Back to Basics - Managing Absence

Join us for a practical webinar that goes beyond a simple overview of process.

We will explore the grey areas of absence management and share strategies to help you approach challenges with confidence.

Managing absence can be one of the most difficult areas to get right. We often see challenges where the process feels straightforward in theory, but in practice, real-life scenarios make things more complicated

• This free one-hour session will cover tricky issues such as:
  Managing repeated short-term sickness absences and their impact on performance.
• Moving from informal to formal processes.
• What to do when you have overlapping performance and health issues.
• Navigating stress-related absences triggered by workplace conflict or processes.
• Determining appropriate levels of contact with employees on a long-term absence and responding if they are unwilling to engage.
• Recognising when mental ill-health requires a different management approach.
• Understanding when it may be fair to dismiss an employee who is too ill to work.
• What to do if you doubt the genuineness of the sickness absence.

Speakers for this session

Jo Bradbury - Senior HR Consultant, Narrow Quay HR

Andrew Miles - HR Consultant, Narrow Quay HR