Absence/attendance

New and updated

• Take part in our annual sickness absence survey

  Date:

  18 February 2019

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  High sickness absence rates can have a damaging impact on the health of organisations. This is your chance to take part in our research on the level of absence in UK organisations and benchmark your organisation's sickness absence figures against others.

• Take part in our occupational sick pay survey

  Date:

  12 February 2019

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  XpertHR is investigating occupational sick pay schemes and would like to request your assistance with our research.

• Podcast: Wellbeing in the workplace

  Date:

  8 February 2019

  Type:

  Audio and video

  A round-up of XpertHR's latest research on employee wellbeing in the workplace, including the reasons employers introduce initiatives, programmes that have the most impact on employee wellbeing and challenges to introducing measures in this area.

• Winter weather issues: resource round-up

  Date:

  29 January 2019

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  We round up our resources that will help you manage workforce issues that can arise from severe winter weather. We provide guidance on likely scenarios, including where employees are late or unable to travel to work, or stay at home to look after children because schools are shut, as well as closure of your workplace.

• How to deal with employees on long-term sickness absence

  Type:

  How to

  Updated to include additional information on the risks of dismissing employees who are entitled to receive payments under a permanent health insurance scheme.

• Long-term sickness absence policy

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on Awan v ICTS (UK) Ltd, in which the EAT held that an implied term prevented the dismissal of an employee with long-term disability cover.

• Letter inviting an employee to a stage 3 long-term sickness absence meeting

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on Awan v ICTS (UK) Ltd, in which the EAT held that an implied term prevented the dismissal of an employee with long-term disability cover.

• Order of proceedings for a stage 3 long-term sickness absence meeting

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on Awan v ICTS (UK) Ltd, in which the EAT held that an implied term prevented the dismissal of an employee with long-term disability cover.

• Letter confirming the outcome of a stage 3 long-term sickness absence meeting

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on Awan v ICTS (UK) Ltd, in which the EAT held that an implied term prevented the dismissal of an employee with long-term disability cover.

• 2019 statutory pay rates revealed

  Date:

  28 November 2018

  Type:

  News

  The Government has published the statutory rates for maternity pay, paternity pay, shared parental pay, adoption pay and sick pay from April 2019.