Sickness absence and sick pay

New and updated

• Type:

  Policies and procedures

  Checklist for holding stage 3 short-term sickness absence meeting

  A model checklist to set out the process to be followed during a stage 3 short-term sickness absence formal review meeting.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter informing employee of outcome of long-term sickness absence appeal hearing

  A model letter informing an employee of the outcome of a long-term sickness absence appeal hearing.

• Type:

  How to

  How to manage an employee who is absent due to sickness during pregnancy

  Practical guidance on managing an employee who is absent due to sickness during pregnancy, including avoiding pregnancy and maternity discrimination; statutory sick pay; calculating SMP; and when maternity leave will be triggered by pregnancy-related absence.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter asking employee on long-term sickness absence for preferred method of keeping in contact

  A model letter to contact an employee on long-term sickness absence asking for their preferred method of keeping in contact.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter inviting employee to attend review meeting to discuss progress of phased return to work following long-term sickness absence

  A model letter inviting an employee to attend a review meeting to discuss the progress of their phased return to work following long-term sickness absence.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter setting out arrangements for phased return to work following long-term sickness absence

  A model letter setting out arrangements for a phased return to work following long-term sickness absence.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter to employee who has not submitted medical evidence for more than seven days' sickness absence

  A model letter to provide a reminder that an employee has had a period of sickness absence of more than seven days but has failed to submit a doctor's fit note.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter reminding employee of consequences of not submitting medical evidence for more than seven days' sickness absence

  A model letter to notify an employee who has failed to respond to a previous request to provide a doctor's fit note for sickness absence lasting more than seven days of the consequences of not doing so.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter informing employee that sickness absence with no medical evidence submitted is being treated as unauthorised absence

  A model letter to notify an employee who has failed to respond to previous requests to provide a fit note for sickness absence lasting more than seven days that the matter is now to be treated as unauthorised absence.

• Type:

  Letters and forms

  Letter requesting to visit sick employee at home

  A model letter to a sick employee requesting to visit them at home.