400 people are diagnosed with diabetes every day in the UK and it is costing the economy £6.9 billion a year in employee absence.
Following the EU's landmark ruling in 2014 that obesity (and indirectly diabetes) could be classified as a disability in the workplace, employers should be putting practical steps in place to ensure their duty of care to any employees with diabetes is met.
The latest report in QBE's Employee Wellbeing series, Diabetes and the workplace, gives employers insight into the condition, including its complications and symptoms, and provides suggestions on what they can do to help manage this condition in the workplace, both practically and legally.
