Every now and then we approach our EBA Experts to answer some of your pressing questions as entrepreneurs and business owners. Here’s Greg Brown clarifying the tricky problem of holiday entitlement when your staff work irregular hours.

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The cost of sickness absence to UK plc is significant (over £13.2bn at the last count). How much does your business contribute to this figure? Is it higher than you’d like it to be?

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‘DC’, business owner with an annual turnover of £5.5m asked: “With 60 staff, what is the best way to keep people doing what they should? As soon as we look in the other direction they suddenly stop doing what they should be doing! We’re Ok for a month but then they take their eye of the ball! What’s the best method to keep a large number of people focused on keeping the small things done as well each and every month without standing over them?”