Industry urges radical action to cure sickness absence

Posted on 13 Jun 2016 by Jonny Williamson

Britain’s manufacturers are urging tax breaks to tackle the UK’s chronic sickness absence problem, which would encourage more employers to pay for private treatment for employees and ease the burden on an under pressure NHS.

The call was made today by EEF on the back of the UK’s biggest business survey on sickness absence and, ahead of a Green Paper on workforce health to be published this summer. The survey, published with Jelf, shows that long term absence is continuing to increase; while, at the same time, the NHS is…

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