Sickness and Incapacity
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| 1 | Sickness and incapacity: toolkit A toolkit to guide users around PLC Employment materials on sickness at work, including practice notes on managing sickness absence, letters of instruction for obtaining medical reports, and tribunal materials dealing with unfair dismissal and disability discrimination. | Practice note: overview | Maintained |
| 2 | Managing sickness absence A note outlining the key legal and practical considerations involved in managing and dismissing sick and disabled employees. Topics covered include operating a capability procedure, frustration of contract and permanent health insurance. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 3 | Obtaining a medical report on an employee This practice note considers the circumstances in which an employer might need to obtain a medical report on employees or workers and the steps that an employer must take when requesting a medical report (whether from a general practitioner, a specialist consultant, a company doctor or an occupational health specialist). It considers the impact of the Access to Medical Reports Act 1988, the Data Protection Act 1988 and the use of medical reports in tribunal proceedings. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 4 | Sick pay This note considers common issues related to sick pay, including an employee's eligibility for statutory sick pay and the exercise of discretion in relation to contractual sick pay. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 5 | Smoke-free workplaces: implications for employers A practice note providing guidance to employers on the Health Act 2006 which requires workplaces to be smoke-free. The note deals with employment issues arising from an employer's implementation of the ban, such as formulating a no-smoking policy, dealing with smoking breaks, and disciplining employees who breach the ban. A detailed overview of the regulatory framework requiring enclosed and substantially enclosed public premises and workplaces to be smokefree and requiring landlords to display no-smoking signs is provided in PLC Property, Practice note, Smoke-free premises. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 6 | Stress in the workplace A note outlining the legal framework surrounding employer's liability for stress in the workplace. The note also provides practical suggestions on identifying unacceptable levels of stress and guidance for employers on how to manage this growing problem. | Practice notes | Maintained |
| 7 | Swine flu and the workplace A note which provides employers with action points when dealing with issues raised by swine flu. | Practice notes | 06-Jan-2011 |