Absence/attendance

New and updated

• Podcast: Wellbeing in the workplace

  Date:

  8 February 2019

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  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

  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.

• 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.

• Statutory sick pay rises

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  Updated to reflect that the draft Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2019 has been finalised.

• 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.

• Sickness absence record

  Type:

  Policies and documents

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

• 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.

• Short-term sickness

  Type:

  Line manager briefings

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