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Alcohol use and the link between financial, physical & mental wellbeing

This article will focus on alcohol use. We’ll investigate the way in which the financial, physical and psychological can and do interact, and look at the knock-on effect for employers.

EmpLaw Newsletter March 2018

Knowledge of disability, Modern working practices review, Dismissal before a TUPE transfer .. and much more

Why Work Related Stress could be the thing that unifies HR and Risk

Both HR and Risk share a common goal: namely to mitigate Work-Related Stress (WRS). For HR, it’s a Duty of Care responsibility and, as part of this, an absence and retention issue. For Risk, it’s an employers’ liability (EL) claims issue. For the overall employer, it’s the potential damage to ...

The biggest benefit of health apps and virtual GPs

The doctor will see you now…not in two weeks’ time. One of the biggest advantages of the real-time world afforded by technology is the growing market for health apps and virtual GP services.

EmpLaw Newsletter Feb 2018

Refusing to work in protest, surveilance sameras at work, data protection, whistleblowing . . and much more

Generali UK partners with VSP Vision Care to help more employers fund essential disease prevention services

Generali UK and global vision benefits leader VSP® Vision Care today announce their intent to help make essential Duty of Care and disease prevention services accessible to more employees, thanks to the insurer’s Wellbeing Investment Matching initiative.

Menopause: five top tips to support employees

The menopause is still seen as a highly private issue. Discussing it with a line manager is likely to fill women with dread. Line managers, unless they’ve experienced the menopause first hand, won’t have much understanding.

The menopause & the Equality Act: why it pays to provide support

Stigma in the workplace isn’t just associated with mental health. Menopause is not that far behind in the stigma stakes – and arguably closely linked, considering it can lead to anxiety and depression in some - but unlikely to receive the same kind of media and government attention as mental ...

EmpLaw Newsletter Jan 2018

Failure to Auto-Enrol into pension, false reason for dismissal, data breaches, Free movement rights, and much more . . .

Registered pension and life assurance scheme trustees and administrators face HMRC changes a year earlier than planned.

HMRC recently announced, as part of its pension scheme efficiency drive, that it will move existing scheme administrator data onto the new Pension Online Digital Service by April 2018 – a year earlier than originally planned.