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.
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...
HR must consider the risk that some staff might call in sick to take time off where annual leave may not have been granted by an employer.
Workers in key industries will be offered daily lateral flow tests as infections grow.
More than 90 care home operators have declared a staffing emergency, as thousands of care workers are forced to self-isolate...
Public services including healthcare, transport and education are coming under strain amid crippling Covid-19 absence rates.
Health leaders have indicated...
Questions on employees’ Covid vaccination status, self-isolation and testing continued to be popular during December.
Employers were also asking various...
Some employers may be in a quandary over how to handle employees who take long-term sick leave this winter.
Businesses should expect staff shortages because of a surge Omicron cases, ministers have been told.
According to cabinet sources, prime...
Almost two-thirds of employers think the UK’s rate of statutory sick pay (SSP) is too low, according to research by...
Royal Mail is experiencing staff absence rates around twice pre-pandemic levels, with many employees off because of stress or Covid-19,...
UK construction workers are turning to drink, non-prescription drugs use and even self-harming because of high levels of mental distress,...
