The average rate of sickness absence during 2015 across the UK was 2.6% of working time, calculations for a recent survey has concluded. Benchmarking survey on absence rates and costs examined sickness absence among 1,681,721 employees within 661 organisations, and concluded there has been a

Many employees are set to see their pay eroded over the next year as inflation rises and employers keep pay awards to a minimum. Findings from a survey reveal that private-sector employers are planning to give their employees pay awards of just 2% over

Employees need to know how to surface and share knowledge. That’s the biggest learning and development challenge facing start-up companies, according to a technology investor. Organisations of all sizes can learn much from the experience of start-up companies, talking about the future of workplace

Second medical opinion services can help older workers return to work after sickness absence and reduce risks for employers, argues a source. Few things in business can ever be predicted with any great degree of certainty. However, one thing is a foregone conclusion: older

Gender pay gap reporting is just the start of tackling gender diversity.  It’s the action that businesses take based on these insights that will set them apart.  With government figures showing the average British woman still earns 81p to every £1 earned by a

New English language requirements for public-sector workers in customer-facing roles come into force on 21 November 2016, following the publication this week of provisions under the Immigration Act 2016. Workers must be sufficiently fluent in English, or – in Wales – in English or Welsh, for the

HR and L&D professionals are increasingly at the heart of key decisions over resource and projects that significantly impact business performance and organisational culture. We are frequently asked to look at ways to improve business performance, yet knowing exactly what research, data or trends

CEOs of FTSE 100 companies earn almost 150 times the average employee in their organisation. With calls for greater transparency, would publishing pay ratios balance things out? As proposals to force companies to publish excessive salaries are fast-tracked by Downing Street. A source looks

The Government should continue to increase the national living wage at the rate it planned when it was announced, according to a source. Since the Brexit vote in June, there have been calls from business lobbyists to restrain future increases above the current rate

Cancer accounts for almost one-third of all long-term sickness absence claims paid through income protection in the last year, according to findings by employee benefits company. Cancer accounts for 31% of claims paid, with breast and gastrointestinal cancers responsible for almost half of those claims. Gastrointestinal