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.
Organisations should be given access to free or low cost Covid-19 tests to help staff stay safe, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) has said.
British Chambers of Commerce seeks more support from ministers for smaller firms now that free Covid testing has ended.
When managing employees with long Covid, employers need to remember their obligations under disability discrimination law.
Whether long Covid meets...
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Rishi Sunak urged to continue sick pay rebate for all smaller firms and increase rate of SSP.
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7 February is National Sickie Day – “under the weather” Monday if you will.
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The government's levelling up white paper outlines plans for more investment in weight management services and healthier eating.
There will be an additional bank holiday in 2022 to celebrate the Queen’s platinum jubilee.
Many employees will be entitled...
Head teachers and school leaders are reporting a spiralling mental health and wellbeing ‘crisis’ within education because of the pressures...
Most organisations have ramped up their mental health and wellbeing support since the pandemic hit, but are their actions actually making a difference?
‘Being a midwife is not my job, it's who I am. But we don't want to be forced into having the vaccine by the threat of losing our jobs’
Legal warning over staff from certain ethnic or religious backgrounds as well as those who are pregnant.
Two London NHS hospitals have said they could lose 1,000 employees if they do not get vaccinated in line with...
