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Handling Sickness Absence in Your Charity: A Simple, Practical Guide
Sickness absence is one of the most common and often the most frustrating issues charities face.
When it isn’t handled well, it can quickly become time-consuming, disruptive, and costly. On top of that, poor management of absence can expose your organisation to legal and financial risk, especially where disability or long-term health conditions are involved.
Join WorkNest’s Employment Law and HR experts for this free, 60-minute webinar as they explain why effective sickness absence management matters, what the law requires, and the practical steps you can take to manage absence in a fair, structured way.
What we'll cover:
Unexpected absence can slow down work, stretch your team, and create real operational challenges. When it isn’t addressed consistently, it can lead to rising costs, low morale, and uncertainty about the best next steps.
Many employers are unsure how to approach conversations, what they can ask for, or where the legal boundaries sit. However, poor handling of sickness absence can lead to grievances, discrimination allegations, and even unfair dismissal claims.
This session will help you understand your responsibilities, manage absences in a structured and supportive way, and avoid the pitfalls that catch many employers out.
You'll get clear guidance on:
Why managing sickness absence properly in your charity matters
Your legal duties, including statutory sick pay, fit notes and record-keeping
How to manage short-term absence
What good management of long-term absence looks like
Practical steps you can take to reduce absence across your organisation
Common scenarios and what a fair, lawful process looks like in practice
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Who should attend?
This webinar is designed for:
Charitable organisation leaders
Anyone tired of HR distracting them from running their organisation
Can’t attend live? Register and ask your questions anyway – we’ll send you the on-demand recording after the session.
Why does this matter?
Because every hour spent dealing with HR issues is an hour not spent on your charities service, innovation, or strategy.
WorkNest helps charities:
Stay compliant without worry
Build confident, capable managers
Improve retention and reduce hiring costs
Create a motivated, productive workforce
Replace admin chaos with simple, efficient systems
We take the HR strain so you can focus on scaling and supporting your charity, not firefighting people problems.
Can’t attend live? Register and ask your questions anyway – we’ll send you the on-demand recording after the session.
Our Employment Law service gives you access to a dedicated team that understands your business.
We’ll help you stay compliant as the law changes and support you with day-to-day people management – without the worry of hourly costs.
We’ll act as an extension of your team, giving you:
Unlimited legally compliant advice
Legally compliant contracts and handbooks
Tribunal support should you need it
Fixed, transparent pricing
Having attended a few WorkNest webinars, I am always impressed with the no-nonsense, well-balanced guidance they provide. Their advice gives me confidence to deal with situations that may arise in an appropriate way and the fact that they follow up with answers to all the questions posed during the webinar is an added bonus.
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Having attended a few WorkNest webinars, I am always impressed with the no-nonsense, well-balanced guidance they provide. Their advice gives me confidence to deal with situations that may arise in an appropriate way and the fact that they follow up with answers to all the questions posed during the webinar is an added bonus.
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