HSE says NHS trust is ‘failing’ on stress

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust were issued with an Improvement Notice by the Health and Safety Executive in October, 2008, for “failing to identify the potential risks to the health and safety of its employees from exposure to work-related stress”. The Trust were given until 2 February to complete a stress risk assessment, and current [...]

Employees lose confidence

Employee’s confidence in their job security and senior management have taken a downturn in the past three months. Data published by ETS from an ongoing survey of 150,000 workers has shown a significant difference in current figures compared with the previous quarter figures for 2008.

1 in 3 people now fear they may lose their jobs [...]

Council leader sued over non-disclosure of depression

This week, proceedings were started in the High Court in London by Cheltenham Borough Council against its former Chief Executive, Christine Laird, over the alleged non-disclosure of mental health issues.

Mrs Laird successfully applied for the post of Chief Executive in Spring 2002, but after a series of complaints by Mrs Laird against colleagues, and against [...]

Perception of HR needs some work

Three quarters of line managers believe their HR function adds no value to their organisation, according to research by the Roffey Park Institute, a leading researcher in management development.

In their Management Agenda 2009, they have reported that from over one thousand managers surveyed, only 1 in 10 believe that HR was customer focused. Whilst this [...]

Survey claims 92% of workers experience workplace stress

A new poll carried out by Onepoll on behalf of SkillSoft claims that 92% of employees are experiencing stress in the workplace, and almost 1 in 3 fear redundancy this year.

The poll itself was carried out in November 2008, and involved 3000 workers in 14 different business sectors, however, the respondents were self selecting, so [...]