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Mental Health Issues In the Workplace

By Sarah Wimberly
November 30, 2015

The challenges inherent in managing employee mental illness were vividly illustrated for the world in March of this year with the intentional crash of a Germanwings aircraft by an apparently mentally ill pilot. Although the repercussions of such tragic events can be more significant in safety-sensitive industries like transportation, these kinds of tragic events can happen in any workplace. And the headlines unfortunately often just reinforce the very stereotypes that our laws were intended to eradicate.

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