Absence/attendance

New and updated

• 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.

• Statutory sick pay

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to include the proposed statutory sick pay rates for 2019/2020.

• Letter informing an employee absent from work due to sickness that his or her pay will be stopped or reduced

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include the proposed rate of statutory sick pay from April 2019.

• Short-term sickness absence policy

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include the proposed rate of statutory sick pay from April 2019.

• Long-term sickness absence policy

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include the proposed rate of statutory sick pay from April 2019.

• Statutory sick pay rises

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  The rate of statutory sick pay increases.

• 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.