance discussing the key factors organisations should consider to put themselves in the best place to deter and manage stress.