Sickness absence and sick pay

New and updated

• Holiday entitlement on long-term sickness absence policy

  Type:

  Policies and documents

  Updated to include information on the ECJ decision in The Sash Window Workshop, in which a worker was entitled to carry over paid annual leave where he had not been given the opportunity to take it.

• Do employees have to give their consent for a referral to the Fit for Work service to be made?

  Type:

  FAQs

• What is the Fit for Work service?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Can employers use their own occupational health advisers instead of the Fit for Work service?

  Type:

  FAQs

• Statutory sick pay rises

  Type:

  Legal timetable

  Updated to include a reference to the finalised Social Security Benefits Up-rating Order 2018.

• Fit for Work assessments to be scrapped

  Date:

  1 December 2017

  Type:

  News

  The Government has announced that Fit for Work assessment services will close next spring, following low referral rates.

• Sickness absence: plan now for the ageing workforce

  Date:

  29 November 2017

  Type:

  Commentary and analysis

  Employers need to plan for an ageing workforce where absences will be longer and employees may need to change their duties and responsibilities, argues David Hope, CEO of absence management specialist FirstCare.

• New statutory pay rates for maternity, paternity, shared parental leave, adoption and sickness

  Date:

  27 November 2017

  Type:

  News

  The Government has published the statutory rates for maternity pay, paternity pay, shared parental pay, adoption pay and sick pay from April 2018.

• How to introduce and manage an occupational sick pay scheme

  Type:

  How to

  Practical guidance on introducing and managing an occupational sick pay scheme, including deciding on the factors determining entitlement, setting the sick pay rates, taking account of previous absence levels and communicating the scheme details.

• Sickness absence rates and costs 2017

  Date:

  4 August 2017

  Type:

  Survey analysis

  XpertHR's sickness absence rates and costs survey shows movement after a long period of stability.