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Absenteeism: Managing employee sickness
Laura Garner offers some tips for employers when dealing with sickness absence and reviews recent case law developments ‘It is one thing for an employer to discover general performance or disciplinary concerns while an employee is off sick. However, what if the disciplinary issues relate to the sickness absence itself?’ There is no doubt that …
Cases Referenced
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- British Home Stores Ltd v Burchell [1978] UKEAT/108/78/2007
- Griffiths v The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions [2014] UKEAT/0372/13; [2015] EWCA Civ 1265
- Metroline West Ltd v Mr I Ajaj [2015] UKEAT/0295/15/RN
- Private Medicine Intermediaries Ltd and ors v Hodkinson [2016] UKEAT/0134/15