While the law states that all employees are entitled to reasonable time off work to deal with bereavement, it’s not always clear to everyone what this means. Continue reading
Category Archives: Absence management
CIPD Absence Management Report 2014 Published
CIPD and Simplyhealth have published their annual Absence Management report (2014) and once again the findings are encouraging but also show room for improvement. Continue reading
Time off for expectant fathers
Did you know that from 1 October 2014, an expectant father will be entitled to unpaid time off for ante-natal appointments. 30% of fathers don’t take any time off before the birth of their child and the new legislation is aimed at encouraging fathers’ involvement with their children. Continue reading
Why should employers keep in touch with long-term absentees?
For employers, staff members who are absent from work for an extended period due to illness or injury can incur hefty financial costs to the business. Continue reading
Easy self-assessments could reduce absence due to alcohol misuse drastically
Don Shenker, director of the Alcohol Health Network (AHN), has written an article for Personnel Today about alcohol misuse and ways to prevent it. Continue reading
XpertHR 2014 absence survey results
XpertHR 2014 absence survey results have been released. The survey, which received 256 responses, found that the national average absence rate was 2.6% of working time in 2013, equivalent to six days per employee. Continue reading
From Rio to Wimbledon
Now that the World Cup is over (or so it will feel for most England fans), as we, sadly, correctly predicted on our blog a couple of weeks ago, the impact of the World Cup on absence turned out to be negligible due to the early exit of our boys in white. Continue reading
Letter from Buffalo Skiver and avoiding work during the World Cup
Howdy, Cowboys! Greetings from the wide open prairies of Skivers. I thought I’d drop you a line to let you know how I was getting on. I’ll tell you one thing: things are definitely looking up in the world of Buff, yours truly, and that’s because the football World Cup starts next week!
World Cup starts tomorrow!
Every 4 years it is that time again… the FIFA World Cup (and it starts tomorrow in case you’ve been living under a rock and don’t care about football.) Continue reading
Our response to “5 reasons NOT to have an absence policy”
We recently came across an article that suggested it is sometimes better not to have an absence policy. The subject of criticism was strict attendance policies, which were said to breed discontent and be counter-productive to employee engagement among other things. Continue reading