{"id":74685,"date":"2020-04-09T08:23:12","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T07:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=74685"},"modified":"2020-04-09T08:23:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T07:23:12","slug":"support-furloughed-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/support-furloughed-workers\/74685\/","title":{"rendered":"BESA offers support meetings for furloughed workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebesa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Building Engineering Services Association<\/a> (BESA) has set up a Facebook support page for furloughed workers in the building services sector<\/h2>\n<p>It will offer guidance and support through Facebook Lives, posts and discussions on topics including personal finance, mental health and coping with practical day to day issues.<\/p>\n<p>Helen Yeulet, BESA&#8217;s director of training, who is on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/furloughed-workers\/73922\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">furlough<\/a> herself, has volunteered to run the page. The support group would aim to have a weekly meeting but would be available as a continuous community where individuals could keep their own conversations going.<\/p>\n<p>She said: \u201cWhile BESA represents employers who are going through very tough times right now, we felt it was important that staff members also had somewhere they could turn to for support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurlough can be a lonely experience and this support page is a place where people can touch base with colleagues and others across the sector who are going through the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Mental health<\/h3>\n<p>Emily Pearson, managing director of the mental health in the workplace organisation Our Minds Work, said: \u201cWe need to treat <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/health-safety-news\/mental-health-lockdown\/74422\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mental health<\/a> with the same seriousness as physical health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She told the Association\u00a0that it was important for people\u00a0working from home, or in more isolation than usual, to remain in regular contact with work colleagues and to closely monitor changes to their mental well-being.<\/p>\n<p>BESA\u2019s chief executive, David Frise, said:\u00a0\u201cThe industry has made major progress on the physical safety of its workforce, but continues to struggle with mental health issues, which are just as important.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmployers must be mindful of the impact uncertainty and isolation can have on their staff who will also be worrying about their job security.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are also urging banks to be mindful of the particular pressure on small business owners applying for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/financial-uncertainty-new-workers\/74549\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">financial support<\/a> through the government\u2019s emergency schemes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The BESA Facebook support page can be found\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BESA-110301340633599\/?modal=admin_todo_tour\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has set up a Facebook support page for furloughed workers in the building services sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[712,54592,276,661,923,592,934],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-74685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hr-skills-news","7":"tag-besa","8":"tag-coronavirus","9":"tag-government","10":"tag-hr","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-skills","13":"tag-wellbeing"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>BESA offers support meetings for furloughed workers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has set up a Facebook support page for furloughed workers in the building services sector\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/support-furloughed-workers\/74685\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BESA offers support meetings for furloughed workers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) has set up a Facebook support page for furloughed workers in the building services sector\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/hr-skills-news\/support-furloughed-workers\/74685\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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