Employee assistance programmes

New and updated

• 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 documents

  Policy setting out employee assistance programme

  Updated to flag up that HR can use this policy to encourage staff to make use of the employer’s employee assistance programme during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

• 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 analysis

  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:

  Employment glossary

  Employee assistance programme

  Definition from the XpertHR glossary.

• Type:

  Tasks

  Introduce, manage and review an employee assistance programme

• Date:

  1 June 2007

  Type:

  Law reports

  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?