Absence/attendance

New and updated

• Upcoming webinar: Pregnancy sickness - managing absence issues successfully

  Date:

  16 April 2019

  Type:

  Audio and video

  Join us on 24 April for an hour-long webinar, where Jo Broadbent will be discussing the key legal and practical considerations involved in the management of pregnancy sickness, including health and safety requirements and the steps that can be taken to support an employee during traumatic situations, such as miscarriage.

• Menstruation: Is period pain a disability?

  Date:

  12 April 2019

  Type:

  Legal guidance

  Many men and women still view menstruation as a taboo topic and feel uncomfortable talking about periods, even though they affect 51% of the UK population at some point in their life. Natalie Taylor looks at whether period pain can constitute a disability and at ways employers can support women with more severe symptoms.

• Poor management has led to spike in stress absence

  Date:

  10 April 2019

  Type:

  News

  Stress-related absence has increased for two-fifths of organisations in the past year, according to new research from the CIPD and Simplyhealth.

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

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to reflect the statutory sick pay rate, in force from 6 April 2019.

• Short-term sickness absence policy

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to reflect the statutory sick pay rate, in force from 6 April 2019.

• Long-term sickness absence policy

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to reflect the statutory sick pay rate, in force from 6 April 2019.

• Statutory sick pay

  Type:

  Quick reference

  Updated to reflect the statutory sick pay rate in force from 6 April 2019.

• Sick pay

  Type:

  Employment law manual

  Updated to reflect the increase in the rate of statutory sick pay, effective from 6 April 2019.

• Statutory sick pay

  Type:

  Statutory rates

  Updated to reflect the statutory sick pay rate in force from 6 April 2019.

• Coming soon to XpertHR

  Type:

  Editor's choice

  Updated to include information on the forthcoming Labour turnover and costs survey and associated benchmarking data.