Due to business restructuring, you have no choice but to make a few redundancies. However, one of your chosen employees is on long-term sick leave. Can you still make their position redundant?
Published 01.05.2008
One of your employees is on long-term sick leave. A colleague has suggested that you might be able to use the legal concept of “frustration of contract” to get rid of them. Is this really possible?
If not, what should you do instead?
Published 25.01.2012
An employee regularly suffers from terrible migraines and needs to go home early. Can you require them to make up the time they miss when they are feeling better or is this problematic?
Published 24.04.2017
You need to make some staff savings. You’ve followed the correct procedures and identified the positions to go. Trouble is, one’s on maternity leave and the other’s pregnant! So you have to leave
them well alone, right?
Published 18.01.2005
A few months ago, one of your employees was signed off on long-term sickness absence. Since then, despite various efforts on your part, you’ve not heard anything from them. So is disciplinary action
now a real option here?
Published 07.03.2012
You’ve discovered that an employee who’s been off sick is working elsewhere for another employer. Does this give you automatic grounds for disciplinary action on the basis that their sickness absence
is fraudulent?
Published 27.04.2022
You’re going to hold a welfare meeting with an employee who’s currently on long-term sick leave. How should you open the meeting and what questions can you ask that are non-discriminatory?
Published 29.11.2022
You have an employee who is signed off long-term sick and, currently, showing no signs of a return. How long must you wait until it’s safe to dismiss them on incapacity grounds?
Published 26.08.2014
Where an employee is absent from work on any type of parent-related leave, you must keep them informed about any internal job vacancies which arise. But what’s the situation where an employee is on
long-term sick leave?
Published 14.02.2022