Managing an employee who is absent due to injury or incapacity is one of the most difficult aspects of being an HR professional.
Watch this Q&A-style webcast for a deep dive into some nuanced and complex challenges.
Mallesons senior consultant Brett Feltham and HR Daily editor Jo Knox will discuss:
- independent medical examinations;
- reinstatement obligations when injured employees become fit for work;
- return-to-work considerations after psychological injuries;
- communicating with employees who are absent;
- cases demonstrating pitfalls and best practices; and more.
Watching this webcast counts as one CPD hour.
HR Daily Premium members are invited to submit questions for the presenter via our contact form, prior to Friday 28/8/26.
About the presenter:
Based in Mallesons' Sydney practice, Brett Feltham is an accredited specialist in employment and industrial relations law, with more than 25 years' experience advising on employment, workplace relations, discrimination and workplace health and safety issues.
As the co-chair of the Law Society of NSW's Employment Law Committee, Brett has a leading role in lobbying and advocating on employment issues on behalf of the legal profession and more generally.
Brett has delivered previous webinars for HR Daily on topics including psychosocial hazards; flexible work requests; restructures and redundancies; fixed-term contracts; Respect@Work; and the 'HR hot spots' series since 2018.