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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
EAPA is seeking nominations for positions on the EAPA Board of Directors for the 2016-18 term of service. EAPA members will be electing a new President Elect, a Secretary-Treasurer, and seven At Large Directors (four U.S. based, three non-U.S. based). At least one At Large Director residing in the U.S. must be a member of a labor union and work in a labor employee assistance program. The Nomination Period will begin on Thursday, May 5, and remain open through Aug. 2. Online voting will take place from Aug. 25 - Sept. 23. (You will need your EAPA member login to access this content. If you have not yet created an EAPA member website account, please visit: https://www.eapassn.org/Registration.)
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HR
Employee assistance programs are now widespread in the U.K., with nearly half the U.K. working population having access to one. The number of programs on offer has tripled since 2005, according to 2013 research from the UK Employee Assistance Professionals Association. EAPs are becoming a natural choice for employers who want to support employee health and well-being.
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Employee Assistance Professionals Association
Work Exchange Volunteers are an essential ingredient in the success of EAPA's Annual World EAP Conference. This year, at the Sheraton Grand Chicago in Chicago, they will assist with activities beginning with pre-conference preparations on Saturday, Oct. 29 through Thursday, Nov. 3 Why volunteer? You meet and interact with employee assistance professionals from around the world! In return for contributing to the success of the conference, you receive a free full registration and can attend sessions and events as time and volunteer responsibilities permit! Get your "backstage pass" to the 2016 World EAP Conference and be a key part of the largest EAP educational and networking event in the world.
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Fortune
College graduation is just around the corner, and many companies are gearing up to hire a fresh crop of future leaders in the coming months.
But when executives take a close look at the youngest employees in the workforce, many are taken aback by the high rates of anxiety, depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and other behavioral and mood disorders in this cohort, especially when compared with the members of previous generations.
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PLANSPONSOR
Nearly four in five employers (78 percent) predict moderate to significant changes in their health plan designs and vendor strategies over the next four years, according to Willis Towers Watson's 2016 Emerging Trends in Health Care Survey. These changes are intended to manage healthcare costs and improve plans' value. Once they are put into place, employers anticipate cost increases in 2016 to be around 4 percent (for the second consecutive year), the smallest increase in 15 years but more than twice the Consumer Price Index.
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The Washington Post
Petula Dvorak's April 26 Metro column, "Was firefighter a victim of co-workers' bullying?," hit at the heart of a chronic workplace condition: the inability of the human resources field to deal with harassment in the digital age. Dvorak wrote, "This brand of workplace harassment operates outside the . . . surveys, workshops and seminars that company lawyers make everyone take . . . to thwart lawsuits in case a caveman boss demands sex for a promotion." Indeed, official resources and legal direction are lacking. The Society for Human Resource Management should be at the cutting edge of conversations about preventing cyberbullying by colleagues. Yet, its website reveals training materials from 2008 that do not address online harassment issues.
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TestCountry.com
Drug abuse has become a rampant problem in society. In the workplace, it can become an even bigger problem as it can have a huge impact on any business. In this article, we will look at the prevalence and effect of drug abuse in the workplace.
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Occupational Health & Safety
Companies with emergency response plans know the importance of having that plan in the event of an emergency. Considerable time and effort went into thoughtfully assessing the types of disasters that could possibly occur and putting different response scenarios on paper. Your safety team conducted a review of your plan, and with a few tweaks, it worked. You think you're ready, but are you? How resilient will your employees be in the aftermath of a disaster? Does your plan include offering psychological first aid to support your employees? If so, have you designated a provider to offer that?
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SHRM
When employees are stressed financially, their health and productivity can both suffer. Fortunately, organizations can ease some of that stress by helping employees manage their personal finances and prepare for retirement.
Two-thirds of North American employers offer their workers financial education, according to a new report from the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans in Brookfield, Wisconsin.
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