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Acas offer free online learning to help manage absence at work

Acas has developed a free online learning package designed to help small businesses and organisations manage absence in the workplace.

High levels of absence can have a serious impact upon business. According to the CBI's absence and labour survey 2003, the cost to business was £11.6 billion with 176 million working days lost.

The Acas course covers topics such as:

• Unplanned/unauthorised absence
• Handling a long-term absence
• Developing an absence policy and procedures
• Recognising patterns of absence
• Handling frequent and persistent absenteeism

The package aims to help people set up procedures to suit their own organisation and is also designed to be used as a resource for practical advice and information when dealing with a real absence issue.

"Acas believes that prevention is better than cure, which is why our good practice guidance helps thousands of businesses stay out of employment tribunals each year," said Rita Donaghy, Acas Chair. "Our good practice guidance helps employers keep up to date with employment law and have the right procedures in place to deal with problems promptly.

"Handling absence in the workplace can often be daunting. This online learning package will help employers develop appropriate polices and procedures to get it right. Using Acas' good practice will help stop problems developing in the first place."

External link

The new online learning package is available at: www.acas.org.uk/elearning/

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