Occupational Health Advisors offer support and advice to employees and employers to maintain and promote well-being in the workplace.
Occupational Health Advisors
Statutory Payment Rates 2025
Statutory Payment Rates 2025. The Government has published the statutory payment rates that will apply from April 2025.
Long Covid May Be A Disability
The employment tribunal case of Burke v Turning Point Scotland has confirmed that long Covid may be a disability which is protected under the Equality Act
Return To Work Meetings
Return to Work Meetings help combat persistent absences as staff know their absence will be noticed and will be questioned on their return to work.
Workers Are Entitled To Take Annual Leave When Off Sick
The Court of Appeal has ruled that workers are entitled to take annual leave when off sick and claim payment in lieu when their employment terminates
Record Disability Discrimination Payout for Welsh firm Jewson
Record Disability Discrimination Payout for Welsh firm Jewson, Jonathan Jones had been employed by Jewson for 22 years as a branch manager when he suffered a stroke and was dismissed due to ill health.
Dismissal decision is a managerial one, not a medical one
Overturning a tribunal’s finding of unfair dismissal, the EAT has held that an employer had properly decided on the basis of the evidence available to it, which included a report from occupational health and a clinical psychologist, that an employee was not fit to return to his stressful managerial role. His dismissal for ‘capability’ (or rather the lack of it) was fair. The EAT reiterated that the decision to dismiss an employee is a managerial one and not a medical one. An employer should make its own assessment of the risk to an employee’s health from returning to work.
Suspected Unauthorised Absence
An ET held that the heavy-handed way in which a manager dealt with suspected unauthorised absence entitled the employee to resign and claim unfair dismissal
