Wellbeing & Mental Health

Employers should be as clear as possible with employees about sick pay and health insurance benefits from day one, according to employment lawyers. Melanie Stancliffe, partner at law firm Cripps Pemberton Greenish,...

There is a bubble waiting to burst for employers in the form of increased long-term absence rates due to growing numbers of employees not accessing treatments during the pandemic. Steve Herbert, head...

While firms increasingly understand the importance of providing health and protection benefits to staff in these times, the severe economic downturn caused by the pandemic has meant many are choosing to put...

Lower attrition and absence rates and terrific individual performances are just some of the benefits of embracing flexible working, according to LifeSearch's head of people and culture. Yesterday, Health & Protection revealed...

Due to the way we deal with mental health in the west, most companies think they have ticked the box with an employee assistance programme (EAP), training staff as mental health first...

Vocational rehabilitation firm Working to Wellbeing is seeking to partner with intermediaries as it rolls out its personalised long Covid work support service to businesses. The service, available on a pay as...

Protection advice firm LifeSearch has joined 26 financial services firms in signing up to a new Association of British Insurers’ (ABI) charter aimed at increasing flexible working to improve diversity and equality...

Workers with post Covid syndrome want their employers to adopt a flexible, collaborative approach to easing them back into work. This is according to Dr Jenny Lunt, lecturer in health psychology and...

Advisers and brokers still have time to submit their entries for the UK Health & Protection Awards. The awards feature the best of the advisers, brokers, insurers and providers operating in the...

Royal London paid out a record £591m in protection claims last year with £13m paid to families who had experienced a death due to Covid-19. The mutual insurer revealed it paid 99.6%...