Long Term Sickness Absence
Our team of Employment Solicitors will help you with your legal needs concerning long term sickness absence.
Sick leave results in low productivity, higher costs to businesses and the development of a sickness absence culture and given the current economic climate, this can be potentially crippling to companies.
Where an employee’s level of sickness absence may eventually require the employer to consider the possibility of dismissal, the dismissal will only be deemed as fair if the employer has followed a series of stringent procedures.
Our experience is that often employers are wary of tackling sickness absence or indeed how to tackle, whereas employees often have a false impression of what employers can and can’t do. (“They shouldn’t contact me whilst I’m off sick, should they?”)
Failing to follow these correct procedures could result in an unfair dismissal claim, a discrimination claim related to disability and/or a claim for breach of contract.
Our specialist Employment Solicitors can advise on the best course of action to take in dealing with long term sickness absence to help ensure that no expensive tribunal claim results from any potential dismissal.
Our specialist Employment Solicitors can provide advice to you through each step of this process empowering you to tackle the problem and therefore minimising the risk of an expensive Tribunal claim.
