Sick Days

[BERGS2]

How many would you deem an 'acceptable' number to have over the course of a year?

office based work & excluding major illness etc.

[Vespula]

14 in the Civil Service, 10 if you're on a bonus.

[Shabs]

8 in the case of my place I believe

[Dover Nige]

12 in a rolling twelve months I'd say.

[ukwill]

<awaits someone stating they haven't had a sick day off since 1801>

[shirt]

we're allowed 2 periods of sickness absence per year. the 3rd gets you a verbal warning, written on the 4th, sacked on the 5th.

obviously if you have a good reason backed up by GP and works doctor then its different. i have a by as i suffer migraines.

[Lord Pikey]

We get sick "lives". I.e no more than 3 periods of sick in a rolling 12 months or you have to have a chat.

So, if you feeling crap on a Monday and don't go in, there is no reason to go in for the rest of the week.

The mind boggles

[Don]

Consider using the "Bradford Factor".

Number of Occasions of Sickness * Number of Occasions of Sickness * Total Number of Days of Sickness

Scoring over 100 should probably mean a "return to work interview" after further sickness incidents. Any score over 300 definitely needs attention.

A score over 800 or 900 or so is probably enough to get someone the sack.

[BERGS2]

really???

I've got a couple of bods on 10-11 days for the year to date - which I thought was high...

[Don]

BERGS2 said:

really???

I've got a couple of bods on 10-11 days for the year to date - which I thought was high...

It may be high or it may be reasonable. Two bouts of the flu off for a week each time is probably OK. That would be 2 * 2 * 10 = 40.

Taking a day off on the last Friday of the month with regularity would come out at 12 * 12 * 1 = 144 = not OK, time for questions to be asked.

You choose the levels and what actions are taken. The factor is simply a means of writing "rules" into the Employee Handbook...

[Maxf]

Jesus - I maybe have 3 a year on average and I'm made to feel like a .

[Don]

BERGS2 said:

really???

I've got a couple of bods on 10-11 days for the year to date - which I thought was high...

Out of interest. Do you have a system for dealing with this?

I happen to have some software about my person... Deals for PHers!

[Steamer]

Sick day... let me think.... oh thats what the great unwashed get paid for when they are having a 'duvet day'.


...For the rest if us joyously self employed its mearly the name given to a day when the vaults of xvideo are raided.

[t11ner]

ukwill said:

<awaits someone stating they haven't had a sick day off since 1801>

Just ask any of the self-employed guys on here then. Sick days wouldn't be an issue if people weren't still paid whilst ill/hungover/skiving

[Don]

Maxf said:

Jesus - I maybe have 3 a year on average and I'm made to feel like a .

Depends, though. If that was 3 incidents of a couple of days that would be 3 * 3 * 6 = 54. The factor would reckon you genuine.

[HereBeMonsters]

The girls here at work have days off if they have a headache or a little sniffle. Last year a girl ran our of sick days (more than 30) and had to take half pay for all subsequent sick days.
I had swine 'flu and was only off for 8 working days. Only illness this year so far. Touch wood.

[bonsai]

Steamer said:

Sick day... let me think.... oh thats what the great unwashed get paid for when they are having a 'duvet day'.


...For the rest if us joyously self employed its mearly the name given to a day when the vaults of xvideo are raided.

Aww yeah, life must be so bad only have to PAYE £12,000 (or whatever the nominal figure is) and enjoy those delicious tax breaks on the rest of your dividends!

[t11ner]

No sick pay, no holiday pay, no pension, get paid only if you do your job properly and if you bring income in. Life's a beach when you are self-employed .

[ukwill]

t11ner said:

No sick pay, no holiday pay, no pension, get paid only if you do your job properly and if you bring income in. Life's a beach when you are self-employed .

You mean contractor? Isn't that the new name given to tax-dodging employees who fancied a decent hourly rate?

[BigAlinEmbra]

t11ner said:

No sick pay, no holiday pay, no pension, get paid only if you do your job properly and if you bring income in. Life's a beach when you are self-employed .

The price of greed eh?