The average worker in the UK is absent from work for 8.4 days a year.  Managing absence is important,  having a policy in place shows employees that you are committed to ensuring they attend work whenever they are fit for work.

As an employer however, you must also recognise that people do succumb to ill health and where this is the case show that you will, through consultation with the employee, manage such absence with the ultimate aim of getting that employee back to work as soon as possible.

Our Absence Management Policy covers the following:

- Principles

- Responsibilities of the employer & employee

- Procedure - what employees should do

- Sick Pay

- Statutory Sick Pay

- Permanent Health Insurance (if applicable)

- Holidays

- Attendance Monitoring (refers to Disciplinary Procedure)

- Medical Examination

- Return to Work

- Reasonable Adjustments

- Alternative Employment

- Long Term Sickness Absence

- Specific Absence (refers to Maternity Policy)

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