Workplace sickness

Employers are failing to get to grips with sickness absence and many are unaware of their current absence levels and the associated costs.

More than a quarter of a million people are claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) because of mental and behavioural disorders, research has revealed.

Doctors have hit back at proposals that would force them to encourage patients to stay in or go back to work as soon as possible.

Jelf has warned that many of the key recommendations of the Sickness Absence Review are unlikely to ever be realised and called its decision to ignore income protection (IP) as ‘madness'.

Absence management procedures have not kept pace with technology and the way Britain works, resulting in serious welfare, management and productivity issues, a new report has said.

Ellipse has entered the group income protection (GIP) market with the launch of its InteractPlus product which includes an integrated absence management system.

Businesses and government need to issue a "clear and consistent message from the top that work is good for you", the co-author of the Sickness Absence Review has said.

With white papers due this year on long-term care (Dilnot Review), sickness absence and also the Treasury's work on simple products, how much explicit help (not just macro changes to benefits and the NHS) would you want the government to give the industry?...

Employees are more likely to have been absent from work due to personal reasons than because of sickness, new research has revealed.

The majority of employers agree with recommendations to introduce tax breaks for private medical insurance (PMI), a survey has found.