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Do your staff do overtime? Recent tribunal rulings suggest that in the near future it will be required for holiday pay to be calculated based on actual hours worked not just on contracted or "basic" hours. This would then most likely be calculated on average hours...
Has your business seen a rise in sickness absence since the start of the summer? Is the absence genuine or do you suspect that it may involve more lying on a sunbed than a sick bed? Is the absence authorised or do staff simply not turn up for work? Hot weather...
Fit Notes are failing to get people back to work according to a survey published last month. the 2013 EEF / Westfield Health Sickness Absence Survey indicates that some employers are increasingly negative about the value of the Fit Notes in supporting employees to...
So apparently today is National Sickie Day with more employees deciding that today the thought of work is just simply too much to bear than any other day of the year! Have your employees all opted to stay under the duvet today? Or are they all at work bright &...
As we approach the end of the year do you have staff in a desperate mad dash to use up annual leave? Have you had to insist people use up holiday or have you ended up allowing a large number of employees to carry holiday over to next year? Do you worry that you...
Yesterday we discussed the issue of dealing with non-genuine sickness absence but how do you manage actual sickness absence as a business? All of the same principles of recording and monitoring are useful to help you understand the sickness levels in your business....
So how was the Christmas Party?! Everyone turn up for work the next day? We’d guess most did show up – maybe late with sore heads, sorry faces, a distinct lack of work being done?! It is a brazen employee who chucks a sicky after the work Christmas Do but whilst the...
What is the average number of sick days taken by employees in your business? How does it compare to National averages reported by the Office for National Statistics? The ONS say that sickness absence levels are improving - is this your experience? There are many easy...
vivoHR – helping you manage your employment challenges Absence makes your colleagues work harder! Well Christmas is over and done with, the New Year parties are finished and everyone is back to work…..we hope! Perhaps not surprisingly, there are seasonal variations in...
