The manager gets me back to do some relief work (6)
I believe the answer is:
emboss
'some relief work' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both to do with contact as well as being verbs in their base form.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'the manager gets me back to do' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'manager' could be 'boss' (I've seen this before) and 'boss' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'em' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for emboss that I've seen before include "Raise (a design) in relief" , "Make a raised design on" , "Provide relief" , "Chase" , "Execute in relief" .)