Employee sickness and disability often prove to be the most difficult of problems that employers have to deal with. As usual, the best starting point is to have appropriate procedures, which I can draft, covering long term and intermittent absences, and also placement procedures to enable employers to deal with disabled employees in compliance with the Equality Act.
I can then provide ongoing advice with a view to helping the employer either bring the employee back to work, or to dismiss, depending on the circumstances.