Nathan Hill: Tax laws are limiting the reach of EAP

'Providing broader levels of mental health support is integral to creating a healthier society'

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‘The government must ease tax rules and widen support for workers through EAP to avoid a mental health crisis’

Awareness and understanding of mental health issues might have been on the rise before the start of the pandemic, but the outbreak of Covid-19 and the lack of any certainty about whatever the "new normal" will look like and when we will get there has and will continue to accelerate this trend. After our fundamental way of life was transformed virtually overnight back in March, we now face winter with its dark mornings and evenings and ‘lockdown 2.0' is just about finishing for most, bringing with it a further period of social isolation and economic uncertainty. This has created yet anoth...

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