Employers doubt fit note initiative - Aviva

Both business owners and workers are dubious about how Fit Notes will be brought into effect in April 2010, and question the initiative's power to reduce employee absence rates and get employees back to work sooner. Among 500 employers, just 5% thought Fit Notes would reduce absence rates. One in ten thought they would be hard to administer and 68% had little or no knowledge of the change and how it would work for them. On the employee side, of the 1,000 respondents 57% did not think their doctor was in a position to say if they are fit enough to work. GPs agree, with 64% feeling ill...