The Trades Union Congress (TUC) has announced it is challenging employers to promote staff well-being through "good work".
It stated that workplace managers should not only prevent their employees from becoming ill, but should also actively promote positive health and well-being.
The comments come after the release of the TUC’s In Sickness and in Health? report, which [...]

Following what is reported to have been the coldest UK winter is some 30 years, with snow falling across most of the country, new figures have revealed many employees were unable to get into work.
In what is likely to have caused an absence management headache for HR professionals, research by the Federation of Small Businesses [...]

Even when they have been successfully treated, employees who suffer from depression could cause problems in terms of absence management for their employees, it has been reported.
According to Thomson Reuters, workers suffering from the condition take more days off sick than their healthy counterparts, as even after taking antidepressants, the illness can impact on productivity.
A [...]

Absence management may be made easier if businesses install remote access technology, which could boost the productivity of the workforce in the event that delays such as tube strikes or the snow prevent people getting into the office, one sector commentator has asserted.
Employers must make their systems accessible to staff off-site to avoid circumstances such [...]

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Monday 18 January marks what is famously known on the business calendar – and may be a date many HR staff are familiar with – as Blue Monday.
In 2005, psychologist Cliff Arnall, from the University’s Cardiff Centre for Lifelong Learning, announced the third Monday of January is the most depressing day of the whole year.
This [...]

The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has called for a major conference to take place in order to better prepare for when snow hits the UK, such as has been seen during the recent winter cold snap.
According to the group, small firms will play a key role in tackling adverse weather conditions and is urging [...]

The unprecedented cold snap the UK is continuing to experience – thought to be the worst in over 30 years – is continuing to cause problems in terms of absence management, in news which HR staff may be only too aware of.
Data from the Confederation of British Industry suggests the snow is set to cost [...]

Businesses have experienced considerable disruption recently, as a result of the severe weather that the country has suffered.
Many employees have valiantly battled against the storm to make it in to their places of work, but others have been unable to travel in at all.
Sue Evans, a partner at Lester Aldridge, offers her advice to employers [...]

An extra bank holiday will be part of the celebrations to mark Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012, Lord Mandelson, President of the Privy Council, announced today.

The Government is planning celebrations to mark this historic occasion which include:

An additional bank holiday in June 2012:

The holiday will involve moving the late May Bank Holiday to Monday [...]