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Volunteering Can Combat Loneliness and Boost Your Mental Health—Just Consider These 5 Things Before You Start

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How volunteering can help mental health Research shows that volunteering helps mental health by reducing stress and increasing positive thoughts. When the organization’s executive director left, Agan had to lead a 13-person search committee for the new executive director. Last year, when the U.S. She eventually resigned.

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Work-Life Balance Revolution? Sanders Introduces 32-Hour Week Legislation

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without any reduction in pay. As the chairman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee , Sanders asserts that this change is essential to ensure that U.S. It is time to reduce the stress level in our country and allow Americans to enjoy a better quality of life.

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Sick pay reform should encourage people back into work, government claims

Workplace Insight

A parliamentary committee of MPs has called for a ‘long-overdue’ boost to statutory sick pay (SSP), emphasising the need to strike a delicate balance between workers’ wellbeing and employers’ financial constraints. The cross-party committee contends that all workers, regardless of income, should be eligible for SSP.

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Members of European Parliament back charter to ‘revolutionise workplace wellbeing’

Workplace Insight

Pîslaru, Chair of the European Parliament Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. It is our moment to look into innovative solutions that protect the mental health and wellbeing of current and future generations of workers.”

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Hefty fine for Amazon has implications for employee surveillance policy

Workplace Insight

The regulator was particularly concerned with employee surveillance practices that it deemed to be at odds with workers’ rights in relation to health and safety, as well as regarding the protection of their personal and private lives.

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Take the “Jingle” out of Holiday Stress

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Wednesday, December 9, 2009 Take the “Jingle&# out of Holiday Stress Are you planning the holiday party in your office? Or are you stressed just thinking about the holidays? Form a committee, then within the committee form subcommittees for activities throughout the event. Don’t go it alone.

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Stress Epidemic--30 Ways to Chill Out!

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Almost every magazine I pick up has an article on reducing stress, and the “YOU” docs (Oz and Roizen) list stress as the #4 health risk factor on their list of the top 4. I’ve spent the better part of my adult life learning techniques to manage my own stress. First a word in defense of stress: not all stress is bad!

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