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In this guide, we'll look at what skiving is, how it impacts business, and how to deal with it in your workplace.

Most employers will have dealt with staff who are too ill to work. In these situations, they may request to take time off – or ‘sick leave’.

In this guide, we'll discuss what garden leave is, employee rights during this type of leave, and the benefits it can bring.

In this guide, we'll discuss what menstrual leave is, the benefits of offering it, as well as how you can create your own menstrual leave policy.

In this guide, we'll discuss what unpaid leave is, the different types, and how to manage it successfully in your company.

Read our guide where we'll discuss what sabbatical leave is, how long it can last, and how to manage it in your business.

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.