Lunch & Learn: Managing Sickness and Absence: Balancing Care and Control
Overview
Managing sickness and absence can be one of the trickiest parts of people management — especially when you’re trying to balance empathy with consistency. This session will help you understand the key principles behind fair, lawful and compassionate absence management, giving you the confidence to support employees while also protecting the organisation.
Who Should Attend
- HR professionals
- Managers and team leaders
- Business owners
- Anyone responsible for managing people, processes or culture
- Anyone looking to build confidence and practical skills in this topic
Takeaways
- A clearer understanding of different types of absence and how to manage them
- Practical tools for supportive conversations with boundaries
- Confidence to address patterns of absence early
- A framework for consistent, fair and legally compliant processes
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Highlights
- 1 hour
- Online
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Location
Online event
Understanding different types of absence and why it matters
We explore short-term, long-term and intermittent absences — what each pattern means, why it happens, and how the management approach should differ.
Striking the balance between empathy and appropriate boundaries
Guidance on supporting employees with genuine health concerns while maintaining fairness, expectations and organisational needs.
How to conduct effective return-to-work conversations
A step-by-step look at the purpose of return meetings, how to approach them, what to ask, and how they set the tone for future attendance.
Organized by
Gateway HR Limited
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