statutory sick pay

Work and health consultation

Lower earnings threshold

New Equalities Hub

One million too ill to work for longer than a month every year

Does the importance of early intervention and effective rehabilitation during absence outweigh the financial benefits of group income protection?

Almost as many UK workers believe they are likely to win the lottery (8%) as they are to be unable to work due to sickness for 12 weeks or more (9%), a survey for Cirencester Friendly has found.

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) is developing a workplace statement that will allow employers to tell employees exactly what sickness benefits they are entitled to.

Company sick pay is not available to 34% of working Britons, amounting to 11m people, research by LV= has revealed.

There has been a second fall in the numbers of long term sick people between November 2014 and January 2015, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have revealed.

The number of people who were off work with long-term sickness fell by 12,000 in the October-December period 2014 compared with a year earlier.