FoI Number
2023-248
Subject
Retirement on Ill Health Grounds
Date Received
27/07/2023
Request and Response

In financial years 2022/23 (where the previous release of information was not the complete year) and 2023/24:

See attached spreadsheet

  1. How many employees have left your organisation due to ill health?

Of these how many have been

  1. Dismissed on ill health grounds
  2. Retired on ill health grounds
  3. How many employees in your organisation are absent due to long-term ill-health?

Of these, how many

  1. Are absent due to “long Covid” (i.e. with a diagnosis)
  2. Are absent due to symptoms comparable to “long covid” (i.e. without a diagnosis)
  3. Of the employees who have been dismissed on ill health grounds, how many of these
  4. Were dismissed due to “long Covid”, (i.e. with a diagnosis)
  5. Were dismissed due to symptoms comparable to “long covid” (i.e. without a diagnosis)
  6. Of the employees who have been retired on ill health grounds, how many of these
  7. Were retired due to “long Covid”, (i.e. with a diagnosis)
  8. Were retired due to symptoms comparable to “long covid” (i.e. without a diagnosis)
  9. How many personal injury claims your organisation has received from employees who have long Covid
  10. Finally, please provide your sickness and absence policy for managing employee absence due to “long Covid”