Telephone Tutorial: Attendance management and disability
19th November 2008, 3.00pm - 4.00pm, Past event
Promoting a healthy workplace is key to reducing sickness absence, such as providing effective reasonable adjustments for your staff. Do you feel confident in managing attendance effectively?
The CBI estimates that absence from work cost the UK economy £13.2 billion last year, as the average employee took almost seven days sick leave.
The aim of this Telephone Tutorial is to provide you with practical information on managing attendance and disability.
It will focus on the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and will give best practice guidance on managing and recording sickness absence as well as making reasonable adjustments relating to sickness absence.
The session will be led by Bela Gor, EFD's Head of legal policy.
Why attend?
This Telephone Tutorial enables you to:
- Get an overview of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) part II relating to attendance management and disability, including case law.
- Understand the main types of sickness absence, which require specific managerial procedures.
- Develop your knowledge on how to make reasonable adjustments related to sickness absence.
- Understand the different approaches to managing attendance and disability, including how to effectively record sickness absence under different categories.
- Understand when to discount disability-related sickness absence as a reasonable adjustment.
- Get up-to-date thinking and useful ideas on how to effectively manage sickness absence.
- Ask experts questions about issues you may be facing in the workplace.
Who should attend?
HR specialists, Occupational health professionals and line managers responsible for managing staff.
