Absenteeism In Northern Ireland Councils 2006 07

Author : Northern Ireland. Chief Local Government Auditor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780337095726
Total Pages : 47 pages
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Download or read book Absenteeism in Northern Ireland Councils 2008-09 written by Northern Ireland. Chief Local Government Auditor and published by . This book was released on 2010-04-29 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chief Local Government Auditor reports on absenteeism based on data requested from the 26 councils on an annual basis. The data is analysed over a three year period to counter the impact of annual fluctuations in absenteeism which could distort findings particularly within smaller councils. The report notes that 121,000 working days were lost as a result of sickness which is an average of 12.43 days per employee during 2008-09,There has been a reduction of 1.27 days (or 9 per cent) compared to the 2007-08 rate of 13.7 days. The current absence rate is lower than at any time during the last decade. There has been a reduction in the cost of lost productivity due to absence from £16.4m in 2007-08 to £15.5m in 2008-09. In terms of long term absence, 65 per cent of the total cost of time lost due to absence was as a result of long term absence compared with only 5 per cent for the UK economy. Stress, depression, mental health and fatigue are noted as the largest cause of absenteeism, being responsible for 23 per cent of all days lost. Musculoskeletal problems accounted for 17 per cent of absence and together these two causes account for £6.3m worth of lost productivity. The importance of the management of absenteeism is emphasised, and councils with high and rising absenteeism rates should benchmark their practices against the best-performing councils.

Author : Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Audit Office
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780337096570
Total Pages : 56 pages
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Download or read book Absenteeism in Northern Ireland councils 2009-10 written by Northern Ireland: Northern Ireland Audit Office and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2010-11-29 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Chief Local Government Auditor reports on absenteeism based on data requested from the 26 councils on an annual basis. The data is analysed over a three year period to counter the impact of annual fluctuations in absenteeism which could distort findings particularly within smaller councils. In 2009-10, Northern Ireland councils employed over 9,800 staff at a cost of £299 million. Staff costs account for 42% of the councils' expenditure. The report sets out a number of main findings and recommendations, including: Northern Ireland councils as a whole lost almost 122,000 days to absenteeism in 2009-10, an increase of around 700 days compared to 2008-09; there is a resultant absenteeism rate of 12.39 days for each full time equivalent employee which reflects a marginal reduction of 0.04 days. This absenteeism rate for all Northern Ireland councils is now lower than any annual rate recorded this decade with a reduction of 16%. Stress, depression, mental health and fatigue remains the largest cause of days lost due to absenteeism, responsible for 22% of days lost in 2009-10, down 1% from 2008-09. As in previous reports, the NIAO recommends that councils with high and rising absenteeism rates should review their own management practices and benchmark these against those councils with low and falling absenteeism rates. In general there was an improvement in the quality of absenteeism data presented by the councils.

Author : Northern Ireland: Local Government Audit Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780337087424
Total Pages : 12 pages
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Download or read book Absenteeism in Northern Ireland Councils 2003/2004 written by Northern Ireland: Local Government Audit Office and published by . This book was released on 2005-05-05 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dated April 2005

Author : Northern Ireland Audit Office
Publisher : Stationery Office Books (TSO)
ISBN 13 : 9780337090097
Total Pages : 68 pages
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Download or read book Management of Sickness Absence in Northern Ireland Civil Service written by Northern Ireland Audit Office and published by Stationery Office Books (TSO). This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil Service is one of the largest employers in Northern Ireland with around 28,000 non-industrial staff.Sickness absence levels are considerably higher in the Northern Ireland Civil Service than in Great Britain and in 2006-07, some 323,000 days were lost. This is an average of 13.7 days for every full-time equivalent member of staff. Sickness absence considerably reduces the productivity of Government departments; it affects service delivery and costs more than £25 million a year. It is very important, therefore, that Civil Service departments manage sickness absence effectively.This report examines the management of sickness absence in the Northern Ireland Civil Service.Its main findings are: some sickness absence is inevitable, good management can help to minimise it by ensuring that the causes of work-related ill-health are addressed and staff are helped back to work as soon as possible. Absence levels in the Northern Ireland Civil Service are around 36 per cent higher than in GB departments. The Civil Service has set a target to reduce absence to 9.5 days per employee by 2010. However action taken to date has not delivered reductions of the order necessary to meet this target. Long-term absence lasting more than 20 working days, accounts for nearly 70 per cent of all days lost. The main cause of absence is classified as psychiatric/psychological illness. This accounts for nearly a third working days lost and stress-related illness is a major element in this classification. Female sickness absence in NI is almost double that in Great Britain. If reduced to GB levels, this alone would achieve most of the 9.5 days target. Higher levels of absence are associated with factors in the workplace such as organisational change, role uncertainty and high work demands. There are indications that many of these factors are present in the Civil Service and that they are not being adequately addressed. Early intervention by occupational health professionals tends to limit the duration of absence. However, it takes 53 days on average for Civil Service staff to be seen by its Occupational Health Service. The average long term absence therefore, would last for over two months before any definitive action was taken. There have been some initiatives to address long term absence. A Taskforce was set up in November 2006 to research the causes of long term absence including work-related stress and to make recommendations to address them. A draft report is currently subject to consultation.

