Paid time off for dental and medical appointments, childcare vouchers and private medical insurance are the top three staff benefits...
Sick pay
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Can workers take annual leave during a period of sickness absence?Stringer and others vHer Majesty’s Revenue and Customs Court of...
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Slightly fewer days were lost to absence last year, with UK employees taking an average of 6.7 days off each...
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A fit-for-work service should come into play after an employee has been signed off work by their GP for about...
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Voluntary Group Income Protection plans offered by Personal Group are changing the future of income protection available to individual employees.VGIPs enable employees to...
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Local NHS employers are to implement more rigorous sickness absence management standards as a result of a new national agreement1 reached...
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NHS makes sickness absence and ill-health retirement deal with employees
by Mike Berryby Mike BerryNHS employers and trade unions have agreed a set of new arrangements to help manage sickness absence and ill-health retirement...
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An eight-year legal battle to secure part-time firefighters the same rights to pensions and sick pay as their full-time colleagues...
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The very mention of sicknotes and GPs is the equivalent of lighting the blue touch paper and preparing to stand well back for most employers. Jonathan Whittaker, partner at SAS Daniels, looks at whether the proposal of a 'well note' will solve anything.
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We will have to get used to calling the sicknote the ‘well note’ following the recent announcement by health secretary...
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Government departments could do more to tackle civil service ‘sickie’ culture
by Mike Berryby Mike BerryThe Cabinet Office has admitted that government departments “can do more” to reduce staff sickness absence.Figures showing that the absence...
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Stringer v Her Majesty’s Revenue & CustomsFACTS This case involved two groups of workers employed by Her Majesty’s Revenue &...
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Kent Police has defended its absence rate following a report revealing that almost 10% of officers take more than 28...
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On 26 July, Hansard reported that “In the period July 2006 to June 2007, the Department [of Work and Pensions]...
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This updated version of the guide originally published in 2004 includes an overview of developments in government policy, such as incapacity benefit reform, which will have a major effect on how employers deal with incapacitated employees as well as covering important changes to employment law.