New guidance issued by the CIPD and the Business Continuity Institute BCI warns that absence rates will soar during a predicted second wave of the highly contagious flu now that schools return from the summer break.The prediction that half the working population could be absent at the same time is far above the Government’s guidance that sickness rates could reach 12pc, but both organisations said companies ought to prepare for the worst.
via Swine flu: 50pc of working population could take time off – Telegraph.
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