Sickness and phased return to work – how does that work?
One of my clients has a long serving employee who has had an operation, in fact two operations on the same leg. He rushed back to work after the first operation, which meant he had to have another operation. After the second operation we were very careful about making sure he did not come back until he was fully recovered. We didn’t want him to have yet another operation. What we hadn’t reckoned with was his boredom at home. He then came to us and said that he would come in for the first two hours of the day. He didn’t want to be paid, and he would only do some work if he “felt like it” – he just wanted to get out of his house and get used again to work. And he would increase his hours “when he felt he could”.