Employee assistance programmes

New and updated

• Date:

  7 July 2022

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2022: Health and wellbeing benefits

  Benefits that support the health and wellbeing of employees continue to be some of the most popular offerings among our survey respondents.

• Date:

  22 July 2021

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2021: Health and wellbeing benefits

  Employee health and wellbeing has been at the forefront of every employer's mind over the past year. We look at how this focus has changed the provision of health-related benefits.

• Date:

  30 July 2020

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2020: Health benefits

  XpertHR's latest analysis finds that health and wellbeing remain key elements in many organisations' benefits packages.

• Type:

  Policies and procedures

  Employee assistance programme policy

  A model policy to explain an employee assistance programme which deals with objectives, organisational commitment, aims, eligibility, agreement, accessing the service, management information, confidentiality, publicity, evaluation and relationship with other policies.

• Date:

  24 June 2019

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR benefits and allowances survey 2019: Health benefits

  Health and wellbeing continue to feature prominently in employers' benefits packages, as our survey shows.

• Date:

  19 February 2019

  Type:

  Commentary and insights

  Trauma and stress: Supporting workers' families

  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.

• Type:

  Tasks

  Introduce, manage and review an employee assistance programme

• Date:

  1 June 2007

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Counselling services not a panacea for dealing with stress at work

  Where an employee is experiencing stress related to excessive workloads, the presence of a workplace counselling service will not automatically serve to discharge the employer's duty of care in stress claims.

• Type:

  FAQs

  What are employee assistance programmes and how do they work?