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    Return-to-Work Program (BEM)

    We support you on the road to recovery!

    The Return-to-Work Program (Betriebliches Eingliederungsmanagement, BEM) comprises measures of prevention, workplace health promotion, and rehabilitation. It enables employees recovering from long-term or severe illness to transition back into work—step-by-step if necessary. Eligible employees benefit from the BEM program in various ways, in particular through

    • inspection of their workplace conditions;
    • modifications of tasks and responsibilities to their specific health needs;
    • and support, as soon as there are signs of a recurrent or new illness.

    Our goal is to provide guidance for your smooth return to work.

    How to participate in the BEM program

    If you have been unfit for work for more than 6 weeks uninterruptedly or repeatedly over the past 12 months, your employer is obligated to contact you and extend an offer for a personal meeting. Contact must be made in writing.

    Participation in the meeting is voluntary and confidential. You may also request to participate in the BEM-program on your own initiative.

    What are the goals of the BEM program?

    The BEM program’s main objectives are to establish

    • how to best overcome unfitness for work;
    • what support and services may help prevent further unfitness for work;
    • how to protect the employee’s job;
    • how to further foster and support the employee’s skills;
    • how to ensure that the employee’s full physical capacity and productivity is restored; and
    • whether the employee may qualify for disability.

    We will gladly support you in reaching your goals.

    What can I do as a supervisor?

    Are you a supervisor aiming to help a member of your team ease back into work after sick leave? Your benefit from the BEM re-integration program is the retention of a qualified human resource.

    Please note that it is your responsibility to get in touch with any employee who has been unfit for work for more than 6 weeks uninterruptedly or repeatedly over the past twelve months.

    We would be happy to advise you on all organizational matters. Just contact us!

    Where can I find help?

    Erik Bothmann (ext. 7783) is the BEM coordinator and your first port of call. He will gladly provide answers to all questions related to the BEM program and put you in contact with an advisor.

    The details for all BEM program contact persons at Universität Hamburg are listed in the following PDF:

    Legal basis

    Please find the significant BEM-related legislation below:

    Please note:

    We ensure strict confidentiality. No personal information communicated within the framework of the BEM program will be included in your personnel file.

    Downloads

    Further information

    Contact

    Erik Bothmann
    Staff code: -GM 1-
    Unit head
    Stabsstelle Gesundheitsmanagement
    Welckerstr. 8, Room 5.12
    20354 Hamburg
    Tel +49 40 42838-7783
    Fax: +49 40 42838-5982

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