Managing Sickness and Absence

Managing Sickness and Absence

We’re aware that in your company, managing sickness and absence can be incredibly hard. Coping with, and resolving the problem of employee absence involves you treading a fine line between showing empathy and understanding – and focusing on the needs of your business.

Examples of sickness absence could include:

  • Back pain – the largest reported reason for workplace absence
  • Flu or a stomach bug
  • Stress
  • Recurring medical conditions
  • An acute condition
  • Broken bones or limbs
  • Disability

Sickness absence is unavoidable. However, sometimes it can break confidence and trust.

Once broken, the trust between employer and employee can prove a long road to recovery. In some cases, the problem is unlikely to go away, so what’s the best solution?

HR Business Consultants – How Can We Solve the Problem?

In two ways:

1. Through helping you create a robust, viable sickness and absence strategy to avoid after-the-fact stress and worry – and reducing damage to productivity. Get in touch to discuss how we can do this for you.

2. By dealing dispassionately and professionally with your current situation, offer expert advice on its resolution, then doubling down on your future absence policy.

  • Gather fully documented information to see the full picture.
  • Expert support in helping you prepare for that “difficult conversation” – or communicating directly with the employee on your behalf, should you prefer. Our focus will be on the facts, with full legal compliance and kindness always in mind. To be fair, you may not know what you can and cannot ask, but we’re up to speed, and can take care of this.
  • Establish a tailored plan to help you move forward with best practice and a win-win solution.
  • Provide full documentation and a comprehensive paper train to protect your position, and minimise risk.
  • We’ll make sure that we only act with your full consent, and we’ll keep you up to speed every step of the way.

Do get in touch. We’re here to help.

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    Sue Zirps, Age UK Surrey
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    Neil Kent
  • I have known Jane for several years now and the advice and help I have received has always been fantastic. Jane is professional yet personable and provides information in a clear and relatable way that makes some of the HR challenges much easier to overcome. I would recommend HR Business Consultants with confidence knowing Jane will always give 100% to every client.

    Charlotte Bateup
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    Sue Gardner
  • I have known and worked with HR Business Consultants for many years. Jane is a great HR Manager and the team are energetic, smart and tenacious with a good knowledge of relevant laws. They are an asset to any company, bringing a fresh perspective to issues and common sense knowledge to all HR tasks.

    Chris Nutbeen

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