Employers have been urged to check that their staff are receiving information and advice so they can plan their Games-time travel.

Dame Carol Black (pictured), author of Health at Work and expert advisor to the Department of Health and Lord Freud, parliamentary undersecretary of state for the Department for Work and Pensions have...

With 17 days to go until Euro 2012, almost a quarter of employees have admitted to calling in sick to work to stay at home to watch sport, according to a global poll of more than 7,000 staff.

Approximately 131 million working days were lost to sickness absence in 2011, a new report from the Office for National Statistics shows.

The European Court once more returned to the issue of carrying over untaken leave but also how much holiday leave employees absent due to illness should receive.

UK organisations are struggling to cope with Olympics staffing challenges, as many employees (21%) are willing to take unauthorised time off to watch high profile events, according to a YouGov survey,...

The area of holidays and sick leave is fraught with complexity.

Employers are failing to get to grips with the issue of sickness absence, with many unaware of current absence levels, according to Aon Hewitt.

A significant proportion of the UK’s small business bosses are risking burn-out and ill-health as they battle absence to keep businesses afloat, according to health insurer Bupa.

Two national days of co-ordinated public sector strike action in the UK last year have contributed to the highest level of working days lost to industrial action since 1990, according to full-year...

It is going to become increasingly difficult to pull the wool over the boss’s eyes and take a false sick day in the future, according to a report into absence management technology by Office...

While technology has changed the way we work, absence management procedures have not kept pace, creating serious welfare, management and productivity issues, according to the major report released...