Am I safe to take 10 weeks off sick for stress and anxiety? No previous sick record

teabelly

Go back. Work each week at a time. Keep busy and it will rush by and seem like no time at all. If after sometime back you genuinely feel unable to continue then get signed off but not making any attempt to return and the company will smell a rat.

When you go back you could say you have nothing to do. If you keep saying how little work there is for you to actually to do then it is bound to make them wonder why they are paying you!

Pssst

If the new role is a "developmental opportunity" then maybe you should try and grasp the nettle,be more positive and try and make it work?

The only thing that really matters is that at the end of the month someone puts ££££££ in your bank account, that you keep in the loop and keep working and that you do not harm to future career prospects by stampeding for no apparent reason.

GavB79

When you come back from your maternity you are entitled to return to the post you left! They can't just change your job without your agreement.

nearlyrich

GavB79 wrote: »

When you come back from your maternity you are entitled to return to the post you left! They can't just change your job without your agreement.

Actually they just have to give you a job it doesn't have to be the exact same job you had before mat leave as I understand it.

Emmzi

managing in a geographically dispersed environment is not impossible. I've done it. It takes a lot of organisation.

In terms of a greivance I would have expected you to have come up with and tried an action plan of what you need to make it work and discussed it with youyr manager before I'd entertain upholding (sorry if that sounds harsh but generally you need to get out of 'victim' and into 'I have tried everything to make this work')

So, weekly teleconferences with team, weekly 15 min chat with your boss, monthly face to face 121, workspace on the intranet, etc etc, all of which gve forums to raise issues and progress stuff that in the past you wouldhave done over a cuppa.

Have you exhausted this route?

Emmzi

nearlyrich wrote: »

Actually they just have to give you a job it doesn't have to be the exact same job you had before mat leave as I understand it.

ordinary maternity leave = same job if it still exisits, can't give it to someone else, are however allowed to restructure in your absence
additional maternity leave = same job if it still exists or they haven't had to give it to someone else to cover you (as you can be off for quite a while here), if not an equivalent
career break = not legal entitlement = whatever employer has open on your return

nearlyrich

Emmzi wrote: »

ordinary maternity leave = same job if it still exisits, can't give it to someone else, are however allowed to restructure in your absence
additional maternity leave = same job if it still exists or they haven't had to give it to someone else to cover you (as you can be off for quite a while here), if not an equivalent
career break = not legal entitlement = whatever employer has open on your return

I am not a HR expert but have worked with lots of people who have gone on mat leaves over the years many of them didn't get exactly the same role on return due to the needs of the business.;)

Thanks Emmzi for elaborating!

Judith_W

I would suggest trying to take a couple of weeks holiday to get your head sorted then taking it one day at a time. So dangerous to take 10 weeks off, you may never work again!

MORPH3US

As an employer... I wouldn't touch you with a barge pole if I saw you had taken 10 weeks off sick......

wishface

bristol_pilot wrote: »

Kiss goodbye to your career if you have sickness due to any kind of mental disorder that is not a disability - 'stress' etc is not something employers want to hear. And 10 weeks on the sick for any reason will have a similar effect.

What's better then? Having a clean working record for the benefit of employers (who may well be breaking the discrimination laws), or being healthy.

To have to ask that question in this day and age is just a sad fact of life.

If a doctor has found you to be genuinely ill and you aren't fit for work, then where do employers get off discriminating against people. Some folks seem to think they are more qualified to diagnose people than actual trained practitioners.

If the OP is genuinely ill then his first priority should be to his well being.