[IER] 1.8 million suffer work-related illness in Great Britain

[Ben Sellers]

News brief 02/12/22   View this email in your browser 





1.8 million suffer work-related illness in Great Britain


The estimated number of workers in Great Britain suffering a work-related illness is 1.8 million with stress, depression, and anxiety making up around half of cases, new figures show.
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has published its annual statistics on work-related ill health and workplace injuries.
The figures from Great Britain’s workplace regulator show there were an estimated 914,000 cases of work-related stress, depression, or anxiety in 2021/22.
An estimated 17 million working days were lost due to work-related stress, depression, or anxiety in 2021/22. This is over half of all working days lost due to work-related ill health.


Read more 


The RMT’s Eddie Dempsey takes apart idea that giving people pay rises causes further inflation

Eddie Dempsey has taken apart the idea that giving people inflation busting pay rises causes an inflationary spiral, calling the claim ‘nonsense’. 


Read more 


Women are three times more likely to work part-time and nearly four times more likely to work term-time only than men
TUC calls on ministers to quickly act on their promise to extend and strengthen flexible working rights


Read more 


More than 10,000 ambulance workers vote to strike across England and Wales
No one in the health service takes strike action lightly – today shows just how desperate they are, says GMB Union


Read more 


Durham Miners Gala 2022 – official film
After a three-year absence due to Covid 19, this sumer the Gala returned in style. It was the biggest Big Meeting in decades – and film crews were there to capture it all.


Read more & watch the film 



IER blog series: Labour, Strategy, and Legal Mobilisation
Check out our new blog series, with the aim of shedding light on the ways that law is mobilised at work, the role of courts and their capacity to redress workplace grievances, and the broader role of law in industrial relations.


Read the series 


Last reminder: ‘From Pentonville to P&O: Union Rights & Tory Wrongs’
Join us at this CTUF / IER event on December 3rd to discuss the latest raft of anti-union legislation and how the trade union movement can respond.


More details & sign up here 



Facebook 




Twitter 




Website 







Copyright © 2022 Institute of Employment Rights, All rights reserved.
You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website or signed up at an IER event.

Our mailing address is:
Institute of Employment Rights
4th Floor Jack Jones House
1 Islington
Liverpool, Merseyside L3 8EG 
United Kingdom

Add us to your address book

To unsubscribe, follow the instructions at the bottom of this email or in the .txt document attached. If you cannot find the instructions, please contact james at ier.org.uk








-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mailman.gn.apc.org/pipermail/ier-elist/attachments/20221202/736d1817/attachment-0001.html>