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.
The government announced a £350bn package of financial measures yesterday (17 March) to protect employers from the impact of the...
The chancellor of the exchequer has announced £7 billion of extraordinary measures to help support businesses and individuals who will...
Measures announced in the Budget today will make it easier for workers’ to self-isolate if they suspect they have the...
As the Covid-19 coronavirus continues to spread rapidly, with almost 400 cases and six deaths reported in the UK so...
Organisations' resilience under threat during outbreak from unreliable information sources and lack of planning.
The government is drawing up plans to offer financial support to people who are self-isolating but who do not qualify...
As many is one in five staff could be off sick at the same time if the Covid-19 coronavirus takes...
How to respond to the risk of the spread of coronavirus is the subject of February’s most popular FAQs.
Employers...
Health workers on statutory sick pay face difficult decision if they exhibit coronavirus symptoms, while gig economy workers also may face dilemma.
Pub chain JD Wetherspoon has been criticised for stating that staff will be subject to regular statutory sick pay rules...
The number of years people will have to live with poor health is set to increase by 17% over the...
Employers need to be pragmatic and fact-based and clear in their communications when managing staff, including some in Wuhan, China,...
Employers lost on average 38 working days per worker to physical and mental health-related absence and presenteeism in 2019, costing...
Only three out of 10 (29.3%) NHS staff say their trust takes positive action on health and wellbeing, with many...
Acas has published advice for employers on dealing with the new coronavirus outbreak, including how to handle employees who have...
