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04-Dec-08 11:30 [Pay and Reward]
TUC: Fit to work notes do not offer flexibility There will not be increased flexibility offered for employers or employees through fit to work notes, according to an association representing over 6.5 million workers.
Head of health and safety for the Trades Union Congress (TUC) Hugh Robertson said that new proposals announced in the Department for Work and Pensions' (DWP's) report last month left his organisation questioning the effectiveness of the scheme.
Mr Robertson added that the TUC was not against anything that could encourage people to get back to work once they felt able but it was not sure if the new scheme would make this happen.
He continued: "Good employers have already got sickness absence policies that allow for that and see it as an industrial relations matter for discussions between the employer and the worker. Bad employers aren't going to do it anyway."
The DWP announced that the cost to the British economy of working age ill-health equated to £100 billion each year.
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