Author : Stationery Office (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
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Download or read book The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue written by Stationery Office (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stationery Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780115017988
Total Pages : 584 pages
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Download or read book The Stationery Office Annual Catalogue 2011 written by Stationery Office and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stationery Office annual catalogue 2011 provides a comprehensive source of bibliographic information on over 4900 Parliamentary, statutory and official publications - from the UK Parliament, the Northern Ireland Assembly, and many government departments and agencies - which were issued in 2011.

Author : Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Northern Ireland Affairs Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780215033000
Total Pages : 220 pages
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Download or read book Tourism in Northern Ireland and its economic impact and benefits written by Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Northern Ireland Affairs Committee and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2007-03-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee's report examines the nature of tourism in Northern Ireland, its impact on and importance for the overall economy, and the effectiveness of measures taken by Government and other relevant agencies to develop, promote and support the marketing of Northern Ireland as a tourist destination. The Committee's recommendations are addressed to the Northern Ireland Office (which took back responsibility for tourism in Northern Ireland when the power-sharing executive was suspended in October 2002) but if a power-sharing executive is re-established then responsibility for tourism will revert to the restored Executive and, accordingly, responsibility for scrutiny of this policy area would revert to the Committees of a restored Assembly. The Committee's report makes 27 recommendations to help Northern Ireland maximise its tourist potential, and concludes that if government recognises the enormous economic impact of tourism, and if private enterprise in co-operation with statutory bodies can develop this recognition into a coherent strategy, there is no reason why the success of tourism in the Republic of Ireland should not be replicated in Northern Ireland to the advantage of the whole island of Ireland and with Northern Ireland itself enjoying an equivalent status to Scotland and Wales as a UK tourist destination.

Author : Nigel G. Foster
Publisher : Blackstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0199288186
Total Pages : 770 pages
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Download or read book Blackstone's EC Legislation 2006-2007 written by Nigel G. Foster and published by Blackstone Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Blackstone's EC Legislation has been fully revised and updated to include all relevant legislation through to June 2006. The seventeenth edition includes the updated information notice on preliminary rulings, and the Court of Justice Rules of Procedure have been replaced with the Rules consolidated in 2005. Also included in the seventeenth edition: All major treaties, The texts of Protocols attached to treaties, Complete text of the proposed European Constitution, Tables of equivalences for the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty Establishing the European Community, Legislation covering worker and consumer protection, competition, and the free movement of goods and persons. Book jacket.

Author : Gordon Anthony
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509933166
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Judicial Review in Northern Ireland written by Gordon Anthony and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 3rd edition of this leading text provides a detailed account of the purposes of judicial review; the nature of the public-private divide in Northern Ireland law; the judicial review procedure; the grounds for review; and remedies. As with the previous editions, the focus is on case law that is unique to Northern Ireland, and the book identifies some important differences between principle and practice in Northern Ireland and England and Wales. These now include differences resulting from the Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol (as amended by the Windsor Framework), and this edition explains how and when EU law continues to apply in Northern Ireland. It also considers the leading Human Rights Act decisions of the Northern Ireland courts and the House of Lords and UK Supreme Court. The new edition refers to case law from the courts in England and Wales and Scotland; the Court of Justice of the European Union; and the European Court of Human Rights. There is a particular focus on recent rulings of the High Court and Court of Appeal in Northern Ireland and of rulings of the Supreme Court in cases heard on appeal from Northern Ireland. It considers the main points of the Judicial Review Practice Direction 03-2018 and surveys the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 and its implications for Northern Ireland (including the incorporation of the Ireland-Northern Ireland Protocol, as amended by the Windsor Framework). The book will be of use to practitioners in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, and also to those involved in the study of judicial reasoning in different jurisdictions (both within the UK and elsewhere).

Author : Carol Dame Black
Publisher : The Stationery Office
ISBN 13 : 9780101820523
Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book Health at work - an independent review of sickness absence written by Carol Dame Black and published by The Stationery Office. This book was released on 2011-11-21 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year 140 million working days are lost to sickness absence. Most end with a swift return to work, but over 300,000 people a year fall out of work onto health-related state benefits. This Review aims to stop as many people as possible from needlessly moving away from work because of ill health, and to find ways of improving the coherence, effectiveness and cost of the system for managing sickness absence. There are potential major gains for employers, who spend £9 billion a year sick pay and associated costs, and the state, which spends £13 billion annually on health-related benefits. Currently the majority of people seeking a medical certificate are signed off as completely unfit. Until this is addressed, employers cannot make adjustments to help those people whose illness is compatible with a return to work. The central recommendation is that the Government should establish an Independent Assessment Service (IAS) which would provide an in-depth assessment of an individual's physical and/or mental function. It would also provide advice about how an individual could be supported to return to work. The service would replace GP certification. Other recommendations include: tax relief for expenditure by employers on medical treatment/vocational rehabilitation; abolishing the Percentage Threshold compensation scheme and the record-keeping obligations under statutory sick pay; introduction of a job-brokering service for long-term sick employees; end the Employment and Support Allowance assessment phase so as to improve and speed up the benefits system; improved processes in Jobcentre Plus.