UNITED KINGDOM WEBINAR
Managing Sickness Absence - What Managers Need To Know
📅 Thursday 30th April | 10:30am - 11:30am
Sickness absence can be difficult to manage, particularly when dealing with mental health issues, recurring absences or long-term sickness. In this practical webinar, we will explore how managers can manage absence confidently while avoiding common legal pitfalls.
We will also explain the April 2026 changes to Statutory Sick Pay under the Employment Rights Act 2025 and what these will mean in practice for absence management.
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About This Webinar
Managing sickness absence can be one of the most challenging responsibilities for managers. Balancing operational pressures, employee wellbeing, and legal compliance is rarely straightforward – particularly when dealing with complex situations such as long-term absence, mental health conditions, or recurring short-term absences.
In this practical webinar, we’ll explore how managers can handle sickness absence confidently and fairly, while reducing the risk of grievances, discrimination claims and unfair dismissal.
Using real-life case examples and common workplace scenarios, we will look at how managers should approach difficult situations, including when absences are linked to disability, when medical advice is unclear, and when absence levels begin to affect the wider team.
We will also examine the changes to Statutory Sick Pay (SSP) introduced through the Employment Rights Act 2025 on 6 April 2026, including how the new rules affect eligibility and payment arrangements, and what this means in practice for absence management processes.
What We’ll Cover
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The key principles managers need to understand when managing sickness absence
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Managing short-term and long-term absence effectively
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When and how to involve Occupational Health
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Disability-related absence and reasonable adjustments
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How to handle tricky absence scenarios with confidence
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Practical implications of the Statutory Sick Pay reforms
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