Slides: Improving employer support for those working with cancer

This presentation by Dr Zofia Bajorek at the report launch, which was hosted in Westminster by iNHouse Communications, included:

Key Findings:

Policies and practices
Organisations are not doing enough to prepare or support employees living with cancer.

• Policies were very generic
• Limited consideration of the challenges that people working with cancer experience
• A tendency to focus on meeting legal obligations
• Absence of a strategic approach

Employee benefits
The results highlighted a range of employee benefits offered to employees working with cancer, the most common being:

• Flexible work
• Access to Employee Assistance Programmes
• Referrals to Occupational Health

Line manager capability
One of the main challenges reported by HR Managers was in relation to line managers:

• 58% reported concerns about management capability
• 57% reported limited training for managers about how to manage cancer at work
• 53% said that line managers had limited experience of managing cancer at work

Recommendations:
The presentation goes on to cover recommendations in terms of HR policies, line manager capability and employee benefits.