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Created by Freya Guest
Created on Nov 11, 2024

Remove mandatory end date on absence and allow us to edit the return to work template

Please can you remove the end date for sickness so we can have open sickness? Having to put a random end date or the end date on the same day can cause a sickness to be missed or a return to work not being completed. By having open sicknesses and adding a section on the front dashboard of the admin overview, it would then help to see any open sicknesses where a return to work hasn't been completed or we have had not confirmation.

Please can you also allow us to edit the return to work form?

Describe the Challenge Create a much smoother process for absence recording/monitoring - admin
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  • Joanne Crook
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    Mar 5, 2025

    Absolutely agree with this, have the sickness open ended until its actually closed. Otherwise like today, an employee hasn't returned after being off sick yesterday but will have already received a notification to complete self cert/return to work - its unprofessional

  • Abigail Bowley
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    Jan 22, 2025

    This would be helpful, especially when running sickness absence reports for payroll. Currently if someone is off sick managers don't bother putting it in until they return, which then means if a report is run it doesn't give up to date information and someone may be over/under paid when they shouldn't.

  • Rachel Boyce
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    Nov 18, 2024

    Completely agree, I have managers adding a new sickness absence each day creating multiple occasions when the employee is off for over a day sick.

    I have seen in other systems I have a sickness continue forever into the future until the end date and end date not being able to be set for a future date to save people putting a date in until the employee returns.