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.
Sickness absence in the manufacturing sector has fallen below an average of seven days per worker per year, research has...
Westminster City Council has hailed its restructured sickness absence policy, following a decline in sickness absence rates.The new programme was...
I have an extraordinary sickness absence record. In the 15 years that I have been a member of the workforce...
Another day, yet another survey damning hardworking Britons, branding them with the Scarlet Letter of sloth and deception. For two...
To some employees, a sick day is a means to extend the weekend. But you can take action.
An employee competed in the London Marathon. She was running for charity in fancy dress and tripped on part of...
As the Department for Work and Pensions sets up a working party to look at redesigning the Med 3 sicknote, Nic Paton examines what it means for OH professionals, GPs, employers and employees.
Some 5,000 nurses are currently being treated for back pain, and the rising number of obese patients on wards is...
Levels of injury and illness among NHS workers are generally falling, though violence and bullying remain a serious problem, according...
The inflexibility of the NHS is severely hampering employers’ efforts to reduce workplace absence because managers have no option but...
The staggering cost of absenteeism to UK organisations made the headlines last week. Employers body the CBI’s annual report on...
One-quarter of European employers now offer incentives to encourage staff to take fewer sick days, according to a survey. The...
Kent Police claims its wellbeing initiatives introduced in 2003 have reduced police officer absenteeism by 25% – the equivalent of...
Managers suspect that 12% of absences last year involved staff ‘pulling a sickie’, which translated into a loss of 21...
A Tesco employee suspended from his job during a police investigation into the murders of prostitutes in Suffolk is still...
