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lisamcb
#1 Posted : Sunday, February 09, 2014 10:28:43 AM Quote
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Hi folks

Just been reading a news article about how the Government is launching a new support service to help reduce the number of people on long-term sick leave.

I am thinking to myself how that will impact on folk like us with our condition as it's to help employees who have been on sickness absence for 4 weeks to return to work and support employers to better manage sickness absence amongst their workforce??

I am thinking it is the usual that people like us will be penalised as our condition is so inconsistent isn't it? Allegedly the work-focused occ health assessment will identify issues preventing you from returning to work and draw up a plan recommending how the employee can be helped back more quickly. A timetable for return will be drawn up etc.

I feel like our rights to be off sick is slowly being taken away from us - does anyone else feel like that? As we all know flare-ups can strike at anytime and there are no known guarantees of when they will settle down again and this will just add to the stress of feeling guilty about being off and being made to feel if you are not back within the 4 weeks timescale your health and capability will be time-tabled.

Lisa
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helen-g-1
#2 Posted : Monday, February 10, 2014 12:30:32 PM Quote
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Lisa,
I agree, I think sick leave is gradually being withdrawn. They have a go at the public sector for an average 8 days a year sickness - presumably they want us to be like the staff in the local Tesco Express, where an employee with an appalling cold, (in a food store (yuk!)) told me he didn't get paid for the first three days off sick, so just had to come to work. He agreed that he would probably pass on his cold to other staff and to customers.
Feel we are rapidly travelling back to the Victorian age as far as the treatment of workers is concerned. And I am someone with a very good sick leave record, so am not posting this through self-justification!
Helen
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Paul Barrett
#3 Posted : Monday, March 03, 2014 6:22:02 PM Quote
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helen-g-1 wrote:
Lisa,
I agree, I think sick leave is gradually being withdrawn. They have a go at the public sector for an average 8 days a year sickness - presumably they want us to be like the staff in the local Tesco Express, where an employee with an appalling cold, (in a food store (yuk!)) told me he didn't get paid for the first three days off sick, so just had to come to work. He agreed that he would probably pass on his cold to other staff and to customers.
Feel we are rapidly travelling back to the Victorian age as far as the treatment of workers is concerned. And I am someone with a very good sick leave record, so am not posting this through self-justification!
Helen


The fact that someone working in a food store is practically forced to work when they have an infection is just vile.ThumbDown
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Dorothy-W
#4 Posted : Tuesday, March 04, 2014 9:19:03 AM Quote
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I agree we are most deffo going backwards in the work place, my daughter in law gets no sick pay and has been told no maternity pay she has been in the company now 7/8 years is a supervisor and still no rights,even her pregnancy is not properly noted she still is expected to do normall lifting etc its dreadfull, i worked in community care and we had to carry on with colds etc,i paid myself for the flu jag,i didn't want to pass illness on to these people we were looking after or bring any thing home, then I worked in a company kitchen and the mere sign of a sniff and you were sent home places work so different but with food its a must to stay away if any sniffles at all, I dread to think how low the work place is going to end up,not a good show for Tesco there, I have been known to ask to see finger nails at the cold meat counter,dorothy
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