A new obligation for employers to prevent harassment of their employees by third parties is inserted under the Bill into the Equality Act 2010. An employer will be considered to have permitted a third party to harass its employees where an employee has been subjected...
Of course, this kind of monitoring can not be done by machines in isolation: the point of telecare is that the machines are linked to humans at a distance, in call centres and, if they are alerted, paid domiciliary carers or (unpaid) family carers or friends going about their work or ...
For example, while shared parental leave (SPL) has been an option for UK parents for four years now, only one in five new dads said they knew about the right to take SPL according to asurvey PowWowNow conducted earlier this year. New parents need to know what they can ask for before t...
The average number of days granted for compassionate leave is five When asked “What is the maximum number of days’ paid compassionate leave employees at your organisation can take per year?”, themean responsewas 5.2 days. Among the top 10% of respondents in terms of leave offered, the av...
due to an increasingly strained public sector, people with a need for care, help or support in their home increasingly rely on informal carers; they are commonly spouses, partners, parents, adult children or siblings, but can also constitute friends and neighbours. They provide unpaid help, supp...
Yet, while integrated palliative care guidelines acknowledge the need to involve communities and unpaid caregivers, in practice most service models continue to be designed within the boundaries of the health system. Over the past decade in particular, palliative care service guidelines have increasingly ...
Interactional alliances can be key elements for the formation of an overall working alliance. Working alliances refer to situations where all parties express mutual agreement on goals and on the tasks for achieving those goals, and where there is an emotional bond involving trust; see [13,14,15...
Debate continues as to whether death at home should be an outcome measure [65]. While well-being may be greater at home, preference alone is not enough to ensure death at home and instead is influenced by other factors such as extended family support, availability of home care and affluence...