{"id":7807,"date":"2020-01-28T09:21:28","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T06:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=7807"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:49","slug":"mental-illness-discrimination-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2020\/01\/28\/mental-illness-discrimination-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Mental Illness Discrimination At Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Oscar Auma <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unemployment is a recognised risk factor for mental health problems, while returning to, or getting work is protective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A negative working environment may lead to physical and mental health problems, harmful use of substances or alcohol, absenteeism and lost productivity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Workplaces that promote mental health and support people with mental disorders are more likely to reduce absenteeism, increase productivity and benefit from associated economic gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, employers are becoming more aware of the value of having \u2018mental health first aiders\u2019 at the workplace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, information about mental health is not readily available hence in many instances, employers and colleagues may have no idea what is wrong while an employer suffers in silence. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/lifestyle\/pfinance\/Mental-illness-discrimination-at-work\/4258410-5433838-jxpponz\/index.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oscar Auma Unemployment is a recognised risk factor for mental health problems, while returning to, or getting work is protective. A negative working environment may lead to physical and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}