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CWU calls on government to take suicides seriously
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THE government must take workers’ suicides and mental health more seriously, CWU members said today.
Delegates at the union’s Bournemouth conference demanded that workplace suicide be recognised in legislation and that the government review the 1983 Mental Health Act by 2020.
Currently British employers do not have to report workplace suicides as the law excludes them. This is not the case in countries such as France.
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