Employers can do a great deal to ensure their employees remain fit, healthy and able to work. Director of Jelf Employee Benefits Chris Ford looks at how benefits providers can help. A sickness absence ...

But for those companies that see long-term absence as the unavoidable part of business, the new Welfare Reform Bill, which is going through Parliament now, could be a shock. It wants employers to ...

Improving return-to-work interviews is the single most effective absence management measure, according to a recent survey by Personnel Today‘s sister organisation, pay specialist IRS. The survey of ...

A survey by Simplyhealth and CIPD published at the end of September 2023 has found the highest level of absence in UK employees in over a decade. Here, Beyond Corporate Employment Expert, Lucy Flynn, ...

The University is committed to supporting the health and wellbeing of all staff. As part of this commitment, the University recognises the importance of creating a positive environment, whereby staff ...

Anyone who has scaled up a business will understand that there is potential for people problems to increase as a team grows. A common yet sometimes complicated issue of people management is sick leave ...

The purpose of this policy is to define expectations and identify related attendance management issues, and to emphasize the importance of good attendance. The ability of the university to provide a ...

The first Monday of February is known as National Sickie Day the day employees lie about their wellbeing to get out of work. ELAS, which promoted the notion, maintains that a combination of miserable ...