Employee health and wellbeing has been at the forefront of every employer's mind over the past year. We look at how this focus has changed the provision of health-related benefits.
A model policy to explain an employee assistance programme which deals with objectives, organisational commitment, aims, eligibility, agreement, accessing the service, management information, confidentiality, publicity, evaluation and relationship with other policies.
We explore the potential impact of workers' exposure to traumatic events and other stressful environments on their families and look at some of the measures that employers can take to support those families.
Where an employee is experiencing stress related to excessive workloads, the presence of a workplace counselling service will not automatically serve to discharge the employer's duty of care in stress claims.