Retaining employees who acquire a disability: a guide for employers

Author: NDA

Publication Year: 2015

Contents

Key steps: Retaining employees who acquire a disability
Introduction
Acquiring a disability
Employer obligations
Key legal provisions
Employer supports
Intreo
Intreo Supports for Employers
Specialist advice
Partial capacity benefit scheme
Focus on capacity
Formal policies
Your workplace policies
Key policies
Communicate your policies
Build your capacity to support employees with disabilities
Alertness to emerging issues
Training resources
Contents
Key steps to retaining employees
1. Early intervention
2. Keep in touch
3. Return to work assessment
4. Return to work plan
5. Reasonable accommodation
6. Option for phased return
7. What to tell colleagues
8. Reintegration into work
9. Progressing a career
10. Performance management
What if the employee cannot return to their previous job?
Redeployment
The unsuccessful outcome
Useful Contacts
Specialist disability resources
Employment resources
Useful References

Description

This guide provides employers with information about how to help employees who have acquired a disability to stay in work. This guidance is based on research evidence and good practice. The guidance is intended to be useful to workplaces of any size. As organisations differ in size, in structure and in other ways, a good return to work policy will be specific to an individual organisation’s needs.

Format	Download
Keywords	disability, employers
Publisher	National Disability Authority
Classification	disability
Pages	44
Categories:	Irish Content
External Link	http://nda.ie/