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Employers guide to assessing fitness to work, including asking for medical evidence, fit notes, and dealing with long term or frequent absences.
Agricultural Sick Pay means you're paid wages while you're sick - can you get it, how to claim, what you'll get
Agricultural Sick Pay (ASP) means you’re paid at least the Agricultural…
Number of months continuous employment when you went off sick Maximum…
You only have the right to Agricultural Sick Pay if you were employed…
Tell your employer about your sickness or injury and they’ll sort out your…
If you need advice, contact the pay and work rights helpline.
Your Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) - how much you get, eligibility, how to claim SSP, fit notes, disputes.
You can get £116.75 per week Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) if you’re too ill to…
If you’re eligible, you can get £116.75 a week Statutory Sick Pay (SSP)…
To qualify for Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) you must: be classed as an…
To claim Statutory Sick Pay (SSP), tell your employer by the deadline.…
Employer guide to Statutory Sick Pay - SSP rates, form SSP1, eligibility, fit notes (formerly sick notes), recover statutory pay.
Dame Carol Black's and David Frost's independent review of the sickness absence system in Great Britain.
Experimental statistics estimating the different health conditions of the working-age population and those economically inactive due to long-term sickness.
This research provides a description of employer behaviours and practices relating to sickness absence and health in the workplace.
Statistics that contribute to the evidence base supporting the work and health consultation “Health is everyone’s business: proposals to reduce ill-health related job loss”.
Reforms to occupational health services will be shaped through a £1.5m innovation fund, through Innovate UK's Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI), as the government continues its drive to tackle in work sickness and boost economic activity using new technology and...
Use these tables to find out if an employee's period of sick absence links with a previous one.
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