How to conduct an effective attendance review meeting—law firms

Produced in partnership with Beth Pipe FCIPD of OnLive Learning
Practice notes

How to conduct an effective attendance review meeting—law firms

Produced in partnership with Beth Pipe FCIPD of OnLive Learning

Practice notes
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This Practice Note is intended for law firms. It provides guidance on how to conduct an effective attendance review meeting.

The purpose of conducting attendance review meetings

Periodic attendance review meetings are an integral part of managing long-term sickness where an employee has been absent from work for an extended period of time (usually more than four weeks).

The purpose of an attendance review meetings is to:

  1. •

    discuss the reasons for an employee’s high absence rate, and

  2. •

    where the absence is attributable to a specific health condition, review its impact on the employee’s capability to perform the job role that they are employed to do

Where an employee’s work performance and/or absence rate is adversely affected by a long-term health condition such that the viability of their continued employment is in question, it is appropriate to manage the process through periodic attendance review meetings rather than implement disciplinary procedures.

When to conduct an attendance review meeting

Attendance review meetings are appropriate when an employee has:

  1. •

    been

Beth Pipe
Beth Pipe, FCIPD

Learning & Development Specialist/Director, OnLive Learning


Beth is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (FCIPD) and has spent over 25 years specialising in Learning and Development. During that time she has worked across a broad variety of different industries and has, for the past 15 years, worked closely with a number of well known law firms; this has involved putting in to place systems and structures to encourage, enable and track the effectiveness of learning activities. 

Adept at face to face course delivery, and always enjoying excellent feedback, Beth is also accomplished at online delivery and created OnLive Learning in response to the challenges presented by the 2020 Covid-19 restrictions.

Beth has written extensively for ³ÉÈËÓ°Òô on subjects such as Performance Management, Managing Change and Stress Management.

Away from her training delivery she is a published author writing about local history, hiking, wildlife and the outdoors and is currently working on her eleventh book. She is also an experienced radio presenter hosting two shows each week on Lake District Radio.

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Conduct definition
What does Conduct mean?

An employee's behaviour in the workplace.

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