Absenteeism & Sick Leave Abuse

Workshop dates:
Johannesburg: For future dates email customerservice@norcazacademy.co.za
Durban North: For future dates email customerservice@norcazacademy.co.za
Cape Town: For future dates email customerservice@norcazacademy.co.za
Course fee:
Single: R3,500.00 (R3,990.00 incl. VAT)
Group booking of 3 delegates or more : R3,000.00 (R3,420.00 incl. VAT) per delegate – T&Cs apply.
In-House Training sessions: available on request – send an e-mail with specifications to admin@norcazacademy.co.za.
Who Should Attend?
- Executive Directors of small to medium businesses
- HR and IR professionals
- HR Practitioners and Consultants
- Line Managers and Supervisors
- Executives and others responsible for labour law matters
PROGRAMME CONTENT
Module 1: Absenteeism – the nature of the problem
- Why people claim sickness
- Absenteeism in the work place context
- Defining illness
- Illness behaviour according to the employee / employer
- The doctor as the ‘gatekeeper’
- The importance of work
- Alienation of employees
- Interventions to reduce absenteeism
- Procedural, preventative and reintegration measures
Module 2: Legal aspects of work place absenteeism due to sickness
- Rights and responsibilities
- Leave and absenteeism
- Absence with and without permission
- Some principles
- Public holidays
- Deserters and Termination of service of deserters
- Sick leave provisions in the BCEA
- The Labour Relations Act and LRA requirements
- Previous test for incapacity
- Code requirements
- Labour Court: Key words
- Temporary ill health
- Procedure for temporary and permanent INCAPACITY
- Other procedures for temporary or permanent incapacity
- Sick leave abuse
- What is a valid medical certificate?
Module 3: Psychosocial factors in the work place and management of absenteeism
- Importance of work and personal wholeness
- The work relationship
- Conflict potential
- Interventions to reduce absenteeism
- Procedural, preventative and reintegration measures
Module 4: Industrial relations and dispute resolution
- Factors regulating the relationship
- Institutions
- Contract of employment
- Termination of the contract of employment
- The two stages of conflict
- Conflict and power
- Transformation of conflict
- Grievances and discipline
- Value of effective procedures
- Prerequisites for good grievance procedures
- Discipline
- Principles of fairness and legality
- Substantive and Procedural fairness
- CCMA, Labour Court and bargaining councils
- Conciliation and arbitration
Module 5: Various forms of absenteeism
- Absenteeism Custom and Practice
- Medical Absenteeism & Sick Leave
- Sangoma sick notes – the Traditional Healer factor
- HIV/AIDS and Absenteeism
- Draft Code of Good Practice – Incapacity
- Absenteeism related to Alcohol misuse
- Absenteeism and Traditional Healers
- Absence due to Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Family Responsibility/Compassionate leave
- Absence due to Annual, Study and Unpaid Leave
- Shop Stewards Leave
- Elective Leave
- Absence during Notice Period
- Deserting / Absconding
- Relevant Policies & Procedures