Absence/attendance

New and updated

• Date:

  28 March 2019

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Webinar: Tricky sickness issues - your questions answered

  Darren Newman discusses tricky sickness absence related issues, including the relationship between sickness absence and disability discrimination, and the steps you can take to support an employee's return to work.

• Type:

  How to

  How to manage an employee who goes off sick during a performance improvement procedure

  Practical guidance on managing an employee who goes on sickness absence while subject to a performance improvement plan (PIP), including dealing with short-term and long-term sickness absence; absence that is related to the performance management procedure; and when it may be appropriate to consider a settlement agreement.

• Type:

  Editor's choice

  Winter weather issues: resource round-up

  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.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

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

  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.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

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

  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.

• Type:

  Policies and documents

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

  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.

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  Statutory sick pay rises

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

• Date:

  28 June 2018

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  Sickness absence rates and costs survey 2018

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

• Type:

  Policies and documents

  Sickness absence record

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

• Type:

  Line manager briefings

  Short-term sickness

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