Supreme Court closes ‘loophole’, paving the way for flexible workers to claim thousands in backdated holiday pay from employer.
A group of care workers who faced termination for refusing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine during the pandemic have been granted the right to appeal their dismissals.
In the face of rapidly rising health care costs, now is the time to balance spending with a holistic benefits experience.
Just under a third of workers have experienced sexually inappropriate behaviour at work, but many are afraid to report it. The post Only half of employees would report sexual harassment appeared first on Personnel Today.
Ahead of the World Mental Health Day on 10 October, International SOS, the world’s leading health and security risk services company, puts a spotlight on the increasing importance of mental health resilience for global workforces. In a global landscape in which there are ongoing poly- and permacrises, the impact of these challenges on the mental health of employees has never been more significant. A global pandemic, the cost-of-living crisis, geopolitical …
Long-term illness in the UK workforce cost UK employers £21 billion between July 2022 and August 2023, according to GoodShape, the enterprise health management platform. The new data reveals employers lost 147 million working days during the period – the equivalent of every employee in the UK losing 4.5 working days per year. It is a problem that is accounting for over half of the UK’s workforce productivity problem – which cost £41.8bn over the twelve months. Long-term sickness, defined by GoodShape as an absence lasting 20 working days or more – is a worsening …