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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released its latest figures on sickness absence rates of workers in the UK for 2025.

In its Next Steps to Make Work Pay plan, the Government promised to review the implementation of carer’s leave, which was introduced into law in April 2024, and the benefits and impact of making it a paid right

The Government has begun four new consultation exercises on key legal updates contained in the Employment Rights Bill. Despite the Bill still not having received Royal Assent, the Government appear to be keen to push on with defining the shape of the new employment rights provided for in it.

Mumsnet is calling on MPs to back an amendment to the Employment Rights Bill requiring large employers with more than 250 employees to publish their parental leave policies and pay. The parenting site, which has been campaigning for change in this area since 2019, has written to all the FTSE 250 urging them to publish their parental leave policies. According to figures for 2024, 43 of the FTSE 100 companies already provide this transparency.

Sickness absence affects every business of every size, and when an employee calls in sick, it can have a massive impact on operations. But, on a wider scale, how big is the problem of sickness absence for UK businesses. Well, the CIPD has published its Health and Wellbeing at Work 2025 report, supported by simply health.

The CIPD has published its Health and Wellbeing at Work 2025 report, supported by Simplyhealth. The report found that employees in the UK took an overall average of 9.4 days’ sickness absence per year. This is a significant increase from an overall average of 7.8 days in 2023 when the survey was last carried out and 5.8 days in 2022.

Following recent calls by the Women and Equalities Committee and campaigners to increase Paternity Leave entitlements (Include link to June’s article ‘Calls for paternity leave entitlements to be increased’), the Government has launched a major review of parental leave and pay to better support working families and help children get the best start in life.

The Government has announced a new initiative that aims to transform how fit notes are issued and help people with health conditions back into employment.

With summer bank holidays coming up, it’s important to make sure you have the right documentation and processes to manage any potential issues…

The hidden annual cost of employee sickness is up £30 billion since 2018 according to a new report published by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR)

This caller wanted advice about whether they could require their employee to take annual leave. So they asked Kate Palmer, Peninsula’s Employment Services Director, for expert advice.

The new Work and Pensions Secretary, Liz Kendall, has confirmed the Government’s commitments to its manifesto Back to Work Plan arguing that it is critical to plans to secure sustained economic growth