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Stay at home if you're sick even in hard times, say bosses
I couldn't agree more with the reasoning for staying at home when sick. Although it may come hard to some to 'stay away' during illness the facts are pretty conclusive when reviewing past experience. 1. You are only going to delay/slow down your recovery time and let's face it how efffective are you going to be? 2. When you are ill your are ill...
Comment | 5 Nov 2008
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Stay at home if you're sick even in hard times, say bosses
There is a fine line between an effective absence policy and one that eventually creates bad employee employer relations. As BH says they usually cut absence numbers but I bet the work load, time and extra staff that have to be taken on to deal with the number of cases that end up on the wrong end of the policy don’t always justify the money saved. If you are on...
Comment | 6 Nov 2008
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Stay at home if you're sick even in hard times, say bosses
Thats fine if you have a decent absence policy and dont negatively punish those who have been ill. Some employers use their polcies as a weapon to constantly batter staff with and many workers are vulnerable in todays climate.
Comment | 5 Nov 2008
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Stay at home if you're sick even in hard times, say bosses
So OK 'not paying even if it's an Industrial Injury' may well be your cast-in-stone policy B H but surely to goodness the company won't profit from that once the Industrial Injury claim goes to settlement? Yes - as an ex Liability insurance underwriting clerk I know very well there are some people who try to or do threaten their employers with spurious claims - but surely the goodwill and the hardship caused to the genuine individual; let alone ...
Comment | 20 Nov 2008
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Stay at home if you're sick even in hard times, say bosses
...anxiety', 'fatigue' or vigilance decremation that will result in more errors and mishaps even injury. It comes to something when the workplace is more dangerous than serving in Iraq where you would be safer and suffer fewer incidents of Friendly Fire and Collateral Damage to human resources than staying in the UK. What happened to interpersonal relationships founded on good communication and Positive Regard for one's peers or coleagues ?
Comment | 20 Nov 2008
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Stay at home if you're sick even in hard times, say bosses
Presenteeism is said to be more costly to employers than sickness absence because of degraded performance at work. In the 90s recession the sickness absence rate dropped but increased markedly as the recovery started. Looking after the health and welfare of employees during a downturn is "money in the bank" in terms not only survival, but recovery once the crisis is over.
Comment | 19 Nov 2008
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Stay at home if you're sick even in hard times, say bosses
I agree Anne. our company deals with sickness by refusing to pay employees if they are off sick for 2 period in a rolling year. Some employees are entitled to 12 months sick pay after 10 years service but if they have 2 separate days off sick in a 12 month rolling year, the third period of sickness will not be paid. This includes industrial injuries. The policy does reduce sickness absence but also encourages employees who are unfit, to go into work. The job involves driving and employees working when they are unfit ...
Comment | 5 Nov 2008
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Staff with flu should stay at home, advises HPA
Amid Britain’s current flu epidemic a Health Protection Agency spokesperson has stressed that ill staff should stay away from work to avoid spreading flu. New figures show that Britain is currently experiencing a flu outbreak worse than anything seen in the last eight years, with rising numbers of people falling ill. The last big flu outbreak occurred in 1999/2000, when 22,000 people died - ten times the average...
News | 29 Dec 2008
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Staff with flu should stay at home, advises HPA
Opened up some debate anyway regardless of whether you have been infected by the sick before they actually take their illness home......... < http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7814770.stm > Perhaps, just a question of clarity and communication of company policy regarding those presenting themselves 'sick at work'...
Comment | 7 Jan 2009
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H5N1 Bird Flu: Are you playing chicken with your company’s future?
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Magazine issue | 1 Mar 2006
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Internships – Are you breaking the law?
...ckle regulation with vigour, both to free businesses to compete and create jobs, and give people greater freedom and personal responsibility. "Of course we need proper standards, for example in areas like fire safety and food safety. So where regulation is well-designed and proportionate, it should stay. But it is hard to believe that we need government regulations on issues such as ice cream van musical jingles. That's why I want us to be the first government in modern history to leave office having reduced the overall burden of regulation, rather than increasing it. "Our starting point is that a...
Magazine issue | 3 May 2011
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Celebrating 35 years of the Health and Safety at Work Act
...s and the Institute of Psychiatry. Research shows that keeping the brain active by working later in life may be an effective way of warding off Alzheimer's disease. "The intellectual stimulation that older people gain from the workplace may prevent a decline in mental abilities, [and enable them to stay] above the threshold for dementia for longer," says Professor Simon Lovestone so, therefore, the extinction of the office space could equal a rise in Alzheimer sufferers. Research suggests that we are no longer choosing to communicate face to face. It's no surprise when 62% of employers actively...
