Sickness absence and sick pay

New and updated

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Effective attendance management: Business benefits

  Enhanced by creating four separate guides on effective attendance management, to help you find the guidance you need. This initial guide explores why it is important for employers to proactively manage employees’ attendance levels.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Effective attendance management: Procedures for managing absence

  Leading practice guidance discussing the procedures that employers can implement to manage employees' absence.

• Type:

  Leading practice guides

  Effective attendance management: Establishing the causes of absence

  Leading practice guidance discussing how employers can establish the underlying reasons for frequent absence in order to improve employees' attendance levels.

• Type:

  Legal timetable

  Statutory sick pay increase

  The weekly rate of statutory sick pay increases.

• Date:

  2 November 2023

  Type:

  Podcasts and webinars

  Webinar: Handling HR nightmares

  We look at workplace scenarios that can strike fear into the heart of the most experienced HR professionals, including issues relating to: discipline and grievances; redundancy; and new legislation.

• Type:

  Policies and procedures

  Obtaining medical reports policy

  Updated to extend the circumstances that may lead to a request for a medical report.

• Type:

  Training

  Long-term sickness - line manager training

  Updated to reflect that nurses, occupational therapists, pharmacists and physiotherapists can issue fit notes from 1 July 2022.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Statement of fitness for work (fit note)

  Updated to link to the Government's updated sample fit note, which now contains a numbered guide explaining each section of the fit note.

• Type:

  How to

  How to obtain and use medical reports on employees

  Updated to reflect that the ICO has published guidance for employers on when they can collect information through medical examinations (which replicates guidance previously contained in the withdrawn Employment practices data protection code).

• Type:

  Training

  Return-to-work meetings after short-term sickness absence quiz - line manager training

  A quiz for line managers to test their knowledge on the law and practice relating to return-to-work meetings after short-term sickness absence.