About the ReIntegrate Project

Return to work

The causes of absence from work vary and include health related issues, social issues such as family demands and personal issues or some combination of these.  This part of the website deals with specifically with health related causes of absence and what can be done by employers to manage and improve their practice in relation to this issue. 

It provides a number of resources:

• Access to an online training course on managing return to work
• An introduction to good practice in managing health related absence
• Links to Irish resources that support employers and employees in managing absence and returning to work in an optimal way

The information here is particularly relevant for longer term absence, but it also contains advice on what is good practice in managing short term absence.

• Why should employers be concerned with managing return to work?
• What is Return to work?
• What is required under H&S legislation?
• What the employer needs to do?
• What the employee needs to do?
• Steps to return to work