CIPD

Hi Mairi

What work activities are your employees performing at home that require a drug and alcohol test? They can’t be driving or operating plant. I can’t think of any activity where an employer could reasonably require drug and alcohol testing that…

We do. We offer 3 days paid leave for that too but we just say "relative", so it could be parent, grandparent, brother or sister, uncle, cousin or anyone else who is a family connection.

I think there is a phase in life where the older generation…

Hi Aoife

Would you usually accept a backdated fit note? If so, then that’s what I would do in this case, unless you have good reason to believe that the fit note has been tampered with or is a fake. The point about the employee going abroad against advice…