Absence management
Absence Management
Protect the needs of your business and ensure legal compliance as an employer, with the right absence management policy and implementation. Managing employee absence effectively is about minimising the impact to your business of the short and long-term absences that can, and do, happen. The delicate balance between supporting employees, and ensuring your level of legal risk is zero, needs to be struck, while protecting your organisation against the detrimental effects of staff absence.
An absence management policy put in place by a business needs to be right for that particular business and its goals, as well as align with its internal values and behaviours as an employer. Where an employee develops a serious medical condition, there can be a need by the organisation to manage the employee’s absence promptly, to minimise any negative impact on operations and productivity. But there is a danger that if not managed, in accordance with the right procedures, for the business, and for the employee, the organisation is open to legal scrutiny.
As experienced employment lawyers, we can help you to get the right absence management policy and approach in place, putting you outside of any legal risk and ensure you’re doing the right thing for your business and employees.
How we help you
- We work with you to understand your business and establish your objectives, with particular regard to employee absenteeism. We look in detail at how different types of absences potentially affect your operation and how they can be mitigated by the right absence management policy and approach.
- We focus on achieving the right balance between meeting your organisational needs, and your legal compliance, and minimising risk as an employer. Whether you want to remove employees at a certain stage of absence or facilitate their returns to work, we can help you to achieve it the right way.
- With our pragmatic, commercial approach, and straightforward advice, you will have a working absence management policy and process that best suits your business, and know how to implement it.
If you think you need help to better manage employee absence, with a more effective absence management policy, speak to our experienced employment law team. We are here and ready to help, with an initial discussion about the best approach for your business.
