The management of employee absence and the benchmarking of absence rates is a key issue for employers. Employers need to maximise the days that your employees come to work and minimise the number of days that they are absent.
Apart from the potential cost of absence within an organisation, there are also issues around motivation of staff, disruption to the business, an adverse effect on customer service levels, and loss of productivity, profitability and business.
Employers that impose a blanket ban on watching football during the World Cup risk demotivating staff and losing hours through...
With the football World Cup in South Africa kicking off in just a few weeks, employers are putting in place...
Employers are ill-prepared for the looming World Cup, with many admitting they have no plans in place to manage staff...
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From April 2010, the new electronic ‘Fit Note’ – which replaces the paper-based sick note – is being rolled out...
The introduction of the fit note is an opportunity for occupational health professionals to raise their visibility within organisations, the...
Only five per cent of employers believe that the fit note, launched this month, will cut absence rates, according to...
Supermarket giant Asda today revealed that is it continuing to pay staff who are stranded abroad because of the travel...
Sickness absence management was the topic at a recent roundtable debate between occupational health and HR professionals, organised by Axa Icas Wellbeing. Noel O'Reilly reports.
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Teaching unions will fiercely resist any moves by schools to dock the...
Employers have been urged to be consistent in their approach to managing employees affected by the travel disruption caused by...
Employers are under no legal obligation to pay staff who are stranded because of the travel chaos caused by the...
Businesses that dock the pay of workers who fail to turn up to work because they are stranded abroad by...
Teachers who fail to return to school after the Easter holiday because they are stranded abroad must not be penalised,...
Council workers in England and Wales took on average more than two days off work because of stress last year,...
