Employment Law News for 'Health & Safety'

The Department for Work & Pensions has published “Statement of Fitness for Work, A guide for employers“. Under the new “Fit Note” scheme, there will still be an option for doctors to advise that your employee is “not fit for work” – just like the current sick note scheme. However, from 6 April, doctors will [...]

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Filed under: General News, Health & Safety by Employment Law Clinic

Post created on: February 22nd, 2010

A review published this week by the Cochrane Collaboration has suggested that flexible working will benefit not only family life but health too. Flexible working conditions and their effects on employee health and wellbeing included ten studies involving a total of 16,603 people which focused on various different forms of flexible working. Self-scheduling of working [...]

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Filed under: Flexible Working, Health & Safety by Employment Law Clinic

Post created on: February 19th, 2010