CMI highlights impact of recession on employee health
by Gill Montia
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New research from the Chartered Management Institute paints a bleak picture of the impact of the recession on employee health in UK workplaces. Compared with 2007, managers today are: working longer hours due to larger workloads; increasingly suffering from ill health including stress and depression; are more likely to come to work despite being sick. [...]
Long-term sickness rates alarm manufacturers
by Gill Montia
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New research from the UK manufacturers’ organisation, EEF, indicates that the downward trend in sickness absence rates in the sector has plateaued. According to the latest EEF/Westfield Health report, the overall rate among manufacturers’ employees remained unchanged in 2011 compared with 2010, at 2.2%, and the average number of working days lost to absence held [...]
Psychiatric conditions dominate Aviva’s IP claims
by Gill Montia
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Aviva’s income protection (IP) cover provided payments totalling over £29.5 million in 2011, with psychiatric conditions topping the list of claims by volume. More than one in four IP claims (28%) involved psychiatric conditions – moderate depression was the most common (28%), followed by anxiety (15%) and stress (12%). Orthopaedic conditions took second place (21%) [...]
