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Stress now the number one cause of long-term absence
...eport an increase in stress-related absence, compared to just 12% reporting a decrease. Dr Jill Miller, CIPD Adviser, said: “The survey this year shows that stress is for the first time the number one cause of long-term sickness absence, highlighting the heightened pressure many people feel under in the workplace as a result of the prolonged economic downturn. “Stress is a particular challenge in the public sector where the sheer amount of major change and restructuring would appear to be the root cause. To a large degree, managing stress is about effective leadership and people mana...
News | 5 Oct 2011
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This week ‘most stressful of the year’ for workers
This weekend will see the greatest number of UK workers embarking on their summer holidays, leaving colleagues back in the office facing the most stressful period of the corporate calendar. Research conducted amongst over 2,000 workers by Sovereign Healthcare found that just under a third (29%) suffer from increased stress when their colleagues are on holiday. Covering annual leave took second place in the professional pressure league; only the prospect of facing redundancy was cited as more stressful (38%). When compared to periods of personal stress, colleagues being on l...
News | 1 Aug 2011
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The Social Network – 12 years of the Workplace Law Conference
...teChniCaL 38 THE DATA HEALTH AND SAFETY: A karaoke bar in Manchester risked the lives of workers and the public after a string of fire safety procedures were ignored during construction. EAT: The widely published case of former Countryfile presenter, Miriam O'Reilly, looks ahead to April 2011 when, under the Equality Act, cases of dual discrimination will be allowed to be heard. 45 END NOTE As discrimination due to sexual orientation continues to make the headlines, a new employment lawyer group aims to promote equality, writes Adam Lawrence. 22 ADDED VALUE Neil McDiarmid, Head of brand new recru...
Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2011
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Businesses too pressured to combat workplace stress
More than half of HR and health and safety staff believe too much is expected of businesses in protecting workers from stress, according to the findings of a survey undertaken by law firm Pinsent Masons LLP. During a series of seminars on stress and psychiatric injury at work, 54% of senior HR and health and safety staff polled felt there was too much of a burden on businesses to combat workplace stress. In addition, 79% of attendees said they could identify sp...
News | 3 Jul 2009
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Employee Assistance Programmes: worth the effort?
...orkers now find themselves squeezed between ever-increasing living costs and sub-inflation pay rises. As the credit crunch continues to bite, it's likely that employees will increasingly need somewhere to turn to discuss concerns about job insecurity and financial worries. These days, employers are under great pressure to provide emotional and practical support for their people. Yet when a company is focusing on managing growth and meeting customer demands it can be difficult to also keep on top of all the people issues that also affect productivity. Employee morale and performance are at their hig...
News analysis | 16 Dec 2008
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Employers warned: look out for seasonal stress in staff
Employers are being encouraged to keep an eye out for the signs of stress in their staff during the busy pre-Christmas and New Year periods.The Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (IOSH) has highlighted that those working in shops, pubs and restaurants are likely to be under greater pressure than normal with the late pre-Christmas shopping rush and New Year’s sales.Ray Hurst, IOSH’s president, says: "The last week before Christmas is a traditionally busy time as people go out to buy last minute presents. This rush places extra demands on employees who are already l...
News | 17 Dec 2007
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What is stress and why should employers worry about it?
...s management, but there are various Acts and Regulations which employers should bear in mind when dealing with workplace stress. In particular the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require employers to assess the risk of stress-related ill health arising from work activities. Under the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 employers are obliged to control any such risk. It is recognised that a stress risk assessment is more complicated than an assessment involving physical hazards, but employers are nonetheless expected to comply with their obligations. Employers should: identif...
News analysis | 7 Nov 2007
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Stress is the real issue not long hours, says CIPD
...ill health, coming after musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). However, the average annual days lost per case are actually higher for stress, depression or anxiety (31 days) than for MSDs (20 days), accounting for around 13 million working days lost. Employers owe their employees both specific duties under heath and safety legislation and a common law duty to take reasonable care to ensure their health and safety. If an employee can show that they suffered from stress related ill health and his employer could or ought to have foreseen and prevented it, the employer could be found to be negligent. ...
News | 20 Feb 2007
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Businesses encouraged to “stress down”
...be ignored; especially considering the number of high pay out cases there have been in the past few years. For example, in one recent case an employee was awarded £140,000 because of excessive workload resulting from the need to cover for absent colleagues. As well as the problems of absence and under performance, there is no limit to the compensation that employees can get from a finding of negligence against employers. Employers owe their employees both specific duties under heath and safety legislation and a common law duty to take reasonable care to ensure their health and safety. If an empl...
News | 26 Jan 2007
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National Siesta Day: Should Britain be allowed to sleep on the job?
...sk" of errors and/or injury regardless of job type but especially for 58% of DSE (Display Screen Equipment) operaters who have been reporting physiological problems related to Screen Fatigue for years. This report appears to be acknowledging the significant risk of increased stress employees are under just to survive the working day as they expend increasing amounts of energy to push through their fatigue to minimise errors and avoid accidents when they are not actually 'fit to work'. Perhaps it is time to address the issue of work load and pressure as the levels of performance related stress...
Comment | 26 Jun 2008
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Are UK workers less stressed than the rest of Europe?