Magazine issue | 7 Jul 2009
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Flu pandemic: workplace health and safety issues
... use of posters (issued by the Department of Health) in suitable locations which remind employees to use a disposable tissue to control coughs / sneezes and to wash their hands before eating and drinking. To manage the potential spread of the virus, employers should also: advise employees to stay at home, if it is believed that they may have been exposed to the swine flu virus and are exhibiting flu-like symptoms; send home any employees who are displaying flu-like signs / symptoms if you have reason to believe they may have been exposed to the swine flu virus; and in all cases, employees...
News | 24 Jun 2009
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Buncefield disaster: the aftermath and what you can learn from it
...178m and £692m respectively, and as much as we all want the London games to succeed, it is wise to now take reasonable steps against any unreasonable actions. So drafting your BC (and CM plans) and then running exercises and learning the lessons, can make all the difference in a real drama, so you stay afloat rather than sink. However, like swimming, you have to really practice in the safety of the shallow end first. Peter Power is Managing Director of Visor Consultants (www.visorconsultants.com; email: info@visorconsultants. com). He and his team regularly run BC and CM projects and exercises. I...
Magazine issue | 5 May 2009
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Swine flu – Guidance for business
...tact the national Pandemic flu Line service (which will be in operation at the outset of the pandemic) and told not to return to work until the symptoms have cleared and they feel well enough to return. if individuals develop symptoms while not at work, they should adhere to the following advice: stay at home (self-isolate). do not go to work until you are fully recovered. contact the national Pandemic flu Line service for advice and an initial assessment of symptoms in the first instance. inform your employer or occupational health department to let them know you are ill. 5 WHaT sHouLd...
News analysis | 1 May 2009
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Being forced to stay overnight
Elaine I agree with you, I dont think you can 'instruct' an employee to stay over night especially if they have commitments at home, which to some, come first, but if the hotel is paid for and day off is an extra' holiday day, plus you can 'persuade' as such that the evening would be beneficial to them and also, then you may get a bigger take up, but you cant make them stay...
Comment | 26 Apr 2010
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Can an employer stop paying discretionary sick pay
...e malingerers from the genuine article. How big a practise are we talking about? If somebody does have an op and is off to recover then a GP is going to know that the staff are being genuine. What do they want the staff member to do risk their health to come back to work because they cant afford to stay at home? Perhaps you should put that to them now that the "fit"notes are coming in from April. They may find its going to cost them more to accommodate staff on adjustments than it would have done had they paid them to stay off work!
Comment | 9 Mar 2010
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Businesses are too "complacent" about a Bird Flu pandemic
...c contingency plan. Cabinet Office Revised guidance for an influenza pandemic. Pandemic Influenza Checklist for Businesses and organisations. Plus, in the event of a flu pandemic caused by the mutation of bird flu the HSE has this advice for employers: Advise your staff to stay at home if they are sick. It would be a wise precaution to send home, at the earliest opportunity, any employees who are displaying flu-like signs/symptoms since retaining sick employees in the confines of a workplace will increase the likelihood of further spread of the disease to the workforce. ...
News | 11 Dec 2006
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Will bird flu decimate your workforce?
...hat companies have proper contingency plans in place to ensure they can ride out any eventuality, and a pandemic flu outbreak is clearly a potential risk". In the event of a flu pandemic caused by the mutation of bird flu the HSE has this advice for employers: Advise your staff to stay at home if they are sick. It would be a wise precaution to send home, at the earliest opportunity, any employees who are displaying flu-like signs/symptoms since retaining sick employees in the confines of a workplace will increase the likelihood of further spread of the disease to the workforce. ...
News | 16 Jan 2006
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Face facts: how much do you really know about disability legislation?
...ogramme has been John Bamsey, the Chief Operating Officer for the UK and Ireland, and all employees have even received a letter from the Group Chief Executive Officer, Richard North, explaining the importance of their training programme. Some £13m is being spent in 2004 to make sure that the Group stays on the right side of the law, a budget which would no doubt make other service providers envious. The Group set up a disability working group as of 1 January 2004, which meets every six weeks to review progress. The working group comprises 15 senior managers representing all the core areas of the ...
Magazine issue | 1 Oct 2004
