Submitted on Thursday 12th May 2022
Rejected on Monday 16th May 2022
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: no-action (see below for details)
Introduce "Management of Mental Health and Wellbeing at Work Regulations"
The duty on employers to manage employee mental health and wellbeing at work falls under the Health and Safety at Work Act. Introduce secondary supporting regulation and detailed guidance that sets out the framework, expectation and detail of how this is best achieved.
This will benefit employees with mentally safer workplaces and employers from reduced sickness absence and increased productivity. In addition this costs the economy billions each year. This would offset any cost of implementation. In 2020/21 stress, depression or anxiety accounted for 50% of all work-related ill health cases (source: Health and Safety Executive). Evidenced by the prevalence of these issues, there must be improvement in the legal framework and support available to employers.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We understand that you want to see changes to requirements regarding the management of mental health and wellbeing in the workplace, but it's not clear what new regulatory requirements you want to be introduced.
The Health and Safety Executive has published advice for line managers to help them support their employees with mental health conditions, which you can view here: www.hse.gov.uk/stress/mental-health-line-managers.htm
In 2017, the government commissioned an independent review of the role employers can play to better support individuals with mental health conditions in the workplace, and the ‘Thriving at Work’ report set out a framework of actions – called ‘Core Standards’ – that the reviewers recommend employers of all sizes can and should put in place. You can read this here: www.mentalhealthatwork.org.uk/resource/thriving-at-work-the-stevenson-farmer-review-of-mental-health-and-employers/?read=more
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