Good workplace practices can spot and resolve mental health issues

How confident are you that your managers support effectively their staff with mental health difficulties such as stress? Have you trained managers to understand how to deal with mental health problems and how to spot issues? Is there a fear of doing or saying the wrong thing? Did you know that a new report provides examples of how to get it right?

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Advancing equality awards

Did you know that the Equality Challenge Unit (ECU) sponsored equality awards in March? The University of Essex won first place for developing an Essex LGBT alliance. Runner up, the University of Birmingham, advanced equality within employment practice. You may gain some tips from these case studies on how to advance equality in your organisation.

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Shared parental leave changes come into effect next month. Are you ready?

New rights for shared parental leave become available to employees expecting a child on or after 5 April 2015. What steps have you taken? Have you updated or developed a policy, for example?

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Negative attitudes to older people?

What’s the attitude of your staff to employing or managing older people? Have you seen recent government guidance that includes an employer toolkit to help employers better manage their workforce?

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Talent not tokenism: Achieving the benefits of Equality and Diversity in the workforce

Our working environments are more diverse than ever before and that brings many tangible benefits. But how do you genuinely advance equality and tackle issues and tensions in the workforce, such as tensions between sexual orientation and faith? How do you deal with the ‘fear factor’ and how do you create an environment where staff feel confident to talk about E&D issues?

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