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title: "Webinar: How would you manage an employee with long COVID?"
description: How can employers manage long-term absence safely and sensitively in a post-pandemic world? Watch our webinar with employment solicitor Toby Pochron.
---

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# Webinar: Managing long-term absence

## How would you manage an employee with long COVID?

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed how workplaces respond to sickness and other forms of absence in a variety of ways. This includes how organisations handle long-term absence with the rise of the syndrome called long COVID, which can have a lasting impact on an employee's health and wellbeing. So, how can employers manage long-term absence safely, legally and sensitively in a post-pandemic world? In this webinar, Freeths LLP Senior Associate, Toby Pochron outlines:

- The impact of the pandemic and long COVID on how organisations manage absence
- How to support employees who are absent long-term and help reintroduce them to the workforce effectively
- The legal issues to consider in relation to long-term absence and disability discrimination

#### Further resources

Get a copy of Toby's PowerPoint slideshow on [Long-term absence: managing employees with long COVID](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/hubfs/Managing%20long%20covid%20and%20Webinar%20-%20Slides(20942646.1).pdf).

#### Related resources

Webinar: [How to prevent discrimination and protect your business](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/webinars/prevent-discrimination-protect-business)

Article: [How to manage employees with long COVID](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/blog/how-to-manage-employees-long-covid)

Article: [How to assess reasonable adjustments for a disabled employee](https://www.myhrtoolkit.com/blog/assessing-reasonable-adjustments-disabled-employee)

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