On National Stress Awareness Day, it’s an opportunity to think about the issue of work-related stress and its underlying causes, how we can help individual workers and businesses deal with it, and the collective benefit to society of getting this right.
Health and safety law is very clear. Those on zero-hours contracts are entitled to exactly the same legal protection as those on fixed hour contracts. So why is the reality so different?
A new Health and Safety Executive toolkit on dealing with workplace stress could prove useful, but it shouldn't be seen as the solution to preventing stress