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- Date:
- 12 April 2019
- Type:
- Legal guidance
Many men and women still view menstruation as a taboo topic and feel uncomfortable talking about periods, even though they affect 51% of the UK population at some point in their life. Natalie Taylor looks at whether period pain can constitute a disability and at ways employers can support women with more severe symptoms.
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- Date:
- 28 March 2019
- Type:
- Audio and video
Darren Newman discusses tricky sickness absence related issues, including the relationship between sickness absence and disability discrimination, and the steps you can take to support an employee's return to work.
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- Date:
- 12 March 2019
- Type:
- Case studies
Mediacom talks to XpertHR about ensuring the organisation offers a safe space where staff can share mental health concerns, which includes the provision of a team of mental health "Allies" to support the workforce.
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- Date:
- 7 March 2019
- Type:
- News
Vodafone Group is to offer all staff who experience domestic abuse 10 days' additional paid "safe leave", after it found almost a third of workers in the UK had experienced domestic abuse in some form.
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- Date:
- 21 February 2019
- Type:
- News
More support and a "proactive" occupational health service is needed to help improve the mental health and wellbeing of the 1.4 million NHS staff who work in some of the "most challenging conditions imaginable", Health Education England (HEE) has urged.
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- Date:
- 19 February 2019
- Type:
- Commentary and analysis
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.
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- Date:
- 14 February 2019
- Type:
- News
Seventy-nine per cent of police officers say they have felt feelings of stress and anxiety in the past 12 months according to a Police Federation of England and Wales survey of its members.
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- Date:
- 8 February 2019
- Type:
- Audio and video
A round-up of XpertHR's latest research on employee wellbeing in the workplace, including the reasons employers introduce initiatives, programmes that have the most impact on employee wellbeing and challenges to introducing measures in this area.
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- Type:
- Good practice manual
Updated to include case studies about the mental health initiatives implemented by three organisations.
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- Date:
- 28 January 2019
- Type:
- News
Biological indications for chronic stress are 40% higher in women bringing up two children while working full-time compared with colleagues with no children.
