The Employment Appeal Tribunal has ruled an employee suffering from depression and anxiety was not disabled under the Equality Act 2010.
EasyJet is introducing biopsychosocial assessments into the workplace, where referral rates to its occupational health services have risen by around 17% this year.
The policymakers at Public Health England will be encouraged by this result, with two-thirds (67%) of respondents saying employers did have a role in supporting wider public health.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has approved arrangements to establish an organisation which will make private healthcare information available via an independent public website.
Employees at publisher Incisive Media have reported improvements in their stress resilience, energy and concentration levels after taking part in a four-month wellness initiative.
Public Health England (PHE) is to pilot a strategy to find out how older workers can be properly supported in the workplace.
Long term shift work is linked to impaired brain power, research published in Occupational & Environmental Medicine has found.
Last month benefits thinking addressed the urgency of taking action to support employee mental health. This month, Owain Thomas reveals that the issue may be far greater than employers imagine.
Embracing technology to boost employee engagement with health and wellbeing does not appear to have caught on among the majority of our readers.
A quarter of British small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) 23% do not have an absence management system in place, research from Jelf Employee Benefits has found.