How many sick days do you take in the average year?

custardy

slugger09 wrote: »

In my 15 years working I have never saw this happen, sure we all get an odd cold but nothing you can't work through, I think because the option is there to take of and get paid people are to quick to stay in bed

maybe,but then you have people coming in spreading illnesses amoungst other workers
so for the sake of a few days off. you can have staff in and working at 30% and dragging down others
I myself pulled a muscle in my back at RM in my no sick pay 1 year period
i went in and tried to continue
In the end i had to go off and spent longer off as i had worked on with the injury

slugger09

custardy wrote: »

maybe,but then you have people coming in spreading illnesses amoungst other workers
so for the sake of a few days off. you can have staff in and working at 30% and dragging down others
I myself pulled a muscle in my back at RM in my no sick pay 1 year period
i went in and tried to continue
In the end i had to go off and spent longer off as i had worked on with the injury

Sadly for most in low paid jobs sick pay is not an option

Uncertain

slugger09 wrote: »

Sadly for most in low paid jobs sick pay is not an option

Maybe not.

However not all jobs are low paid! Many employment "packages" come with a number of benefits over and above the salary. A good sick pay provision may be one. Others might be private heath care, company cars, sports club memberships, life assurance etc.

Certainly at higher levels there is far more to employment than a wage packet.

As an aside, many people have life assurance but often forget that there is a much higher chance of becoming long term sick than there is of dying. A prudent person with responsibilities will make some provision for this. Their employer's sick pay scheme will be one factor in deciding what they need.

no-oneknowsme

Googlewhacker wrote: »

I would hardly call them the best if people blatently take the mick!

They are one of the best as in how many employers do you actually know who have such a generous sick pay scheme?

The fact that a few (and I mean a few out of hundreds) mistreat the sick pay scheme is hardly a reflection on the Employer.

The Employer , as I said before is one of the best!

Googlewhacker

no-oneknowsme wrote: »

They are one of the best as in how many employers do you actually know who have such a generous sick pay scheme?

The fact that a few (and I mean a few out of hundreds) mistreat the sick pay scheme is hardly a reflection on the Employer.

The Employer , as I said before is one of the best!

It is a very generous sick scheme and for employees you could prob deem them as one of the best but I see the fact that if they are not doing anything to stop people abusing the sick pay then that doesn't make them one of the best.

no-oneknowsme

Googlewhacker wrote: »

It is a very generous sick scheme and for employees you could prob deem them as one of the best but I see the fact that if they are not doing anything to stop people abusing the sick pay then that doesn't make them one of the best.

What exactly can they do ? If employees are submitting sick notes (or fit notes) to cover their absense then what can they do?

By stopping the sick scheme its the good employees who would suffer.

LillythePink

I haven't had a day off ill for about 9/10 years - I am pretty lucky in that respect - I seem to get bad colds (that would warrant staying off) when I am on study leave - so am at home anyway

I am lucky in that I can't remember having a sick bug but my OH is always catching them and despite my best efforts I still don't get the ones where you lose 6 stone in 2 days lol

We used to have people who abused the sickness and took lots of odd days, but since they started enforcing their sickness policy, it's gone the other way

You are only allowed 6 uncertified days in a rolling 12 months, if you go over that, then they start deducting pay. This now means that people who are genuinly ill won't go home as they will have money taken from their pay - a man who works in another department but on the next bank of desks has been at his desk, coughing, sneezing and full of a cold, but won't go home because of money deducted - he had bowel cancer a few years ago so is prone to sickness bugs so is off a day or two here and there but it has mounted up and it doesn't help that the drs won't sign you off with a cold - we also have to get a dr note after two days off even though the law says three days

aries69

The company I work for offer a very good montly bonus scheme - if an employee is off sick their bonus halves... we hardly ever have anyone calling in sick.

custardy

aries69 wrote: »

The company I work for offer a very good montly bonus scheme - if an employee is off sick their bonus halves... we hardly ever have anyone calling in sick.

I think its the best solution
it probably means a company could offer a better sickness package ot staff
so at least those off ill dont lose wages but 'only' part of their bonus

MrsTinks

LillythePink wrote: »

You are only allowed 6 uncertified days in a rolling 12 months, if you go over that, then they start deducting pay. This now means that people who are genuinly ill won't go home as they will have money taken from their pay - a man who works in another department but on the next bank of desks has been at his desk, coughing, sneezing and full of a cold, but won't go home because of money deducted - he had bowel cancer a few years ago so is prone to sickness bugs so is off a day or two here and there but it has mounted up and it doesn't help that the drs won't sign you off with a cold - we also have to get a dr note after two days off even though the law says three days

I'm pretty sure that they are not allowed to demand a sicknote unless they are willing to pay for the potential cost of re-imbursing it (if the illness is in the self cert period at least)... I've had to get a sicknote before years ago before the 6 days you can self certify (and that's for that sickness period -NOT a 12 month rolling period - think they are on thin ground there too!) because I had had no end of trouble with my employer at the time and I told the GP I was personally happy to pay for the certificate because of the amount of pressure I knew would be applied if I self certified... GP waved the fee for me but didn't have to I was genuinely unable to work but my employer at the time was not one to believe people... oddly I didn't stick round long!