Managing Sickness
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Managers are often reluctant to manage sick employees, yet sickness absence represents a staggering proportion of payroll. New rules on Data Protection and Disability, make it important you are up to date and know what you are doing.
This one-day programme offers some strategies on managing frequent absence, long term absence and disability.
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Course content
- Record keeping - what do you need to know?
- Managing frequent short term absence
- Data Protection and Confidentiality
- Failure to notify sickness - problems and solutions
- Return to work interviews
- Medical reports - when to ask for them and how to use them - Data Protection implications
- Maternity and disability related short term sickness
- Communicating with sick employees
- The paperwork trail
- Longer term sickness
- When is a disability not a disability? - Changing disability definitions
- Occupational Health reports
- Health and Safety considerations
- What is a reasonable adjustment
- Flexible working for disabled workers?
- PHI schemes
- Age discrimination and disability - pending changes
- Frustration and dismissal
Workshop Approach
Who Should Attend
HR and line managers responsible for managing sickness absence.
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