Employee Assistance Programmes

The Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) has released a guide tackling mental illness issues in the workplace.

Financial directors' hold "ridiculous" expectations for the return on investment of their healthcare benefits and sickness absence spend, the Work Foundation has said.

Employing wellbeing strategies in the workplace will backfire if the workforce believe the aim is to get more work out of them Simplyhealth has said.

More than a quarter of a million people are claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) because of mental and behavioural disorders, research has revealed.

Cigna is set to extend its coverage of mental health conditions across the entire product range.

Employers are increasingly looking for a employee benefits provider offering an easy to use service for employees.

The number of staff taking time off due to job stress has increased by 25% and total time off due to psychological problems by more than a third, research has found.

Ellipse has entered the group income protection (GIP) market with the launch of its InteractPlus product which includes an integrated absence management system.

Workplace stress has reached a four-year high with British workers being the most stressed compared to colleagues in some of the world's biggest economies, a new report has found.

Businesses risk alienating their staff by not offering a compassionate approach to absence management, new research has found.