Supporting a Return To ‘Normal’

Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, mental health issues were the most common causes of long-term sickness absence from the workplace in the UK. While we cannot yet determine the full impact of the pandemic on mental health, it’s safe to say that its effects will certainly outlive the pandemic itself. Currently the direct health impacts

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Can Employers Reduce Sick Pay To Unvaccinated Staff?

This year, in response to the high rates of workplace absence and associated costs triggered by the Omicron variant of Covid-19, many big names such as Morrisons, Next and IKEA were reported to be cutting Company Sick Pay for unvaccinated workers. The decision caused much debate over its legality and morality, but with much of

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Fit or Fake? The Covid-19 Edition

The Fit Note (or its full title of ‘Statement of Fitness For Work’) provides information to employers on short-term and long-term health conditions affecting individual employees, and the likely length of time they will be absent from work.  But in the age of Covid-19, where there are more genuine reasons for employees to be absent,

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The Return Of The Summer Holiday?

Looking out of the window as I write this it is apparent that summer is fast approaching, and with it, the traditional holiday period and the long school summer break. We remain hopeful that the COVID-19 restrictions will continue to ease, including those imposed on international travel, albeit with the traffic light system in place,

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The Post-Pandemic Hybrid Organisation

The global, government-initiated responses to Covid-19 have meant that many organisations have had to close their offices indefinitely, with many employees moving to homeworking. This massive change brought to the forefront the need to adjust processes, to embrace digital communications, and, through a situation rarely dealt with prior to the pandemic – the need to

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Vaccinations and the Workplace – A Q&A with Su Allen HR

The global occurrence of Covid-19 and the subsequent restrictions, regulations, safeguards and now vaccines created to combat it have raised many discussions on workplace health and safety, managing risk, personal choice and freedom, privacy, and many more that will undoubtedly develop as the year progresses. Therefore, this month’s blog is a Q&A, featuring the most

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Employment Law in 2020 – This Is The Year That Was

Every year, UK Employment Legislation sees a number of changes, to accommodate new precedents set by cases and court rulings, and to reflect changes to lifestyles, societal needs, political landscapes and more. I think we can probably all agree that 2020, possibly more so than any other year in recent memory, handed those out in

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