Absence Management

Course Content

Poor employee attendance and timekeeping has the potential to cost your organisation dearly in both time and resources. Increased staff and overtime to cover sickness absence, the hiring of expensive agency staff all are as a direct result of poor sickness levels within an organisation. Add to this, increased stress levels of those workers who are required to work harder and longer due to a colleagues absence and we have a potentially business threatening state of affairs. This course is designed specifically to look at the whole issue of absence management from prevention to dealing with real-time situations.

Key Topics

• Industry Norms
• Responsibilties for tackling non-attendance
• Monitoring methods
• Post-Incident procedures and reporting (De-brief)
• Identifying trends and patterns of absence
• Dealing with long term and short term absence
• Case law
• Managing return to work
• Return to work interviews
• Occupational health / when to refer
• Requesting GP notes - do's and don'ts

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