Sickness and sick pay

While sick employees need to be treated fairly, you need to ensure that 'sickness' is not being used as cover for unauthorised absence.

Sickness and sick pay - overview

While sick employees need to be treated fairly, you need to ensure that 'sickness' is not being used as cover for unauthorised absence.

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Article

How to handle sickness absence

Creating a sickness policy enables employers to discourage absenteeism, support staff that get ill and take disciplinary action if needed.

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FAQs

Sickness issues and SSP FAQs

Unsure how to handle employee sickness absence issues, or how much statutory sick pay (SSP) you may need to pay? Read our useful FAQs.

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Tool

Workplace wellbeing tool

The workplace wellbeing tool on the GOV.UK website can help you work out the costs to your business of poor employee health and how to take action.