Attendance review meetings (ARMs)—FAQs—law firms

Produced in partnership with Beth Pipe FCIPD of OnLive Learning

Precedents

Attendance review meetings (ARMs)—FAQs—law firms

Produced in partnership with Beth Pipe FCIPD of OnLive Learning

Precedents

1. Does an attendance review meeting (ARM) mean I’m being disciplined for my absence?

No. An ARM does not constitute Disciplinary action and does not normally form part of any Disciplinary process.

2. What’s the purpose of an ARM?

The purpose of an ARM is to discuss the health problems causing you to have a high rate of absence and to explore what can be done to help improve your health, reduce your absence rate and facilitate your safe return to work if you are off on Long-term sickness.

3. Will everyone in the firm have an ARM?

It is the Policy of the firm to conduct an ARM when an employee has been absent from work on long-term sickness exceeding [four weeks’ OR [insert duration]] duration or where an employee has a high rate of sporadic absence amounting to a total exceeding [four weeks OR [insert duration]] where the absence is caused by an underlying health problem.

4. Who will conduct my

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 ��ɫ�� 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.

Jurisdiction(s):

United Kingdom

Key definition:

Disciplinary definition

What does Disciplinary mean?

A disciplinary situation is a situation where breaches of rules or codes of behaviour or discipline are corrected or punished. Equally, where an employer's expectations about the way in which a job is to be performed, or its minimum standards, are not met, that may also give rise to a disciplinary situation in respect of the poor or inadequate performance that arises. Disciplinary situations therefore include misconduct or poor performance.

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