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The job market for disabled people seems to have suddenly become a lot worse. There have been issues in the past, but at the moment it seems as if being disabled and finding employment is more of a challenge than it has ever been. Recent studies seem to bear out this...

Who has heard of the UK skills gap? A new study has shown that HR professionals who are following a traditional path of looking for high-quality talent at the top levels of organisations are quite possibly letting their organisations down. The push for high-quality...

There are ways to recruit, and then there are ways to recruit. Improve your disability awareness by challenging your unconscious bias towards people with disabilities. The Westminster Society is a service provider for people who have disabilities, so naturally it is...

A  new report by the CBI and Medicash has just been released. These two organisations have come together to look at the specific issue of health in the workplace, as well as other aspects centering around it, including absenteeism and presenteeism. The report is quite...

Stress is one of the biggest problems in modern society. It affects a huge number of people and it can affect them for the long-term. As an issue, it is well researched and documented, and is nothing new. Yet so many employers don’t know how to deal with it, and more...

If you're disabled and looking for a job, it can be a little intimidating. You may even feel that you’re not good enough to be able to get a job simply because you’re disabled. This is not true, and as long as you keep a few principles in mind you should find that you...

A new initiative in Wales has seen the issue of helping disabled people into work  has hit the headlines this week. Part of the Disability Confident campaign, which was launched in London last year by the Prime Minister, the new series of conferences are aimed at...

Some aspects of work can be truly terrifying for people. Perhaps one of the most worrying and anxiety inducing aspects of work is the return to work after leave. This return to work, however, can be even more intimidating if you’re returning after an episode of mental...

In the last two articles in this series of posts we have looked at stress in the workplace and how it can affect someone’s mental health. It’s important to realise just how important the issue is, especially for those who run small businesses. Any employer, in fact,...

In the last part of this series we looked at stress in the workplace and how it negatively affects employees. There are many issues around this, but the core concern is that the stress that the employee is feeling affects their working life. If that stress hinders...

Work is actually bad for your health. All joking aside, work can cause so many problems for the average employee that it can literally make them sick. Stress in the work place is incredibly difficult to manage for many people. If you’re an employer, and you have...

If you are an employer, it can sometimes be a little tricky to navigate the issue of disability in the workplace. You could be working with an employee and find that you don’t understand their disability, or even recognise it. Or you could have an employee who has...