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20/08/2010

New guidance available on supporting the long-term sick so they can return to work

New guidance aimed at helping managers support people returning to work after long-term sickness can play a key role in preventing workers with health problems fall out of employment, according to the CIPD.

David Woods, HR Magazine, 20 August 2010 Reports

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13/08/2010

Four times more men than women phone in sick because of work-related stress

Men are four times more likely than women to phone in sick due to work-related stress. Of the 3,000 workers surveyed by healthcare cash plan provider, Medicash found 20% of men admitted to taking two sick days in the past month because of stress.

David Woods, HR Magazine, 13 August 2010 Reports

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11/08/2010

Time off for training Regulations to be reviewed by Government

The Government is reviewing the right to request time off for training Regulations that came into effect in April 2010.

Mike Berry, Personnel Today 11 August 2010 Reports

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11/08/2010

Absence management can improve productivity and reduce unemployment figures

Unemployment is currently at 7.8% in the UK. It is important for businesses to address a number of issues to help reduce this figure or at least to avoid any continued increases in this figure. Many business solutions, such as time, attendance and absence management software, can help businesses ensure staff retention through securing their job by increasing their productivity. This can lead to a growth in business and the need to recruit more staff, which can potentially generate a reduction in unemployment figures.

Marc Clavereau, HR Magazine, 30 July 2010 Reports

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29/07/2010

Sickness absence is falling but studies disagree on the reason

Depending on who you want to believe, sickness absence is either falling fast because of the recession, or the downturn has led to a glut of sick days with stressed-out workers across Europe concocting more and more excuses not to come in.

Nic Paton, Occupational Health, 28 July 2010 Reports

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26/07/2010

Annual leave entitlement is a greater source of dissatisfaction for men than it is for women

Men are far less satisfied than women with the amount of annual leave they get from work, with private-sectors workers more dissatisfied than their public-sector counterparts. The findings, which form part of IFF Research’s Attitudes to Work study, highlight disparate views among workers on this employee benefit.

David Woods, HR Magazine, 26 August 2010 Reports

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19/07/2010

Weekly dilemma: Holidays and sickness

One of my employees recently went on her two-week summer holiday, but rang up halfway through to tell me she was sick. She's back at work now, but has requested to take the period of annual leave during which she was sick at another time. Do I have to agree to her request, or can I refuse?

David Brown, Personnel Today 19 July 2010 Reports

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15/07/2010

UK employees took 35 million sickies last year

British workers take more falsely claimed sick days than almost any other major European country, costing employers millions, new research has shown.

Beth Holmes, Personnel Today 15 July 2010 Reports

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15/07/2010

UK's ‘sickie’ culture could be the fault of employers

Following a report highlighting the 35 million days UK workers falsely take off as sick days, business commentators have questioned whether the problem lies with employers themselves.

Beth Holmes, Personnel Today 15 July 2010 Reports

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07/07/2010

Absence management: Can new technology predict when employees are going to be off?

There is no shortage of statistics on rates of staff absence. And systems are now being developed that not only record absence data but actually predict when an employee will next be off. The danger is that such information can be open to misinterpretation.

Robert Gray, HR Magazine 07 July 2010 Reports

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01/06/2010

Absence management - How sick is the public sector

The TUC's findings on employee absence in the public sector may surprise you.

Peter Crush HR Magazine 01 June 2010 Reports

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31/05/2010

World Cup Sickies

According to a survey by FIFA sponsor Continental Tyres, 1-in-4 UK workers plan to "pull a sickie" to watch the World Cup this June.

That breaks down to more than nine million U.K. employees calling in sick for an average of 3.5 days during the month-long tournament.

To ditch work, soccer fanatics will use more than 31,850,000 excuses as they call or text their bosses with fake illnesses.

The most commonly used ailments will include an upset stomach (28%), vomiting (23%), or headaches (20%). One in six workers will lie and say their car won't start or they suddenly have food poisoning.

How will your organisation maintain employee attendance and productivity levels, as well as avoid sickies as staff get behind their national team?

Read our 3 step plan to avoid the world cup sickies

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06/04/2010

Fit note replaces the sick note

Doctors are from today able to inform employers of the duties an employee is able to perform in a move which scraps the 62-year-old sick note system.

Introduced as part of the creation of the NHS in 1948, GPs used sick notes to decide whether a patient on sick leave for more than seven days should or should not return to work. They have now been replaced by 'fit notes' through which doctors outline how an employee may be able to perform if temporary changes are made to their working conditions.

The Department for Work and Pensions claims the introduction of the new notes, formally known as 'statements of fitness for work', will boost the UK economy to the tune of £240m by 2020 as a result of the reduction in the amount of time people take off work.

Read more at BusinessZone.co.uk
Click here to download 'A Statement of Fitness To Work A guide for employers'

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24/03/2010

Dept of Health look to Save £555m by reducing staff sickness absence

The Department of Health and the NHS announced that it will deliver £4.35bn of savings, as their departmental contribution towards £11bn savings that are being made across Government of these savings the Department of health is plans to save up to £555m by reducing Staff absnece

Click here to read more

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01/02/2010

National Sickie Day

Did you know that it's National Sickie Day today! According to research Monday 1 February is the worst day of the year for absenteeism and puts pressure on all organisations across the UK to manage the impact of unauthorised absence.

The cost of absence to any organisation is significant and even for SMEs should not be underestimated. Latest research on absence from the CIPD (2009), for example, highlights that the average cost of absence per employee is £692 per employee every year, with staff absence accounting for 8.4 working days for each member of staff annually. This represents 3.7% of the total working time. Employee absence is a significant cost to 90% of businesses, according to the survey.

For the UK economy as a whole this represents a whopping £17.3 billion.

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23/11/2009

New Activ Absence Control website

Welcome to the new Activ Absence Control website Codel Software is delighted to announce the launch of the new Activ Absence Control website.

Your feedback would be very much appreciated.

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24/11/2009

Monday is most popular sick leave day

More than a third of all sick leave is taken on a Monday, especially in January, new research has shown. Click below to read the ITN news story that highlight's what companies will be facing in the New Year.

http://itn.co.uk/fa1420586311869f259fa3bba70c383b.html

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