SICKNESS AND HEALTH POLICY

WHEN TO USE THIS DOCUMENT

 This policy sets out the way in which an organisation deals with and manages time off for sickness and other health reasons.

 All of our policies combine professional legal and personnel / HR knowledge with practical experience in business to provide an easy to use policy which meets with legal responsibilities and obligations.

 A written policy like this one helps employees to understand the procedures to be followed. It also explains the rights and responsibilities of both the employer and the employee. If properly followed, a policy will also help ensure that the employer complies with all their legal duties and obligations whilst protecting employees.

 Absence from work costs individual employers huge amounts of money and worry during any financial year. The policy also deals with the required sickness records to ensure that statutory sick pay is properly dealt with.

THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING:

 This written policy deals with procedures for sickness and health reasons, including for maternity reasons.

 It covers the issues that such policies need to deal with including:

• Policy aims and training.
• Employer's and employee's responsibilities.
• Sickness.
• Long-term sickness.
• Absences for maternity reasons.
• Medical appointments (doctors, dentists etc).
• Procedure for dealing with sickness, including persistent short term and long-term sickness.
• Return to work procedures and interviews.
• Step by step action return to work plan.

HOW TO USE THIS DOCUMENT

 This is a MS Word document and is easy to use. The document uses blue text to provide extra guidance and notes and green text where you will customise your document to suit the circumstances in which it is used.
 

File Type: Word File