sick days with child

Prudent

manhattan wrote:

thats a bit of a stupid answer! how the hell can you send a sick child into school?

Sadly many parents do. Schools are unpaid childminding. It is unfair to the child and is unfair on their classmates and staff. In one class I worked, a mum sent in a seven year old in agony with an absess the size of a golf ball. I sent him home. A week later she sent him literally being sick. At 9.30am I sent him home and at 1pm she sent him back.

I am a single parent myself without any family around. My own dd has ongoing health problems and I fully appreciate the stress that places parents under.

Op, your council is not correct. You are entitled to at least the first two days off on full pay to give you chance to find alternative child care arrangements. Speak to human resources and if that fails, your union.

Prudent

sexy_fufu wrote:

i put a thread on here same 2 weeks ago have a look.

Its full of some good info..

mine was supervisor being nasty over time off with baby

I was just thinking of your thread.

withabix

Prudent wrote:

Op, your council is not correct. You are entitled to at least the first two days off on full pay to give you chance to find alternative child care arrangements. Speak to human resources and if that fails, your union.

Incorrect.

From the DTI website (on the page linked in a post further up this thread):

Will I be paid?

Not necessarily. It depends on your employer or employment contract. There is no legal obligation for your employer to pay you for the time you take off.


See here also:

http://www.dti.gov.uk/files/file11419.pdf

impy78

viktory wrote:

Agree with seven day weekend. Part and parcel of being a parent I'm afraid. Can you imagine the outcry if you were given 'free' days annual leave because your child was sick? How would the non parents feel about that?

They can, it's called dependency leave, and is seperate from holidays. I don't know whether this is a legal requirement, but most of the companies I have worked for have had this a company policy.

Alleycat

I thought dependency leave was unpaid. They can't refuse you if you request it, but they don't have to pay you. I work for a Housing Association, but with Local Authority regs surrounding time off etc and we don't get paid for it.

sexy_fufu

Prudent wrote:

Sadly many parents do. Schools are unpaid childminding. It is unfair to the child and is unfair on their classmates and staff. In one class I worked, a mum sent in a seven year old in agony with an absess the size of a golf ball. I sent him home. A week later she sent him literally being sick. At 9.30am I sent him home and at 1pm she sent him back.

I am a single parent myself without any family around. My own dd has ongoing health problems and I fully appreciate the stress that places parents under.

Op, your council is not correct. You are entitled to at least the first two days off on full pay to give you chance to find alternative child care arrangements. Speak to human resources and if that fails, your union.

Prudent i dont think your entitled to full pay...

I dont get it, i have to have it off without pay the 1st 2 days

sexy_fufu

lol @ us, all sating the same thing.

Ysoskint i was really worried but when i went back work supervisor was ok...

So sit down have a chat and im sure it will all be ok in the end !!!

GOOD LUCK AND I HOPE UR LIL ONE GETS BETTER SOON

krisskross

In the NHS we had 'carer's leave' which was paid. I took some time off when my husband had his bypass surgery. As I am retired no idea if it still happens. i was allowed up to 5 days a year. Obviously it was mostly people with children who claimed but any other close relative was allowed.

GirlRacer_2

We get special leave days where I work. I'm lucky in that my mum lives round the corner, but I do appreciate the difficulty your having here. I'm a single parent with 2 children and if it wasn't for mum I'm sure I'd have cracked under the strain of finding someone at short notice when the children are ill.

Anthillmob

i had to take friday off work as chops had a raging temp of 85.5. ear or chest infections. given antibiotics.

ill probably have to take it as holiday which s fair enough but i do know when other parents have had to take time off and they havent had any holiday left they get w=hat my employer call 'special time' or maybe even compassionate leave