Workplace sickness

The NHS will offer help and support for workplace incentives to promote employee health and cut sickness-related unemployment.

The average level of employee absence has fallen by a day to 6.6 days per employee in the last year, nearly a third report that rates have been affected by caring responsibilities, research has found.

Unum has urged the government to improve take-up of income protection (IP) through four key steps including channels such as the Money Advice Service (MAS) raising awareness of sickness absence.

A report from The Work Foundation and Fit for Work UK is accusing employers of not doing enough to support people with chronic musculoskeletal disorders.

SME employees are at increased risk of ill health and burnout, according to a new poll by AXA PPP Healthcare.

Reducing the working week to four days would help to combat work-related stress and the mental ill-health associated with overwork or lack of work, one of Britain's leading doctors says.

The Disability Benefit Consortium has launched its 2014 Big Benefits Survey and is looking for input.

Auto-enrolment (AE) has prompted an increasing number of employers to overhaul their entire benefit offering, JLT Employee Benefits research reveals.

The right to request flexible working has been extended to all employees from today, where it was previously limited to just parents and carers.

Over a quarter (26%) of employees have called in sick to work when they weren't ill; according to research from Canada Life.