Workplace rehabilitation.

[POSTMAN]

I'll post some bits and bobs and the link,it's a bit long winded have a shuftie and see what you think.


UK businesses are losing billions of pounds due to sickness absence, yet remain sceptical about the savings that can be made from workplace rehabilitation. But with increasing evidence of hard financial benefits, can companies continue to ignore it, asks Ana Paula Nacif

With UK plc losing billions of pounds every year due to employee sickness absence, the business case for workplace rehabilitation and adequate absence management is gaining momentum.

According to the Confederation of British Industry and Axa’s Absence and Labour Turnover Survey 2007, companies are losing £13.4bn a year in direct absence costs and absences have increased from an average of 6.6 days per employee in 2005 to seven days in 2006.

If absence is the Achilles’ heel of many UK employers, the good news, backed by increasingly solid evidence, is that companies can stop and turn back the tide by combining an effective absence policy with rehabilitation programmes.


The Royal Mail Group is one such employer. Its rehabilitation scheme, which has been praised by the government and used as a case study for the Health and Safety Executive, was set up three years ago to benefit all of its staff members.

“If employees have a problem, we treat them because, if they don’t come to work, it is our problem,â€

[TrueBlueTerrier]

[quote]If employees have a problem, we treat them because, if they don’t come to work, it is our problem,â€

[waffler]

You're spot on there TrueBlueTerrier, here is two of the most extreme examples of two of my fellow posties being 'chased'. One was in hospital with a machine keeping him alive (fortunately he pulled through made a full recovery and came back) when screw who can't run a bath, let alone an office phoned his partner asking her 'When's he coming back, we need these jobs covering' the screw couldn't even grasp the seriousness of what they were both going through. Another chap had done twenty years with virtually no sick leave, had six weeks off for an op and recovery and got a letter about his poor attendance. These happened a few years ago. When I had my last sick leave I never got a return to work and then a questionnaire comes asking what I thought of it. Needless to say I told them, expect it went straight in the bin.

[dongash]

hi, at our office they are doing their best to get rid of a lad who is on dialysis! he is on the list for a transplant! he already has a stage one for his attendance.another lad had a hernia operation and was cut open from his chest to his abdomen,and he is on a stage two! what a joke, tell that to the"man in pink". regards dongash opg macclesfield sk