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Top Introduction COSTS OF ABSENCE Comparing levels of absence Managing attendance Referral to occupational health Verifying the reason for... The complex phenomenon of... Conclusions References

Sickness absence, or as it can be defined more precisely, absence from work that is attributed to sickness by the employee and accepted as such by the employer, remains high on the agenda for governments in the European Union (EU). Over the last decade most EU governments have implemented legislation that changes social security payments for the initial period of sickness absence.¹ This has had the effect of transferring the initial cost of sickness absence away from the taxpayer to the employer, who it is thought will have more direct control over absence from work. In some countries the cost of the initial period of sickness absence has also been transferred back to the employee by, for example, removing payment for the . . . [Full text of this article]

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