Employers must get to grips with mental health in the workplace with politicians focusing on the issue and recent case law showing that employers are failing to understand their responsibilities. The term “mental health” itself is not a legal definition but refers to a continuum that includes emotional well-being, mental health conditions and mental illnesses. Mental health, like physical health, can fluctuate but everyone’s experience of mental health is different and unique to them. It would now seem that as a society we recognise the need to take more proactive steps to invest in addressing and improving mental health and the benefits of doing so. In some cases, employers will be legally obliged to take certain steps if the legal definition of disability is met, as considered further below. It is worth pausing to reflect on some of the headline statistics on mental health in the workplace.
Even this small selection of statistics is pretty harrowing and a reflection of the work to be done as a society and in business circles in promoting mental well-being. This issue is now gaining more political attention. Practical steps What are the practical steps that employers can take to promote mental well-being? A few examples are set out below:
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