An analysis carried by the CBI and insurer AXA revealed that 172 million sick days are lost to absence at a cost to the UK economy of nearly twenty billion pounds.
With approximately 12 percent of sick days being described as bogus and most of these coinciding with the weekend, then it is not surprising that employers believe that they are being used as a means to extend the time off of staff members.
What this means to you as an employer is that per employee you are losing well over six hundred pounds and close on seven working days.
It is easy to concentrate on the obvious cost to you but due consideration has to be given to the indirect costs of these inconsiderate actions and these include the time taken by you to organise agency staff or bring others in on overtime and also the drop in client confidence in your company cannot be underestimated nor ignored.Apart from the obvious statistics of direct monetary and man hour loss, you must also take into account the additional time and effort that you will now have to put in to organise cover for this member of staff, inclusive of arranging overtime or the use of agency staff and let us not forget that you will suffer a loss of client credibility as a consequence of their uncaring act.
The figures speak for themselves and should help you realise that not all employees share an allegiance to you or the company or their colleagues and are prepared to take extra time off for something as trivial as extending their weekend leisure time.
Another consequence of the willingness of some people to abuse the sickness policy of your company is that those who are genuinely ill will always feel that they are being scrutinised and their actions brought under suspicion.
Should the motives of an employee with a poor sickness record be called into question, then you need to be able to ascertain the righteousness of the suspicion.
To do this successfully and leave absolutely no room for error then you have to use the services of a top quality Private Investigator or a company that supplies an employee investigation service.
A quality company will supply you with detailed time lined written reports coupled with high quality video and photographic evidence, allowing for absolute certainty of an employee's status.
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