This interactive workshop will help coach delegates in the legal, managerial and occupational health issues connected with reducing sickness absence and managing attendance. 

• Causes of absence
• The legal, managerial and occupational health issues connected with reducing sickness absence
• Costing and measuring absence
• Managing sickness absence and strategies to combat it
• Preventing the drift into long term absence
• How to deal with tricky cases - e.g. how to manage an employee who goes off sick with stress during disciplinary proceedings
• Disability discrimination
• Promoting employee health and wellbeing

• Identify the responsibilities of managers in handling absence
• Identify key absence issues
• Gain an understanding of legislation in relation to absence
• Be confident applying an absence policy in the workplace
• Be aware of the employer’s liability for unlawful discrimination