Civil Servants: Termination of Employment

(asked on 14th January 2016) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, what the change in the number of civil servants who have had their employment terminated due to absence related to their sickness record has been in each of the last five years.


Answered by
Matt Hancock Portrait
Matt Hancock
This question was answered on 21st January 2016

This information is not held centrally. Each employing department operates their own attendance management process and keep their own records.

The Civil Service strives to improve health and wellbeing at work for our staff and this remains a priority. We have reduced our level of sickness absence over the past five years and continue to actively manage our progress against benchmarking information. However if an employee does not meet the attendance level expected of them then we will take appropriate action, which in some cases might lead to dismissal.

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