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26: Is ill health driving economic inactivity, and what can be done about it? – with Sarah O’Connor and Professor James Banks

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What's the Protective Shield?

There isn't, I wouldn't say that there's a good kind of holistic approach right now to this question. But like Sarah says, it sort of falls a little bit between the cracks. And particularly when you get away from the sort of workplace protections in sort of manufacturing sector where there are obvious health and safety risks. When you get to more well-being protection, and most employees are not in the manufacturing sector, they're in the service sector or they're self-employed. That's really where it's very difficult to know whose baby this is, as it were.

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