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Absence levels on the rise, CIPD survey finds

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Source: Occupational Health Review

Issue: 129

Date: 01/09/2007

Publisher: IRS

Absence levels on the rise, CIPD survey finds

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terms, conditions and employee rights	working time and leave
employee relations	employee relations challenges and tools
health and safety	health and safety management employee health

The latest annual survey¹of sickness absence published by the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development (CIPD) suggests that the average level of employee sick leave increased slightly to 3.7% of available working time in 2007, taking the headline figure back to its 2005 level, following its lowest ever rate of 3.5% last year.

Manual workers continue to have higher average annual absence levels than their non-manual colleagues - at 4.3% and 2.7% respectively.

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