Illness
Return to work after illness with practical strategies for building confidence and managing ongoing health needs. Learn about phased returns and workplace adjustments that support your wellbeing.
Are Larger Companies More Supportive?
Returning to work after a period of illness is always tricky, with issues of how you will cope with the change, whether your role will have changed or diffic...
Being on Sick Leave When Redundancies Are Made
The issues surrounding sick leave and redundancy are complex. Perhaps during more economically prosperous times the advice would be more focused on ensuring...
Dealing With Criticism From Colleagues When You Are Ill
We would all hope that, if a colleague was ill, we would be supportive. We would also hope that if we were suffering from an illness, our colleagues would do...
Employment Regulations When You Are Ill
When you are ill the last thing you want to be worried about is your employment situation. Workers rights in the UK are quite well balanced for the good of t...
Feeling Tired at Work Because of Illness
It is unlikely that you will be able to wait until you are feeling totally better to return to work after illness, for practical, emotional or financial reas...
How to Handle an Unsympathetic Boss
Dealing with an illness is difficult enough without having to cope with an unsympathetic boss too. While you would hope that your boss would try as hard as p...
How Your Work Priorities May Change After Illness
When major events happen in our lives, such as getting married, the death of a parent or a long term illness, it is no surprise that our priorities can chang...
Informing Your Employer You Are Absent
Unfortunately, illness is a part of life. We all would prefer to be fit and healthy until way into our nineties, but it doesn’t always work out like that....
Long Term Illness: Are You Ready to go Back to Work?
There are no rights and wrongs about going back to work after a long term illness; you can only do what feels right for you. There are, however, some guideli...
Return to Work Part Time After Illness
Returning to work after a lengthy period of illness can be daunting and emotional. Many people feel as though their priorities have changed following their e...
The Physical Effects Of Illness in The Workplace
When you return to work after recovering from an illness it is unlikely that you will be totally better. Many illnesses take some time to leave your system c...
What if Your Job has Changed?
However sympathetic and understanding your employer is about your return to work following an illness, they are still focused on the bottom line. Depending o...
When Colleagues Are Embarrassed About Your Illness
Returning to work after having to take time off to recover from an illness can have many unforeseen issues. It’s not just about getting better and then dea...
When Do You Need a Doctor's Note?
The whole ethos of the workplace sick note has changed recently, with the term ‘sick note’ being dropped in favour of ‘fit note’. As the new name sug...