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Sickness absence

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.


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    Financial services staff ‘more stressed than in 2008 financial crisis’

    by Ashleigh Webber 6 Apr 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 6 Apr 2020

    The number of stress-related absences in financial services in the past few years had risen to their highest level since...

    • Stress
    • Benefits
    • Financial wellbeing

    Mental health: why employees don’t ask for help (webinar)

    by Lindsay Clark [email protected] 30 Mar 2020
    by Lindsay Clark [email protected] 30 Mar 2020

    ON -DEMAND | | As coronavirus has an unprecedented impact on people's lives, employees' mental health is in the spotlight. But admitting...

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    What you need to know about furlough

    by Helen Farr 27 Mar 2020
    by Helen Farr 27 Mar 2020

    Employment lawyer Helen Farr explores the ins and outs of the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme.

    • Absence
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    • Employee relations

    Coronavirus: What employers need to know (webinar)

    by Personnel Today 19 Mar 2020
    by Personnel Today 19 Mar 2020

    ON-DEMAND | As the true impact of the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic becomes apparent, employers are facing...

    • Coronavirus
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    UK-wide school closures could be imminent

    by Jo Faragher 18 Mar 2020
    by Jo Faragher 18 Mar 2020

    The Prime Minister has said that decisions will be taken “imminently” on school closures in England after devolved parliaments in...

    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News
    • Job creation and losses

    Government pledges £350bn cash injection for employers

    by Jo Faragher 18 Mar 2020
    by Jo Faragher 18 Mar 2020

    The government announced a £350bn package of financial measures yesterday (17 March) to protect employers from the impact of the...

    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News
    • Economics, government & business

    Budget 2020: Coronavirus sick pay to be covered for SMEs

    by Rob Moss 11 Mar 2020
    by Rob Moss 11 Mar 2020

    The chancellor of the exchequer has announced £7 billion of extraordinary measures to help support businesses and individuals who will...

    • IR35
    • Coronavirus
    • Financial wellbeing

    Budget 2020: Coronavirus help ‘not enough’ to avoid hardship

    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Mar 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 11 Mar 2020

    Measures announced in the Budget today will make it easier for workers’ to self-isolate if they suspect they have the...

    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News
    • Sickness absence

    Coronavirus: Why employers should be tackling presenteeism

    by Helen Hughes 11 Mar 2020
    by Helen Hughes 11 Mar 2020

    As the Covid-19 coronavirus continues to spread rapidly, with almost 400 cases and six deaths reported in the UK so...

    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News
    • Business continuity

    Businesses must counter coronavirus misinformation

    by Adam McCulloch 6 Mar 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 6 Mar 2020

    Organisations' resilience under threat during outbreak from unreliable information sources and lack of planning.

    • Coronavirus
    • Department for Business and Trade (DBT)
    • Latest News

    Coronavirus: Support planned for self-isolators who don’t qualify for sick pay

    by Rob Moss 6 Mar 2020
    by Rob Moss 6 Mar 2020

    The government is drawing up plans to offer financial support to people who are self-isolating but who do not qualify...

    • Coronavirus
    • NHS
    • Education

    Coronavirus: One in five workers could be off sick at once

    by Rob Moss 3 Mar 2020
    by Rob Moss 3 Mar 2020

    As many is one in five staff could be off sick at the same time if the Covid-19 coronavirus takes...

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    • Right to work
    • IR35

    Top 10 HR questions February 2020: Coronavirus and right-to-work checks

    by Brightmine 3 Mar 2020
    by Brightmine 3 Mar 2020

    How to respond to the risk of the spread of coronavirus is the subject of February’s most popular FAQs.
    Employers...

    • Coronavirus
    • NHS
    • Latest News

    Statutory sick pay could stymie Covid-19 response

    by Adam McCulloch 2 Mar 2020
    by Adam McCulloch 2 Mar 2020

    Health workers on statutory sick pay face difficult decision if they exhibit coronavirus symptoms, while gig economy workers also may face dilemma.

    • Coronavirus
    • Latest News
    • Sickness absence

    Wetherspoon treating coronavirus ‘like any other illness’

    by Ashleigh Webber 28 Feb 2020
    by Ashleigh Webber 28 Feb 2020

    Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has been criticised for stating that staff will be subject to regular statutory sick pay rules...

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