Bradford Index....

aj2703

Hi can anyone give me some advice weather you can be penalised for having an operation just before they use the results twoards your redundancy marks..?.

A total of 20% from this goes to the final score. Now about five weeks ago i had an operation on my wrist. In my apprasial just before i went for my op i got a "Pat on the back" from the team leader because my bradford index went from 150 down to 30. When i got the sheet that gives you the scores out of each section i got 0 out of 20...!. I am thinking it's because they have been sly and done the figures while i have been signed off sick because of the op and not at the time of my last appprasial. The same has happened to one of the other colleuges whom went in for keyhole but ended up having to have open surgery. That person's sickness and attendance up until that point was good too. Can they do this if your signed off...?

aj2703

Anyone..?.

Berkshiregirl

If they're doing a scorecard to make a decision on redundancies, I'd expect them to be using current data - ie absence over the past 12 months, not over 12 months in a past period. I'm not explaining it very well, but essentially I think they'd look June-June rather than April-April.

darbs

Is intended for Managers to spot people having those one or two days sick leave over a year (no doctors note needed) rather than those having operations

see http://www.wao.gov.uk/print_version_eng/1513.asp.asp and
http://www.wao.gov.uk/print_version_eng/1512.asp.asp

It weights period of sick leave.

My company has a cut off point - when you go above the higher level - you are called in to account for your absences. For some people this acts as a trigger (warning) not to have the odd "sickie", but the system should not be penalising staff who have been ill for more than 5 days, but haven't taken any "sickies" previously in the year.

bristol_pilot

The short answer is yes they can. I once worked for a Company where a team member was off sick on a waiting list for an operation but was so important to a particular project that the Company paid for her to have the operation privately. She was no sooner back at work when she was selected for redundancy on the grounds of sickness record (and the important project hadn't been cancelled). Basically ANY sickness is likely to put you towards the top of the list for redundancy, little account is taken of whether the sickness is genuine or not.

aj2703

Thanks Bristol, i did think that. Still a bummer you can find yourself being penalised for some that's genuine.