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.
The first Monday in February is 'national sickie day', when staff are most likely to take an unofficial day off work, a new poll claims
In possibly the worst ever attempt to take a 'sickie' from work, a mobile phone salesman decided to get himself arrested, a court heard yesterday
More than two-thirds of UK employees think their colleagues are less productive at work during the Christmas period, according to a new survey
Fifty-two percent of UK employers do not pay their workers when extreme weather conditions prevent them from coming into work, according to a poll by UK employment and health and safety adviser Croner
Employers fear that the introduction of 24-hour drinking later this week is going to give their businesses a right old hangover
Anne Edwards, solicitor, Bracher Rawlins, answers this week's dilemma
The government's new health and wellbeing strategy has the potential to revolutionise the way sick employees are rehabilitated and kept healthy in the workplace, a leading health expert has claimed
Anne Edwards of Bracher Rawlins, answers this week's dilemma
Public sector employees have almost three days more off work a year than private sector workers, figures from this year’s CBI/AXA Absence and Labour Turnover survey show
UK employers are losing tens of millions of pounds a year because of the huge number of employees sneaking extra days off around the weekend.
One in five employees admit to faking sickness.
Workplace absence has resumed a downward trend, according to the sixth annual absence management survey by the Chartered Institute of...
Employers are being urged to allow workers to follow the crucial final Ashes Test which starts at The Oval this morning.
UK workers have collectively taken off 78 million working days in the past 12 months due to sickness, research reveals.
Absenteeism – it’s a struggle isn’t it?I don’t mean my own or other HR directors’ rates of absence, which must...
