Absence

Highlights the main causes of absence, gives information on measuring absence and managing sickness absence, and outlines the law. Includes the CIPD viewpoint.

Frequently asked questions and answers on the legal aspects of absence management.

Produced jointly with Acas and the Health and Safety Executive, and available to members and non-members, this tool offers four practical tools to help assess absence in your organisation.

Our latest annual benchmarking survey containing data on rates, targets, causes and costs of absence, stress and absence management. With links to previous surveys.

Details of the CIPD policy response to Dame Carol Black's review of the health of Britain's working age population

Summary of CIPD research report.

Government efforts to get the long-term sick off benefits and back to work risk being undermined by low levels of rehabilitation support in the workplace,...

The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) welcomes proposed changes to the sick note system to create a new well note . The well note ...

Comments by the House of Commons Public Accounts committee about an 'amazingly high rate of absence at two government agencies are reinforced by research...

Sickness absence costs organisations hundreds of pounds. This report analyses data collected from 40 different organisations and comprises over 80,000 absence spells of 30,000 individual employees.

Join us in London or Birmingham to discover practical solutions to your existing problems in absence management.

This 1-day course gives participants the knowledge and skills to assist in reducing absence and tackling poor performance in the workplace, including formal actions such as disciplinary procedures