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In a recent development, Royal Mail has received the Healthy Workplace Award for its Health & Wellbeing programme. This award is presented by the Department of Health in collaboration with the Health and Safety Executive.

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Royal Mail has been found to have reduced the sickness leaves taken by its employees by around 7% as a result of its sickness reduction programme and has thus managed savings to the tune of £15 million.

The sickness reduction programme addresses issues related to health, wellbeing as well as nutritional advice, by including a secret helpline, an online screening facility, comprehensive health screening and also face to face counselling. The scheme has been catering to more than 15,000 employees along with their families. Workplace Law Training run highly regarded CIPD Certificate in Personnel Practice courses that could be just the ticket for you in implementing a performance review processes to boost team performance.

One of judges for the award, Dr Will Cavendish, Director of Health and Wellbeing at the Department of Health, congratulated Royal Mail for their excellence in ensuring the health care of their employees and said that their scheme is both innovative and replicable. Further, he felt that it showed leadership and dedication on part of the company towards the health of its employees. The judges were deeply impressed with the scope and significance of the programme, especially in the midst of a phase of restructuring in most other companies.

Further, the head of corporate responsibility and engagement services at Royal Mail, Adam Bowles, said that the company places a great stress on the well being of its employees, which is clearly reflected in the award. He also said that the company developed the programme in collaboration with Atos Healthcare, for benefiting all of its employees which in turn would ensure that the company works efficiently.

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Thanks to the credit crunch ski reservations decreased this winter.

This is even with good early sales along with excellent skiing.

This reduction in holidaymakers follows 6 seasons of successive growth in the ski industry, and the number of skiers dropped from one million two winters ago to 950000 last ski season.

Perhaps due to holiday makers giving their annual snowboarding holiday a miss, whilst other holiday makers who would generally take two or more skiing holidays, only had one.

Sales for the independent travel sector fell by 15% and some cheap airlines reducing the amount of airplanes to certain cities.

Tour operators saw their sales going down by a similar 15%.

Still, the top six tour operators share remained at 72% and the Alps in France continued to remain the top skiing destination with about 37% of skiing holidays.

This meant that several major operators slashed the amount of chalets they operate this coming season.

Catered ski chalets will see a reduction in numbers due to the fact that a catered ski chalet costs more in terms of chalet hosts and rental if it is not sold.

Therefore it’s unlikely we will witness the deals on last minute ski holidays which were available last winter.

Although costs are probably going to to augment, prices are unlikely to rise substantially.

The 2009/10 winter presents grievous problems for an industry that is touched by by the consequences of the down turn, weakness of the pound against the euro, high costs of fuel and high fixed operating costs for ski businesses.

Next year snowboarders will become increasingly cost aware, which will add to a reversal of recent trends which saw a increase in independent travel.

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