Startups

Managing sickness leave in the workplace: complete guide for employers

Below, we’ll go through the causes, costs, and considerations for managing sickness leave. We’ll tell you how to make a sickness policy – including how to calculate Statutory Sick Pay – and offer tips ...
Marketing Stockport

Expert Opinion: A balanced approach to absence management

The team from Stockport-based Hallidays HR explains how external HR advisors can help support businesses with absence management.
Nature

Work Disability and Sickness Absence

Work disability and sickness absence represent critical challenges that affect individuals’ health, quality of life and socioeconomic participation. These conditions arise when physical or mental ...
Online Recruitment

With sickness absence at a decade high, employers must get a grip on their data

With a new report from XpertHR stating sickness absence rates are at their highest levels in a decade and four in ten employers believe they are too high, Adrian Lewis, Director at Activ People HR ...
HR Magazine

Gen Z sickness absence sparks calls for better management, not stricter rules

The vast majority of Gen Z (4 out of 5) called in sick at some point during 2025, making this cohort the most likely to have a sickness absence, according to data analysis published yesterday (28 ...
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Health Care Worker Goes To Work Despite Being Sick In Order To Avoid An “Unauthorized Absence,” But The Rules Changed The Next Week

Have you ever woken up and realized you were too sick to go to work? For whatever reason, that’s often how it works. You don’t know until you wake up if you’ll feel up to working that day or not. In ...
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Healthcare worker goes to work sick because she doesn’t want an unauthorized absence, so her boss sends her home and changes the rules

Imagine working for a company that had a rule where if you called in sick within 2 hours of your shift starting it would be considered an unauthorized absence. Would you find that rule annoying or ...