EU STRESS
October 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLTHE EUROPEAN Agency for Safety and Health at Work has launched a package of services designed to help businesses and other organisations reduce the exposure of their staff to workplace stress, a problem it says affects 28 per cent of employees in the European Union (EU). The agency claims that up to 40 EU million workers suffer from this problem, costing Member States and businesses up to Euro 20 billion a year in lost work potential, sick pay and compensation payments.The initiative has been developed to mark the EU's first anti-stress week; it ...
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