...found their workplace "too stressful" compared with an average of 27% across Europe. Switzerland and Sweden suffered the highest levels of anxiety in their job (33%), the survey by global recruitment agency Kelly Services found. The poll found that men, older staff and those in steady jobs felt under the greatest pressure. Stress also appears to increase significantly with age, rising from 19 per cent in the 15-24 age bracket to 23 per cent for those aged 45 and above. A correlation also emerged between stress and working long hours. Half of those working in excess of 51 hours a week felt str...
News | 21 Oct 2005
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The burning issue
...will no longer be issued with a fire certificate by their local authority. There are wide-ranging implications for anyone involved in commercial property. The fire and rescue services are welcoming the move with open arms, and state that employers who are already carrying out their responsibilities under health and safety law won't be placed under excessive burden by the new duty to take responsibility for fire safety. The risk-based approach to fire safety allows employers greater flexibility than in the past; from now on fire safety will be goalbased and employers will be able to negotiate and di...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2005
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NHS launches anti-stress campaign
... campaign to help combat stress in the workplace. Steve Barnett, director of NHS Employers, said the campaign will help health service employers to target signs of stress in their employees and to take steps to reduce them. He said: "The impact of stress on employees who work in the NHS is vastly underestimated. Work-related stress is responsible for 30 per cent of sickness absence in the NHS, costing the service £300-400 million per year. When you extrapolate that across the 600 trusts in the country and take into account that the greatest impact of stress is in the hospital sector, that’s a ...
News | 27 May 2005
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2005: getting to grips with the legal year ahead
workplacelaw Know-how to manage your workplace 2005 10 steps to get to grips with the legal year ahead Dec 2004 / Jan 2005 Noise at work New duties to protect employees' hearing `Fat' discrimination Could overweight employees be considered disabled under DDA? Private life Do employees have a duty to behave outside of work? Corporate killing Will businesses be held responsible for workplace fatalities? In every issue: employment law, health & safety, premises management Contents 06 News The latest legal developments affecting the workplace and...
Magazine issue | 15 Dec 2004
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One in three skipping lunch due to work pressure
Almost a third of workers in a recent survey admitted to skipping lunch breaks at work, especially when they are under pressure. According to research from the forthcoming Aviva Health of the Workplace report, a quarter (25%) will only take a lunch break if they feel their workload allows it, while 13% of employees skip meals in the workplace altogether. For some employees, stress results in other poor dietary hab...
News | 19 Aug 2011
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Stress management special
... matter has been almost entirely anti-employer, as commented on by the majority of UK employers who took part in Workplace Law's recent survey on attitudes to managing work-related stress. The point that the media often fails to address is that, regardless of the level of pressure employees are put under at work, individuals' lifestyles may also contribute to their stress levels work alone may not always be the cause of ill-health. At the opposite end of the argument are those who refuse to accept that stress is a genuine issue and claim that those who take sick leave for stress are just weak-wi...
Magazine issue | 1 Nov 2004
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Young employees feeling the effects of stress
...l frequently or always stressed at work. This was in contrast to the nation’s oldest workers, with just one in four of those in their 60s frequently or always feeling stressed. Nearly one in three of those aged 18-29 feel stressed, due to lack of resources to do their jobs effectively or coming under pressure to work long hours. More than 1.5 million young British workers (25%) admit that they are frequently or nearly always affected by the toll work takes on their physical health, while two-fifths (39%) feel that their work–life balance is frequently or nearly always a concern. Sukhi Ghata...
News | 9 Jun 2011
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Internships – Are you breaking the law?
...t town at risk from asbestos'. 16 LEGAL UPDATE Right to request plans shelved; and coming out as gay at work: dos and don'ts for employers. COntinuinG PROFessiOnaL deVeLOPMent 28 TOO IMPORTANT TO WASTE The long awaited Waste Management Regulations have been implemented. Colin Malcolm and Hayley Saunders explain the requirements and the opportunities that exist for those organisations that implement robust waste management plans. 38 CLINIC Workplace Law members ask the experts for advice on key management issues. 09 COMMENT While it's agreed that reducing carbon emissions from the built environm...
Magazine issue | 3 May 2011
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Employers warned of legal risks of failing to manage stress
...tress through good people management. Dame Carol Black, National Director for Health and Work, commented: “It is in employers’ interests to manage stress at work proactively and not just assume all staff are coping, particularly in a tough economic environment where many employees are under pressure to do more with less.” The CIPD’s quarterly July 2010 Employee Outlook survey showed almost half (49%) of staff have noticed an increase in stress at work as a result of the economic downturn. Ben Willmott, Senior Public Policy Adviser, CIPD, said: “Employers that fa...
News | 21 Sep 2010
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Bosses urged to encourage feedback to reduce staff stress
...dson-Feilder of Affinity Health at Work, who was involved in the research, said: "Without holding a mirror up to a person, they can have blind spots about how they come across and if they think they are already good enough, why should they change?"The consequences of stress are pervasive; those under stress may experience psychological symptoms, such as anxiety or depression, physiological symptoms, such as palpitations or raised blood pressure and/or cognitive symptoms such as reduced mental capacity. Stress is a significant cause of sickness absence and this puts pressure on those left be...
News | 14 Jan 2010
