Managing Long-Term Sickness & Capability Fairly and Effectively

What the session will cover:

• When absence becomes a capability issue, and how to spot it: where the line sits between short-term sickness and genuine capability concerns, plus how conduct and capability differ (and why mixing them up undermines a fair process).
• Reasonable adjustments and occupational health: what “reasonable” means in practice, and how to get the most out of occupational health referrals when reports raise more questions than answers.
• Mental health and medical evidence: how to handle mental health related absence with sensitivity, alongside what you can ask for (and need consent for) when it comes to medical evidence.
• SSP reforms and managing intermittent absence: what’s changing with Statutory Sick Pay, and why recurring short absences can be harder to manage fairly than one long spell.
• Fair dismissal process and risk areas: the key stages of a fair process, and where organisations most often trip up.

Many organisations don’t realise how much risk sits in this area until they’re already in the middle of a case. This session helps you get ahead of it, before things become difficult.

Whether you manage one absence case a year or several, this affects how you protect your people and your organisation.