Sick pay

One in five employees admit to faking sickness.

Absenteeism – it’s a struggle isn’t it?I don’t mean my own or other HR directors’ rates of absence, which must...

Contractual dispute

An infl uential group of MPs as suggested that prison staff should not be paid for the fi rst three days...

The government is to wait until the summer to publish a Green Paper on incapacity benefit to give the disability lobby time to take part in an informal consultation about the plans

Police officers who are off sick for more than a year will not be paid their allowances under a proposal that has been put forward to the Police Negotiating Board

Chief economist claims that delaying the full introduction until 2008 means the reforms will have little impact on current labour market pressures

Measures to crack down on sickness absence in the public sector will only succeed if line managers are given extra...

Civil servants could have their pay docked for taking unwarranted sick leave as part of a clampdown on ‘sicknote culture’.Ministers...

UK retailers today warn that another rise in the National Minimum Wage (NMW) could lead to more than 20,000 jobs...

Having survived a near-fatal accident, HR director at B&Q, Mike Cutt, explains how it feels to be on long-term sickness leave and on the receiving end of his company's HR policies

Tesco is running trials to see how it can improve its unplanned absences. In the trials, which involve voluntary participation, the retailer is not paying for the first three days of a staff member's sickness. Here's what other HR professionals had to say on the subject.