Managing Sickness Absence Policy

The Managing Sickness Absence Policy has been updated into the new Policy format and to incorporate Audit recommendations and feedback from a recent Senior Leadership workshop focussed on absence.

The changes include:

• Inclusion of a How to Guide for Leave Abatement
• Improved guidance on absence recording
• Improved guidance on recording work related absence
• How to Guides for Managing Short Term and Long Term absence
• Guidance on how Covid Related absence should be treated for monitoring purposes
• Inclusion of an employee contact form for recording contact with employees on long term absence
• Introduction of a Workplace Adjustment Passport for recording agreed adjustments

We would like you to confirm your understanding of these changes and welcome any feedback.

If you have any queries about the survey, please email hrhelpdesk@falkirk.co.uk