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.
Acas has issued employer advice ahead of the Women's World Cup semi-final, which sees England's Lionesses face Australia.
Employees are delaying dental treatment due to worries about asking their employer for time off work, Bupa Dental Insurance has found.
Questions last month focused on the agency workers during strikes, payment in lieu of notice and dismissing an employee who is in prison.
Kelly McCabe explains how organisations may be able to support employees on a waiting list for NHS treatment, lessening the impact of delays.
There was an increase of over 400,000 people unable to work because of long-term conditions since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, the ONS found.
Ministers are today (20 July) launching a consultation on ways to increase uptake of occupational health provision, linking health in the workplace with the UK’s economic inactivity problems.
NHS dentistry is facing 'a crisis of access', MPs have warned, with people being forced to drive hundreds of miles for treatment.
Popular HR questions in June 2023 include topics such as term-time workers' holiday pay and rights to time off for fertility treatment.
One in five doctors with long Covid has been forced to stop working because of the severity of their symptoms, according to a British Medical Association report.
NHS England sickness absence hit 27 million days in 2022, according to analysis by Nuffield Health. The absence rate was 5.6%.
The latest workforce survey from the Department for Education shows teachers leaving in record numbers.
Official figures reveal that a record number of people in the UK are economically inactive due to long-term sickness.
What is the entitlement for employees who are off sick on a bank holiday? See this and other top HR questions for April 2023.
The percentage of working hours lost to sickness or injury rose to 2.6% in 2022, the highest it has been since 2004.
Almost half of UK managers witness a rise in employee mental health issues, according to a survey by Peninsula.
