General Practitioners (GPs) are utilising the fit note to initiate discussions with patients about returning to work.
The Department for Work and Pensions has published a report evaluating the Statement of Fitness for Work and the views of GPs on their role in sickness certification...
Long-term absence accounts for nearly one-third of all sickness leave.
According to figures from the CBI and Pfizer Absence and Workplace Health Survey, UK businesses lose 190 million working days every year. Around 32 per cent of this figure is attributed to long-term absence....
Employers lost 190 million working days last year due to sickness absence.
The average employee had 6.5 days off sick last year according to research from CBI and Pfizer. The Absence and Workplace Health Survey highlighted the £17 billion annual cost of sickness in the UK....
The fit note is falling down because many doctors are refusing to fill it out adequately.
Lord Freud, Welfare Reform Minister, has thrown into the question whether the scheme is an effective way of helping workers to return to work as quickly as possible. The fit note, which...
Helen Rice-Birchall and Kate Sheenan outline recent tribunal rulings concerning holiday leave accrued during sickness absence.
The Working Time Directive is implemented in Great Britain by the Working Time Regulations 1998 (WTR), which provide workers with the right to take 5.6 weeks’ paid holiday in each leave year.
The WTR provide that:
the first four weeks’ statutory holiday may only be...
