Source: IRS Employment Review Issue: 842 Date: 03/03/2006 Publisher: IRS

Absence management: the employers' story

TOPICS:
terms, conditions and employee rights working time and leave
employee relations  employee relations challenges and tools
health and safety  law and codes of practice
health and safety management
employee health
health and safety organisations

AUTHOR: Sarah Silcox


Employers and employees have markedly different experiences of absence management practices, and it is not necessarily the case that managers have all the answers, as the HSE's new survey highlights.


Learning points

  • Employers tend to underestimate the extent of work-related ill health in their workplaces, while talking up their own health and safety management performance, according to the first results of a new HSE survey.
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