Sickness, Absence and Holiday Leave

Managing sickness, absence and holidays is crucial for all businesses in order to maintain productivity and customer service levels, control costs, sustain positive team dynamics and ensure legal compliance. Any business should have appropriate policies, procedures and systems in place to handle planned absences, like holidays, and unplanned absence, such as absence through sickness and injury. Having a clear set of policies and documented procedure and process is essential to both protect business operations and costs but also enhancing employee wellbeing. To assist with the tasks required to mange sickness and absence efficiently Employment includes a wide range of professionally drafted and up-to-date templates employers and managers saving time and significant costs. 

The selection of documents within Dealing with Employee Sickness and Absence provides Guidance Notes and a Sickness and Absence Policy to help create a compliant, consistent and fair framework. These templates are supported by a number of forms to record and monitor sickness and related absence including a Self-Certification Form; letters in respect of unauthorised absence; letters to interact and communicate with employees during sickness and absence periods; templates covering return to work, and more.

To supplement the documents in Dealing with Employee Sickness and Absence above a further selection of templates are available manage both long-term sickness, and frequent and persistent sickness absence. Managing Long-Term and Frequent Sickness provides a range of sequential letters inviting employees to meetings and confirmation of the outcome of those meetings for both long-term sickness and frequent sickness. These professionally drafted communications will help to maintain compliance and the reduce the risk of miscommunication and procedural errors.

Also available to download are the Statutory Sickness SSP Forms. Employers must use the statutory sick forms SSP1 and SC1 (or the employers' self-certification form) for legal compliance and record-keeping when dealing with employee sickness and Statutory Sick Pay.

Details of employees' holiday entitlement and additional  details such as approval rules, carry forward provision, and sickness whilst on holiday are provided within the Contracts of Employment. To assist with effective leave management the Holiday Entitlement Documents provides a selection of templates from an Annual Leave Request Form, Holiday Carry Over Agreement to letters declining leave request(s) and non-return from holiday. These help clarify entitlements and reduce the risk of disputes.

What other templates are provided within the Employment subscription?

The Employment portfolio covers a huge range of templates from recruitment to termination of employment. The documents are updated to remain compliant with current legislation and additional documents provided to extend the tasks required to manage the employment relationship. The links below all relate to sickness and holiday but policies and letters are also available for forms of leave.

• Dealing with Employee Sickness and Absence
• Managing Long-Term and Frequent Sickness
• Statutory Sickness SSP Forms
• Holiday Entitlement Documents

Sickness, Absence and Holiday Leave is part of Employment. Just £38.50 + VAT provides unlimited downloads from Employment for 1 year.