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.
January 2025's top 10 HR questions include FAQs ion TUPE, severe weather, notice periods, and alcohol or drug misuse
A group of 24 union leaders has written to the government urging it to go further with reform to statutory sick pay (SSP).
Research shows people without flexibility in their jobs are four times more likely to leave work following a decline in health.
Government unveils biggest reforms to employment support for a generation with the publication of its Get Britain Working white paper.
Businesses may face extra costs with the changes to SSP mooted by the government but these will be neutered by productivity increases and health and morale improvements, say campaigners.
Older workers with long-term health conditions are more likely to be out of work than their younger peers, according to...
Stress about finances is driving a wave of absenteeism in UK organisations, with men and managers hardest hit.
Labour’s reforms to workers’ rights - due this week - could take years to bed in and will not all be introduced at once, reports suggest.
Sickness absence during a disciplinary process is the top FAQ in September 2024's top HR questions on Brightmine.
Economic inactivity due to sickness could soar to 4.3 million in the UK by the end of this parliament, a cross-party Commission warns.
A new positive duty on employers to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment comes into force from 26 October 2024.
A paralegal has been awarded more than £100,000 in compensation after the firm she was working for blocked her dream to become a solicitor.
More than a fifth of people who had to take injury leave last year were not paid while they recovered, according to MetLife UK.
A woman who was sacked after being off sick for more than four years has lost her unfair dismissal case against Maximus UK Services.
The Labour government has said that it will remove the qualifying period for unfair dismissal claims, and there is a new code of practice for dismissing and re-engaging employees.
