Best practice for employers
What is ACAS Early Conciliation?
The ACAS early conciliation process is a free service you can use to try and resolve an employment dispute. You can start the process online …
June 14, 2024
The ACAS early conciliation process is a free service you can use to try and resolve an employment dispute. You can start the process online …
Quite often sickness absence will put employers under pressure to get staff back into work after long periods of absence. Pressuring a sick employee…
The Labour party intends to make some sweeping changes to employment law if it wins the next general election. The reforms are set out in its paper entitled…
What should you do if a new recruit discloses a medical condition? It is important to understand that employers cannot ask job applicants questions about health but they should ask once a job offer has been made.
Return to Work Interviews after sickness. Although I hate using the term, ‘interview’ most people understand the concept of a return-to-work interview…
Occupational Health and work what do you need to know? There are occasions when every business may need to initiate an occupational health referral for an employee.
New Government Guidance on Fit Notes for Employers. Fit notes have undergone significant changes in the last 18 months; including a new version of the fit note
How do employers deal with high sickness absence rates? According to new survey findings from the CIPD and Simplyhealth (2023), UK employees were absent for 7.8 days on average over the past year, the highest level reported in over a decade and two days more than the pre-pandemic sickness absence rate of 5.8 days.
We are often asked to advise employers where an employee wants to return to work before the end of the sick note/fit note provided by a healthcare professional
The current cost of living crisis appears to be hitting hard across the UK, as revealed by a recent survey carried out by FindOutNow across 1,063 adults.