Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sick leave epidemic has swept through the NHS, driven by rules that allow staff up to six months off on full pay, a report has ...

Sickness absence from work has a large adverse impact on both individuals and societies in Sweden and the costs for sickness absence were calculated to 64.6 billion Swedish kronor (approx. 5.6 billion ...

The number of junior doctors taking sick leave has risen by almost 40 per cent since they began staging strikes three years ago, a Telegraph investigation reveals.

The number of days lost to sickness absence in the UK increased to a record high in 2022, with absences among health and social care workers remaining consistently higher than for other major ...

The current situation with COVID-19 and the need to self-isolate (if exposed) has obviously affected staff absence. In the best of times managing sickness absence has to be done delicately, these are ...

Stress and anxiety accounted for 46,000 of the 81,000 days lost to absence in the year to 31 March.

An employment tribunal has awarded a former airport security worker £37,779.21 after ruling that they were unfairly dismissed ...

Royal Mail has 6,500 postal workers off sick every day, costing the organisation £200m a year, the chief executive explained at The Times CEO Summit last Thursday (18 June). Martin Seidenberg, chief ...