COVID-19 and mental health - Employment, UK - Chris Holme

We have obligations on employers to help people with mental health issues when we have a disability. We have the increasing mental health issues. We have the greater willingness to bring them forward. We have the greater, perhaps, expectation that employers will do something. And often, because of the special relationship that employers have with their employees, as compared to what is out there from the state provision, you end up with the employer actually being on the frontline of trying to help and deal with mental health issues, which creates difficulties for employers.