MSE Parents Club Part 10

MadDogWoman_2

MFD - DH would love to go to Hawaii, might just have to try and save some money in the next few years to see if we can make it for his 50th Birthday!

Where I work you only get statutory sick pay after 3 days unless you request to take it as leave.

Where DH works its 6 months full pay then 6 months half pay

Beccles - I'd be fuming too. Hugs

tiamai_d

(((hugs becs)))

I can understand how upset you are but he must be feeling so bad about it too. Hope you calm down soon. *nice honest person vibes* in the hope it has been handed in.

3onitsway

Hugs Becles - how did he manage to lose it? I bet he's feeling really dreadful about it too?, at least he should be!

csh wrote: »

Hi 3, you'd have been proud of me today, I IRONED THINGS!!!!!
Was only going to do K's clothes for his big date with Holly tomorrow but they looked so nice I ended up doing all his daywear!
I'm embarrassed to say I have a fancy steam generator iron I never use!

Well done csh - I am very proud of you! :T
I love my steam generator - that's why I iron so much. I didn't iron this much when I had a crappy normal iron.

money_maker_3

aww becs, I bet he feels just as bad as you do xx

Do you have personal belongings cover? It isnt the same as cover outside the home, it covers items normally worn or carried, so if you have that you might be .. worth a check to see

My_Fathers_Daughter

elle_gee wrote: »

It doesn't have to be unpaid, you can include paid ED conditions in the employment contract, but where I work it's unpaid, iyswim

Our reference requests now include a question "how many PL days have they had" but no mention of how many ED days. We have different codes on our absence recording system though for the diff things so could answer the question if asked.

You have to know "how many PL days" because you only get 13 weeks to take in so long*, and they cross employment, so if you've had 10 in one job in the period*, you can't switch jobs and take another 7, you've only got another 3 to take. Does that make sense? (* = "i don't know!" times )

Where the h3ll is that confused smiley when you need him???


Wha?????

money_maker wrote: »

MFD, we are allowed 5 days a year I think of emergency parental leave, max of 2 days in a row where we still get paid. If however it isnt an emergency eg. a school play or dentist appt etc.. and we have no holidays left then it is unpaid parental leave, and after the 5 days are used it is all unpaid after that if it cant be booked as holidays

That doesnt make as much sense as I want it to ...

Oh that sounds perfect!! Although I really am not bothered about an early afternoon or 2 for a school play or appointment. If I say 5 days per year, max 2 in a row, of full pay and then holiday or unpaid then that feels about right IYSWIM. I want to treat my employee how I would like to be treated myself and that sounds fair.

It is wierd because the lady in question has been my assistant for 4 years now, since before she had her son, but now I will be employing her properly!

tiamai_d wrote: »

My (old) work - If I was sick it was marked as unauthorised absence, sick and could then be used for disaplinary if it went over a certain percent. If a child was sick it went down as sometheing else, basically it can't be taken into account for disaplinary measures, but they could request 'evidence' to support the claim, a note from your GP. (same with college).

DH's old work - full sick pay upto 6 months.

If you don't mind me being nosey, what line of business will you be in? I've noticed it differs hugely through the range of work places.

I'd probably limit the amount of paid sick days to prevent skiving.

I work in construction but I am setting up as a consultant (if the letter ever arrives). I have no worries about my assistant skiving, she works harder than I do!!! But I would like to have some rules in place so we both know where we stand.


Thanks ladies - you really can get help for everything here can't you!!!

Becles

It's not the first thing he's lost.

He lost a Gameboy a couple of years back, lost his Christmas 08 cash as he put it in an old envelope then thinks he accidentally threw the envelope in the bin, and he lost his mobile last year but a nice man found it and rang me and he dropped it round.

He just doesn't seem to learn how to look after things :mad:

He had a fleece on with zipped pockets, but rather than put it in the pocket, he stuck it down the flap where the pocket is stitched on the inside and it must have fell out when he was running home.

searching_me

oooo wanna hear something cute i forgot to tell you .. zoe sat for an hour this morning reading jayden stories and he sat listening to every word .. awwwww x

searching_me

becs i would just stop buying him expensive/nice things til he could prove himself x

My_Fathers_Daughter

Ah, that is different then Becles.
I am with tia and praying for a nice person to hand it in xx

csh_2

Becles wrote: »

He just doesn't seem to learn how to look after things :mad:

My DD exactly the same. Broke an expensive phone, broke her expensive camera and lost her purse with £40 in it.
She doesn't look after anything properly, but thats because shes immature about these things. She doesn't equate hard work with getting things. Not many children do. Its not until your working for your own stuff that you learn to take care of it.
Unfortunatly kids are only kids and whether its an expensive phone or a skipping rope they will either ruin it or lose it

I never replace anything she breaks or has lost