It will always be the case that employees get sick, but have you thought about that your handling of this both plays an important role for the working environment and has financial consequences? Because what really happens to employees who have been on sick leave for over a year and reached the maximum date? Figures from NAV show that slightly more than half are on work assessment allowances, while around 10 per cent are on disability benefits. Only two out of ten are in full employment six months after they lost their right to sick pay from NAV. An overview of developments over the past four years shows that the figures are stable throughout the period.
For many people, following up on sick leave can be perceived as a difficult and demanding process. When to start? What to do? Which forms should be submitted where? And not least when? One experience many people do is that the mak date sometimes comes on a bit abruptly.
We at Sariba have developed a solution that safeguards this, namely Sariba Care. The goal is for the employee to be well looked after during the illness period, get a good return to the workplace and as short a period of illness as possible. Better follow-up of sick colleagues provides both a safer working environment and increased well-being in the workplace.
Follow-up of employees on sick leave
With Sariba Care, you provide the leaders in your company with a tool that helps them follow up employees on sick leave. The solution guides managers through the sickness absence process and ensures that the authorities' requirements, rules and deadlines are met at all stages.
When you use Sariba Care, you will streamline follow-up of sickness in your company, which both reduces sickness absence rates and saves your company significant costs.
Calculations made by NHO (the Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise) show that the average cost of sick leave is NOK 2,900 per day, and the reimbursement from NAV (Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration) beyond the employer period is only NOK 2,400. With a reduced sickness absence rate, your company will achieve large cost savings
When you use Sariba Care you get:
• Guidance and best practices for follow-up and adaptation of sickness absence
• Reporting tools against NAV and a GP that meet legal requirements
• Automatic reminders to managers when a follow-up point approaches the deadline
• An educational and user-friendly approach
If you want to know more, you are welcome to contact Håvard Aspenes.