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  • Among non-manual staff stress has overtaken acute medical conditions.

    Stress now commonest cause of long-term sick leave – report 2011

  • By this pay was linked to the levels of non-manual public sector pay.

    Archive 2008-01-20 2008

  • By this pay was linked to the levels of non-manual public sector pay.

    A Random Bad Idea 2008

  • There's a bias against folks going into a chair, especially a non-manual chair, but it's the same kind of thinking that wants to limit narcotic pain medications for cancer patients: Quality of life trumps moral values or outside agendas.

    LIFE IN A WHEELCHAIR Maggie Jochild 2007

  • Stress is the second most common reason for sickness absence in non-manual employment, behind minor ailments.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Thatsnews 2008

  • In particular, the growth in service industries have made working from home a more accepted practice among non-manual workers, especially in areas such as consultancy, professional support, and other business-related services.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Dylan Jones-Evans 2008

  • With one and a half million unemployed, perhaps the same again on nebulous "training schemes", and about three million on incapacity benefit - many of whom would, if asked, be fit for non-manual work - the idea that we have so small a pool of labour here that we must borrow from abroad is simply preposterous.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2008

  • Stress is the second most common reason for sickness absence in non-manual employment, behind minor ailments.

    GP Advice Line reduces Staff Absence Thatsnews 2008

  • With one and a half million unemployed, perhaps the same again on nebulous "training schemes", and about three million on incapacity benefit - many of whom would, if asked, be fit for non-manual work - the idea that we have so small a pool of labour here that we must borrow from abroad is simply preposterous.

    By design, not by accident 2008

  • With one and a half million unemployed, perhaps the same again on nebulous "training schemes", and about three million on incapacity benefit - many of whom would, if asked, be fit for non-manual work - the idea that we have so small a pool of labour here that we must borrow from abroad is simply preposterous...

    Daimnation!: This might well be Canada 2008

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