Absence/attendance

New and updated

• Type:

  FAQs

  How should employers deal with employees who are late for work due to having stayed up to watch a World Cup match the night before?

• Type:

  FAQs

  What should an employer do if it suspects that an employee's reported sickness absence is not genuine and is due instead to them taking time off work to watch a football match?

• Type:

  FAQs

  What should an employer do if an employee is detained in police custody due to alleged football hooliganism, and is unable to attend work?

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter informing employee on sick leave of outcome of disciplinary meeting that has gone ahead in their absence

  A model letter informing a sick employee of the outcome of a disciplinary meeting that has gone ahead in their absence.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter to sick employee postponing disciplinary meeting

  A model letter to a sick employee postponing a disciplinary meeting.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter informing sick employee that disciplinary meeting is going ahead in their absence

  A model letter informing a sick employee that a disciplinary meeting is going ahead in their absence.

• Type:

  FAQs

  If an employee has been signed off work for a particular period, can the employer allow them to return early?

• Type:

  FAQs

  What should an employer do if it receives a fit note saying that an employee "may be fit for work taking account of the following advice"?

• Type:

  How to

  How to deal with employment issues caused by severe weather or disruptions to public transport

  Practical guidance on dealing with employment issues caused by severe weather or disruptions to public transport, for example where employees are late or unable to get to work due to public transport strikes, flooding or snow.

• Date:

  23 November 2009

  Type:

  Employment law cases

  Annual leave: National law must not prevent employee from taking leave at later time if sick during allotted leave period

  In Pereda v Madrid Movilidad SA [2009] IRLR 959 ECJ, the ECJ held that art.7(1) of the Working Time Directive must be interpreted as precluding national provisions or collective agreements that deny a worker who is on sick leave during a period of scheduled annual leave the right to take the annual leave at a later time, even if this is outside the holiday year in which the annual leave was accrued.