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does 6 seperate periods mean 6 days or 6 occasions?

Noone has mentioned it at work and I asked my line manager to make sure and she said my attendance is fine but....

I was off

January - 2 days

March - 1 day

April - 3 WORKING days

June - 1 day (yesterday)

Does that mean I have had 4 of the seperate occasions or 6? as 2 + 1 + 3 + 1 - 6?
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  • anamenottaken
    anamenottaken Posts: 4,198 Forumite
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    Noone has mentioned it at work and I asked my line manager to make sure and she said my attendance is fine but....

    I was off

    January - 2 days

    March - 1 day

    April - 3 WORKING days

    June - 1 day (yesterday)

    Does that mean I have had 4 of the seperate occasions or 6? as 2 + 1 + 3 + 1 - 6?

    If the January and April abences were not separate days then you have had 4 periods of absence which total 7 days.

    I'm surprised that a company would find that amount of absence in 6 months "fine".
  • BrettMorganxD
    BrettMorganxD Posts: 2,048 Forumite
    If the January and April abences were not separate days then you have had 4 periods of absence which total 7 days.

    I'm surprised that a company would find that amount of absence in 6 months "fine".

    Not bad considering I am one of the ones with good attendance. Their is alot what don;t make a full month
  • MissSarah1972
    MissSarah1972 Posts: 1,648 Forumite
    7 days sick is a lot over 4 periods in 6 mths. My last company would start a disciplinary if you had more than 10 days in a rolling period or 12 mths, no matter if it was one block of 10 days or 10 single days.

    Depends the ones where you had 3 & 2 days were together or 3 and 2 seperate single days?
  • BrettMorganxD
    BrettMorganxD Posts: 2,048 Forumite
    7 days sick is a lot over 4 periods in 6 mths. My last company would start a disciplinary if you had more than 10 days in a rolling period or 12 mths, no matter if it was one block of 10 days or 10 single days.

    Depends the ones where you had 3 & 2 days were together or 3 and 2 seperate single days?

    jan - just one day actually

    march - 1 day

    april - 3 together

    june - 1 day
  • BrettMorganxD
    BrettMorganxD Posts: 2,048 Forumite
    7 days sick is a lot over 4 periods in 6 mths. My last company would start a disciplinary if you had more than 10 days in a rolling period or 12 mths, no matter if it was one block of 10 days or 10 single days.

    Depends the ones where you had 3 & 2 days were together or 3 and 2 seperate single days?

    depends the policy is for a full-time worker of 35 hours per week but i do more like 50
  • MissSarah1972
    MissSarah1972 Posts: 1,648 Forumite
    jan - just one day actually

    march - 1 day

    april - 3 together

    june - 1 day
    Ok thats now 6 seperate periods of sickness in 6 mths.

    Not good
  • MissSarah1972
    MissSarah1972 Posts: 1,648 Forumite
    depends the policy is for a full-time worker of 35 hours per week but i do more like 50
    Policy? Hours do not come into it. You can't say you do more hours so you can have more sick.
  • Person_one
    Person_one Posts: 28,884 Forumite
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    jan - just one day actually

    march - 1 day

    april - 3 together

    june - 1 day


    4 episodes, 6 days.

    What are the triggers for your sickness policy?

    I have to say, I think most employers would be less suspicious if you had one long episode with a clear reason like a broken leg or a chest infection etc. rather than lots of sporadic days here and there.

    You have to be pretty unlucky to keep regularly getting one of the few things that make you completely unfit for work one day but fine the day before and the day after. Single day episodes smack of duvet day or hangover.
  • BrettMorganxD
    BrettMorganxD Posts: 2,048 Forumite
    Ok thats now 6 seperate periods of sickness in 6 mths.

    Not good

    It is four....

    1 in jan

    1 in march

    3 together, not seperate in april

    1 in june
  • BrettMorganxD
    BrettMorganxD Posts: 2,048 Forumite
    Person_one wrote: »
    4 episodes, 6 days.

    What are the triggers for your sickness policy?

    I have to say, I think most employers would be less suspicious if you had one long episode with a clear reason like a broken leg or a chest infection etc. rather than lots of sporadic days here and there.

    You have to be pretty unlucky to keep regularly getting one of the few things that make you completely unfit for work one day but fine the day before and the day after. Single day episodes smack of duvet day or hangover.

    well it says 6 seperate periods.

    3 where sickness 1 sore throat.

    Never hungover, never been on mondays
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