An Employer’s Guide to Absence Management – Part 3
An employer's guide to absence management - Part 3 In Part 2 we focused on the importance of record keeping, the use of absence management [...]
December 2018
An Employers Guide to Absence Management – Part 2
An Employers Guide to Absence Management - Part 2 In Part 1 we focused on identifying types of absence (read here). Part 2 will focus [...]
November 2018
An Employer’s Guide to Absence Management – Part 1
An Employer's Guide to Absence Management - Part 1 Identifying sickness absence Sickness absence can prove very costly for employers irrespective of the size of [...]
May 2018
The importance of Mental Health Awareness month
The importance of Mental Health Awareness month As May is Mental Health Awareness month (with a full week dedicated to it 14th-21st May), stress [...]
What is Presenteeism? And how is it harming my business?
What is Presenteeism? And how is it harming my business? ACAS defines Presenteeism (or sickness presence) as staff becoming “increasingly reluctant to take time off [...]
January 2018
An employers guide to short term absences
An employers guide to short-term employee absences. Managing Short Term Absences - A recent study has shown that average sickness absence per employee stands [...]
Phased Return to Work and SSP
Phased Return to Work and SSP It is a requirement to pay employees a minimum rate of pay when they are off sick, provided they [...]
October 2017
Child Bereavement Leave
Child Bereavement Leave On the 19th July 2017 the Parental Bereavement (Pay and Leave) Bill was introduced by Kevin Hollinrake MP to ensure grieving parents [...]
Time off work: how much is too much?
Time off work: how much is too much? Employee absence and time off work is a tricky issue for employers: what constitutes unauthorised absence, when [...]
September 2017
Contacting sick employees at home
Contacting sick employees at home Absence notification procedures are usually the starting point of a good absence management process. The employee’s return to work will [...]