Union urges employers to offer improved health assistance
Mon 28 Apr 2008
28/04/2008
A leading workers union has issued guidance to help businesses improve occupational health assistance for its employees.
The TUC has issued a new occupational health guide for union safety reps, aimed at providing help for around two million workers whose jobs affect their wellbeing.
Brendan Barber, the general secretary of the TUC, claimed that the new publication, Occupational Health: Dealing with the Issues, would help employers provide better support for its workers.
"Using this workbook, union reps can learn about all the aspects of occupational health," he said.
"Then they can use it to encourage their employers to do much more to make employees feel they are getting a decent level of support from work when they are ill and again when they are on the road towards a full recovery," Mr Barber added.
According to the TUC, 175 million working days were lost due to health related absence from work in 2006.
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