Employees are always going to get sick, but have you considered that how you deal with this plays an important role in the working environment and has financial consequences? After all, what happens to employees who have been on sick leave for over a year and have reached the maximum date? Figures from NAV show that just over half go on work assessment allowance, while around 10 percent are on disability benefit. Only two out of ten are in full-time employment six months after losing their entitlement to sickness benefit 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 employees on sick leave can be a difficult and demanding process. When should you start? What should you do? Which forms should be sent where? And not least, when? In many people's experience, the maximum date is sometimes a little abrupt.
At Sariba, we have developed a solution that takes care of exactly this, namely Sariba Care. The aim is to ensure that the employee is well looked after during the period of illness, has 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 give the managers in your company 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 every stage.
When you use Sariba Care, you will streamline sickness follow-up in your company, which both reduces the sickness absence percentage and saves the 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 practice for follow-up and facilitation of sick leave
- Reporting tools for NAV and GPs that meet legal requirements
- Automatic reminders to managers when a follow-up point is approaching the deadline
- An educational and user-friendly approach
If you want to know more, you are welcome to contact Håvard Aspenes.