Companies that provide employees with occupational health benefits could be handed tax breaks under plans being considered by ministers to get thousands of Britons back to work.
Rishi Sunak is determined to boost the economy by bringing back some of the 630,000 people estimated to have left the workforce since 2019.
Days after entering office, he tasked one of his closest allies, Mel Stride, the work and pensions secretary, with conducting a review into why these people dropped out.
One early conclusion from Stride’s review is that companies that provide employees with extensive occupational health support have better retention rates because they lose fewer staff to ill health or related problems.
The Department for Work and Pensions has therefore proposed the Treasury find ways
