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Course Overview Most employers and occupational health staff are faced with difficult decisions concerning fitness for work, whether this be recruitment decisions or decisions concerning a return to work after a spell of sickness absence. The impact of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995 has made itself felt in many important decisions coming from the Employment Tribunals. This leading one-day seminar will help you answer the following types of questions: - Would it be lawful to refuse to recruit someone with a previous history of mental illness?
- What action can an employer take if he finds out that an employee has lied at the pre-employment interview about a significant ill health problem?
- What can an employer do if he suspects an employee is malingering or ‘cheating’ whilst off sick?
- Is it lawful for an employer to use the absence record of an employee with a disability in a redundancy selection exercise?
- What is the evidence base for effectively helping employees with common mental health problems?
Audience - Experienced practitioners who wish to update themselves in areas of occupational health and the law
- HR managers
- Occupational health physicians
- Nurses
- Line managers
- Health and safety managers
Skills Gained This one-day seminar will help you: - Improve your understanding of the law and good practice in dealing with ill health cases
- Gain an understanding of the ethical issues of confidentiality and consent and what your doctors and nurses can and cannot tell you
- Receive the most up-to-date information on the new data protection rules and guidance from the Information Commissioner on worker's health and medical records
- Learn about the impact of the Disability Discrimination Act 1995, the new DDA regulations 2004 and the most recent case law
- Model precedents for sickness absence and other ill health policies
- Have your questions answered by two leading experts in the field of occupational medicine and the law
- Return to your company and implement some practical solutions to difficult problems
Course Outline Medical ethics and the DPA 1998 - Confidentiality and informed consent, sensitive data under 5.2 of DPA 1998
- Medical reports and disclosure issues
- Difficult situations
Age discrimination Regulations 2006 - health and age and recent case law - Bloxham vs Freshfields
- ECJ mandatory retirement age
Stress, anxiety and depression - how to deal with these issues - Intel vs DAW
- Implications
- Making reasonable adjustments under the Disability
- Discrimination Act 1995 as amended
- Examples of reasonable adjustments
- Sickness and stress
- Triggered by discipline or performance investigations
- Drafting a sick pay clause to deal with 'stress' absences caused by disciplinary issues
- Offering options to those who go off with stress to avoid a disciplinary hearing - latest Guidance from ACAS
- Conduct during sickness absence
- Using private detectives and Human Rights Act 1998 and the use of covert surveillance
- HSE Stress Management Standards - how to adapt them to your own organisation the law and medical issues for 2008
- How to deal with stress; focus groups, risk assessments, round table discussions, policies and procedures and using clinical psychologists
- The policy at EDF Energy
Bullying at work - Latest case law
- Practical tips on how to deal with bullying
Sickness absence - getting staff back to work - Understanding sickness absence - recent case law and good practice
- Obtaining medical records and conflicting reports
- Assessing medical reports
- Employees who refuse to give consent to disclosure of medical records and medical reports
- Hanlon vs. Kirklees Borough Council
- MED 3 - are they meaningless and can you challenge them?
- How to deal with malingerers
- Drawing up an effective policy
- Conflicting medical advice
How to assess fitness to return to work - Asking the doctor the right questions
- Expert evidence
How to use your OHP service to assist in short-term, unrelated sickness absence cases and the acute or long term sickness cases - Early retirement on ill health grounds
- Permanent Health Insurance cases
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