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Workplace Mental Health Law Comparative Perspectives.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Milton :
Taylor & Francis Group,
2020.
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| Colección: | Routledge Research in Health Law Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- Reference
- 1. Issues in workplace mental health law
- What sort of legislation is effective, practical, and reasonable?
- Notes
- References
- 2. The legal situation in Japan
- Notes
- Reference
- 3. A comparative study of mental health law
- United Kingdom: Primary prevention through intervention by administrative authorities in the form of Management Standards, an employer's responsibility to address psychosocial risks based on civil jurisprudence, and employment equality and legislation to promote the employment of the disabled5
- Background
- Characteristics
- Effectiveness
- Recently launched efforts
- Denmark: Policies for active management of psychosocial risks based on an instrument, policies to manage a return to work with local governments at their core, and generous income security24
- Background
- Characteristics
- Primary prevention approaches based on the Working Environment Act27
- Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ)32
- Tertiary prevention based on the Sickness Benefits Act
- Support for a return to work
- The system of workers' compensation
- Enactment of legislation to prevent discrimination against the disabled
- Other approaches: Incentives to implement measures to promote mental health41
- Civil statutes
- Effectiveness
- Recently launched efforts
- The Netherlands: Policies for management of psychosocial risks involving occupational physicians and the Occupational Health and Safety Service, generous job security, and generous support from the Employee Insurance Agency to help individuals who have taken a leave of absence return to work44
- Background
- Characteristics
- Approaches related to primary and secondary prevention
- Tertiary prevention
- a) An employer's duties
- b) An employee's duties
- Regulations related to all forms of prevention, from primary to tertiary
- Legislation prohibiting discrimination50
- Act on compensation for damages
- Effectiveness
- Recently launched efforts
- Germany: A partial effort at primary prevention of psychosocial risks via administrative authorities but substantial legal protections in the workplace (e.g. regulations on working hours and termination) and occupational integration management to help individuals who have taken a leave of absence return to and remain at work53
- Background
- Characteristics
- Approaches related to primary prevention
- Approaches related to secondary and tertiary prevention
- Effectiveness
- Recently launched efforts