Back to Work Interview

[Jenny Manchester]

Can I just ask does anyone know the criteria of the welcome back to work procedure, apparently someone in my cousins office in Wolverhampton has been off a few days sick, she still has not been brought in for the welcome back to work interview, she has been back a week already.
I’m told if they don’t bring you in after a week its cancelled out, is this true...

[Exrep]

As far as im aware your back to work interview has a 2 week life span from the day you returned back to work.

[newpostie]

u are joking aint you?

i was off for few days then came backin this was before xmas, lineo tells me he did it with me but i insisted he hadnt anyway we did another one on monday jus gone a whole 6 weeks late whats the procedures with that? i just thought they were conpulsary without a life span!

[Exrep]

Nope i am not joking .

[Senior Service]

With or without a return to work interview your abscence is recorded electronically and will count towards stage warnings so it is often best to ask for one and get the reasons for your abscence recorded. This is especially true for accident at work interviews or when the abscence is at least in part due to Royal Mail perhaps by ignoring ATOS recommendations etc.

[Postal1]

With or without a return to work interview your abscence is recorded electronically and will count towards stage warnings so it is often best to ask for one and get the reasons for your abscence recorded. This is especially true for accident at work interviews or when the abscence is at least in part due to Royal Mail perhaps by ignoring ATOS recommendations etc.

Say is it the same everywhere as our office. we are being given stage warnings 100% if you hit the limit no matter what the reason. Even if it's a first absence and dda related but over the accepted limit?

[BIG AL]

As far as im aware your back to work interview has a 2 week life span from the day you returned back to work.

That's a laugh!
One of the guys who works at the frame behind, me asked our DOM when he was getting a RTW interview.
He was told 'I don't have time to chase all over the office looking for you'
It was deemed not important to the DOM.
We are all regarded as just a number.

I myself had to go off special leave a few weeks ago as my wife was rushed into hospital.
When I returned, not 1 of 5 Managers asked me how she was!
This is our caring employer!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stand Free!

[Exrep]

I suppose then it depends on how your DOM deems the RTW on its importance .

[DGP1]

brothermagrew posted up a tribunal result which dealt with this, I'll see if I can find it.

[DGP1]

I wouldn't bank on it - a wee snippet from a recent unsuccessful unfair dismissal (NI) case.

Also at hearing the claimant alleged the respondent had failed to conduct a return to work interview and that this had amounted to a procedural unfairness in their approach to the decision to dismiss him so as to undermine that decision. A return to work interview subsequent to every absence was recommended on the management checklist in the Guide to Managers, attendant on the managing absence policy.

The purpose of the return to work interview was to support an employee’s return to work and its role within the managing absence policy was to identify causes of concern that could be addressed to avoid further absence. Additionally the notes from any return to work interviews were considered as part of the management checklist of all documents sent to transactions services for consideration before Stage 3 is triggered.

The Tribunal noted that although no such return to work interview was conducted with the claimant the Tribunal found that the failure to do so and the failure to have generated a document which formed part of a check list did not amount to a procedural step in the claimant’s dismissal that had not been adhered to by the respondents.

This is the post.