Absence/attendance

New and updated

• Flexible sick pay could help reduce financial worries

  Date:

  1 November 2018

  Type:

  News

  Flexible sick pay, part-time sick leave and phased returns to work should be considered for employees who take absence for a mental health condition, to help reduce financial hardship.

• Podcast: XpertHR's key HR metrics and what we can learn from them

  Date:

  21 September 2018

  Type:

  Audio and video

  XpertHR has been gathering key HR metrics for over a decade. Here we discuss the trends over time in sickness absence rates, labour turnover and the ratio of HR practitioners to employees.

• Sickness absence dropped to record low in 2017

  Date:

  1 August 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  The average number of sick days taken fell to an all-time low last year, as the CIPD warns "unhealthy" working practices such as presenteeism continue to be overlooked by employers.

• One in five diabetics disciplined for taking time off

  Date:

  16 July 2018

  Type:

  News

  More needs to be done to educate employers about their responsibilities to diabetic workers, it has been claimed, as it emerged that one in five people with diabetes have faced disciplinary action for missing work.

• Travel disruption: how to deal with staff who are late for work

  Date:

  6 July 2018

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  As emergency timetable revisions and signalling problems continue to cause chaos for rail commuters, Nicholas Le Riche and Zoe MacQueen at Bircham Dyson Bell discuss how employers can deal with issues caused by major travel disruption.

• Sickness absence rates and costs survey 2018

  Date:

  28 June 2018

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR's latest sickness absence rates and costs shows a reduction in absence rates nationally, but an increase in the cost to employers.

• How to kick off the World Cup without an own goal

  Date:

  14 June 2018

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  With four weeks of World Cup football matches about to kick off, what do employers need to be wary of, and are there ways to use the tournament as a way to bring staff together? Personnel Today rounds up five considerations for employers.

• Podcast: Kicking off the World Cup in the workplace

  Date:

  8 June 2018

  Type:

  Audio and video

  We discuss how employers can make the World Cup 2018 a positive event for both their employees and their business interests.

• Average employee worked four days while unwell last year

  Date:

  29 May 2018

  Type:

  News

  The average employee worked for more than four days when they were genuinely ill last year, while more than half delayed seeking medical advice because they did not want to take time off work.

• Sickness absence self-certification form

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to take account of the General Data Protection Regulation, in force from 25 May 2018.