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.
In a potentially groundbreaking study, researchers from Nottingham University will investigate the best way to use fit notes to facilitate...
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After a period where absence levels have been declining, this Personnel Today webinar will bring you up...
The proportion of British companies reporting high rates of staff sickness fell to less than half that reported in Germany...
If the nine million days a year lost by the NHS through staff absences could be reduced by giving them...
A slow and steady decline in absence levels among organisations over the past five years appears to have come to...
The manufacturers’ organisation EEF has called for a “summit” of employers and the medical profession to be held to discuss...
Wednesday 5 June 2013 2:00pm BST
Employers have to expect a certain amount of staff sickness absence and many implement...
The Government has indicated that employers may, in principle, be able to overrule a GP’s advice in a fit note...
The Government has pledged to establish a new national health and work assessment and advisory service by the end of...
Employers will be able to make use of a new independent assessment and advisory service in order to address sickness...
Line managers still tend to be the “gatekeepers” for absence recording in most organisations, latest research has argued.The study of the...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) dismissed 672 people last year for unsatisfactory attendance, a Freedom of Information Act...
Falling absence levels may point to a rise in presenteeism rather than successful absence management strategies, according to the Chartered...
Government assessments of people’s fitness to work have revealed what occupational health practitioners have known for a long time: a...
Some of the progress made in recent years in reducing workplace absence stalled last year, with absence from work largely...
