Managing sickness absence is a key issue for employers. Employee absence is a significant cost to the majority of businesses in the UK.
In addition to the direct costs of employee absence (paying sick pay and paying someone else to perform the absent employee’s work), high levels of absence can demotivate those employees who have to take on the absent employee’s work, cause all-round disruption to productivity and adversely affect an employer’s continuity of service to its clients.
Employers should give managers mental health training to enable them to facilitate conversations, health bodies have said.
A quarter of employers are not granting workers paid time off to get Covid-19 vaccinations, according to a survey from...
Streamlining processes and giving managers flexibility to adapt approaches have helped L’Oréal navigate Covid-19.
Half of UK adults would lie to their employer if they had to take time off for their mental health....
The NHS app sent half a million alerts last week, and employers have called for plans to make the app less sensitive to be brought forward.
The fact Covid-19 can cause anything from short-term illness through to longer term hospitalisation and even months of ‘long Covid’...
XpertHR data shows that just 2.2% of working days were lost to sickness absence in 2020.
An NHS receptionist who lost her job after telling her employer she was scared of working in a public-facing role...
The Treasury has rejected accusations it hid guidance stating that employees who were self-isolating could be placed on furlough.
Study finds 55% of ‘deskless’ workers have gone into work while unwell because they could not afford to take time off.
Most frequently asked questions last month focus on right-to-work checks and Covid-19 vaccinations and quarantine.
ON-DEMAND | In this CPD webinar for OHW+, Noreen Tehrani examines psychological surveillance in organisations in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic.
Falling sickness absence rates may seem like good news, but they could mean serious health and wellbeing issues are going undetected.
Homeworkers did more overtime and worked more hours during 2020, according to the Office for National Statistics.
Unions have criticised the government for increasing statutory sick pay by a ‘miserly’ 50p per week.
