Employee absence can range from long and short term sickness absence to annual leave and family leave. It is vital to the success of any business that all types of employee absence are managed and monitored effectively.
How Hill Dickinson can help
Our employment lawyers have a thorough understanding of the issues involved in managing absence and can provide expert advice and support in the following areas:
- Drafting sickness and other absence policies and procedures
- Monitoring short and long term absence
- Managing and tackling persistent sickness absence
- Occupational health measures and obtaining medical evidence
- Disability discrimination issues
- Avoiding unfair dismissal claims
- Management training on how to spot issues and address them
Key contacts
Head of Practice Group: Employment and Pensions
Jeff Middleton
- Telephone
- +44 (0) 161 817 7260
- jeff.middleton@hilldickinson.com
In addition to a raft of internal promotions, Hill
Dickinson LLP’s Liverpool office also acquired a team of four from
Halliwells led by Kerstie Skeaping, adding significant experience
in tribunal hearings, and in trade union matters and industrial
relations. Jeff Middleton now leads the team.
This
team has a strong reputation for advising NHS clients, and it
continues to grow on the corporate side, too. Recent highlights
include representing the Law Society in High Court proceedings
relating to TUPE. Other notable clients include Leeds Teaching
Hospitals NHS Trust, Iceland Foods and the North West Development
Agency.
