Managing Ill Health and Disability
An introduction to managing ill health and disability for employers. Essential training to enable you to support your disabled staff fairly. £0 to £25
Fiona Martin, Director and Head of Employment Law at Martin Searle Solicitors, will clarify when long-term ill health issues are likely to be disabilities as defined by the Equality Act and how to ensure your employees with disabilities are treated fairly. This session coincides with Disability Matters, Martin Searle’s campaign to stamp out disability discrimination in the workplace.
We will cover:
- Managing short and long term sickness absence
- Managing mental health in the workplace
- Disability and the duty to make reasonable adjustments
- Avoiding disability discrimination in the workplace
- Absence due to stress or harassment caused by employers or colleagues
- Sickness and absence because of long Covid
- Ill health dismissals
You will learn how to manage ill health in your workplace to ensure both fairness and efficiency. You will also learn about your duties to employees who are disabled and ill. Written materials will be provided including an up-to-date Sickness Policy.
Accessibility
Please let us know if you would like closed captions during the session.
We can send slides in advance if this would help you to take part. Please email info@communityworks.org.uk
As this is a short session, we do not have a planned break. The session will be recorded and sent round afterwards if you need to step away.
Online meetings can be challenging for people – feel free to contact Community Works staff during the session through the chat box with anything that has come up.
If there is anything else we can do to make this event accessible to you, please let us know.