Managing sickness absence training is important to ensure that employee absence is handled in a fair and consistent manner, helping managers to understand their legal responsibilities and provide them with the tools and techniques necessary to effectively manage sickness absence. It can also help to reduce the negative impact of sickness absence on productivity, morale, and costs.
This course aims to:
- Provide learners with an update on the legal framework surrounding sickness absence management, including a case law round up of pertinent cases which will influence their organisation’s sickness management processes
- Address the difficulties in relation to managing different types of absence
- Reveal and help rectify common mistakes made by HR practitioners in handling complex sickness absence issues
- Provide expert advice on how HR practitioners should handle long term sickness absence, recurrent short periods of absence and absence caused by mental health problems
- Advise you on how HR and line managers should interact with medical experts in order to achieve the best possible outcome when handling an OH referral
- Help to seamlessly use early intervention and prevention to make a difference to people’s lives whilst producing a return on investment for the organisation
- Advise you on how HR should interact with medical experts in order to achieve the best possible outcome in managing sickness absence issues.
