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  • We need to make sure employee health and wellbeing remains a business priority

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff, Senior Policy Advisor at the CIPD outlines how you can help us explore the state of employee wellbeing in the UK after an unprecedented year.We need your help! Help us ensure employee health and wellbeing remains a bu...
    • 8 Dec 2020
  • We all need to unite against bullying

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    By Rachel Suff, Senior Policy Advisor at the CIPDHow organisations can prevent bullying and negative conflict occurring at work, and how to resolve it when it does.The theme of this year’s Anti-...
    • 16 Nov 2020
  • Pandemic pressures increase risk of stress

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    Stress Awareness Week marks an opportunity to take stock of the added pressures many are facing due to COVID-19, and what we can do to manage them. CIPD Policy Adviser, Rachel Suff explores this topic.The COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated the wh...
    • 2 Nov 2020
  • Redundancy: Compliance and compassion should go hand in hand

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    With the Government’s Furlough scheme ending this month, fear about large-scale job losses loom large. A third (33%) of employers intended to make redundancies over the last financial quarter, a...
    • 9 Oct 2020
  • Employers’ concern for people’s mental health during COVID-19 soars

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    Almost nine in ten (88%) employers are concerned about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic could have on employees’ mental health, according to a survey of over 1,000 employers carried out in April by YouGov on behalf of the CIPD. A quarter (25%) ...
    • 18 May 2020
  • People’s physical and mental health needs protecting during COVID-19 pandemic

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    It’s still hard to absorb the exceptional situation that the country – indeed the world – is facing in the context of COVID-19. As the infection and death rate from the pandemic continues its sharp upwards trajectory in the UK,...
    • 3 Apr 2020
  • Conflict at work – make managers part of the solution, not the problem

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    Most of us spend a large portion of our waking hours at work, and so the quality of the working environment has a significant impact on our well-being. A supportive culture with positive relationships can greatly enhance our experience of work; confl...
    • 21 Jan 2020
  • Sign up here for the CIPD/Simplyhealth Health and well-being survey

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    The CIPD annual Health and Well-being at Work survey, in partnership with Simplyhealth, is now open! We are grateful to every individual who takes the time to complete this short online survey and contributes to our work on this important agenda. You...
    • 11 Nov 2019
  • World Menopause Day: we need to maintain momentum

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    By Rachel Suff and Claire McCartney, advisers at the CIPD The menopause is an urgent workplace issue that all employers should be taking seriously. Half the workforce is female, which means half the workforce will go through the menopause at som...
    • 18 Oct 2019
  • World Mental Health Day 2019: help prevent suicide at work

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    The focus of this year’s World Mental Health Day is on suicide prevention. Suicide can be an uncomfortable issue to address – but it is a vital that we raise awareness about it in the workplace. According to the World Health Organization,...
    • 8 Oct 2019
  • Are we making headway on mental health?

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    How effective are organisations in creating mentally healthy workplaces for people? Mental health awareness week is an ideal time to stand back and take the temperature. How much progress has been made, and where do we need to focus attention to impr...
    • 13 May 2019
  • How can we tackle work-related stress?

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    National Stress Awareness Month is a good opportunity for organisations and people professionals to stand back and think about what action could make the most difference to reducing people’s stress at work. The increasing prevalence of work-rel...
    • 2 Apr 2019
  • Check out Mind’s guide to implementing the mental health core standards

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    Employers have made a lot of progress over the past few years in supporting people’s mental health. But the important Stevenson-Farmer ‘Thriving at Work’ review of mental health and employers published in autumn 2017 still showed &l...
    • 19 Mar 2019
  • Tell us about your experience of mental health at work

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    We still have a long way to go before most people can talk about mental health in the same way as physical health issues.  So it’s really important that we learn from people’s experiences of mental health at work, so that we can buil...
    • 5 Jul 2018
  • Mental health at work: can you help?

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    The CIPD is a partner of the Royal Foundation’s Heads Together campaign which brings together The Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, in partnership with eight inspiring charities ...
    • 26 Jun 2018
  • Bullying and sexual harassment: can mediation help?

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    Harassment and bullying remain significant workplace issues despite increasing awareness of the problem. Research has shown that over half of women have experienced sexual harassment at work, rising to two-thirds of women age 18-24 years old. Se...
    • 5 Jun 2018
  • Take part in the National Mental Health at Work Survey 2018

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    There isn’t a more important issue in today’s workplace than people’s health and well-being, and we’re seeing that many of the main risks to our health are now psychological. Mental ill-health is one of the biggest public heal...
    • 15 May 2018
  • Celebrate Carers Rights Day by raising awareness now

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    Carers Rights Day on 24 November is an important opportunity to raise awareness to recognise and support the role of carers in UK workplaces. Often, caring is a hidden responsibility but the latest State of Caring report by Carers UK estimates that 3...
    • 20 Nov 2017
  • Join the world in marking 10th October for mental health

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    World Mental Health Day is observed on 10 October every year, providing an opportunity ‘for all stakeholders working on mental health issues to talk about their work, and what more needs to be done to make mental health care a reality for peopl...
    • 9 Oct 2017
  • Small is beautiful – well-being in small firms

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    The CIPD is pleased to support the new 'Wellbeing in Small Business' campaign, just launched by the Federation of Small Business (FSB). It includes a Wellbeing in Small Business hub where you can find useful information and practical adv...
    • 18 Sep 2017
  • Is the fit note fit for purpose?

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    When the ‘Fit note’ replaced the ‘sick note’ in 2010, it was hoped that it would herald a new way for employers to manage sickness absence. Instead of the binary approach of being either fit or unfit for work, it introduced a ...
    • 1 Sep 2017
  • Let’s put our Heads Together to create mentally healthy workplaces

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    For the past few months, the CIPD has been actively supporting the Royal Foundation’s Heads Together campaign with mental health charity Mind to end stigma around mental health. The campaign ‘aims to change the national conversation on me...
    • 7 Aug 2017
  • Supreme Court rules that ET fees prevent access to justice

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    The Supreme Court has unanimously allowed Unison’s appeal that the UK’s fee system for individuals enforcing their employment rights via employment tribunals is unlawful. The CIPD welcomes this ruling and has consistently called for a ful...
    • 26 Jul 2017
  • Health and well-being has never been more important: join the CIPD London Well-being Conference

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    The political and economic events – including Brexit, national elections and terrorist attacks - currently taking place on a domestic and global scale pose a challenging environment for organisations and individuals. Even if someone is not dire...
    • 7 Jun 2017
  • Sign up for a free Stress Summit pass

    Rachel Suff
    Rachel Suff
    Workplace stress is growing exponentially, with over 11 million days lost to anxiety last year in the UK, and consequent impacts on wellbeing and productivity…and this may be the tip of the iceberg when we also include presenteeism and unrepor...
    • 15 May 2017
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