how many sick days is too many or too often?

The last company I worked for had a policy of 8 sick days a year and then you did not get paid - only SSP. Some employees used them as extra days holiday and some genuine sick but when it came to a pay review then the amount of days off sick where always offset against how much pay increase you got.

So I thought i'd probably be better off contracting where if you are off sick then you don't get paid.
 
MrMoonX said:
its the morons who come in sick and spread their colds around because they buy into the i dont take sick days crap
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They normally infect me with my reduced immune system resulting in me needing time off. Thankfully this is usually classed as disability related absence so they can STFU.
 
Self employed since leaving school, no one to cover for me so, if I don't work I get no income and have never claimed sickness benefit or taken more than 2 or 3 days off through sickness in the last 31 years.
You can't help being off with a genuine illness but it seems like too many people use very minor ailments as an excuse to pull a sickie and get the day off.
 
lttlejoe said:
Self employed since leaving school, no one to cover for me so, if I don't work I get no income and have never claimed sickness benefit or taken more than 2 or 3 days off through sickness in the last 31 years.
You can't help being off with a genuine illness but it seems like too many people use very minor ailments as an excuse to pull a sickie and get the day off.
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This.

I think there would be a very rapid decline in 'sick' days if people did not get paid for them.

I personaly disagree with people getting paid for time off sick unless a Doctors note is provided.
 
I get as many sick days off as i want. This is because if i say I'm sick, they believe me. Before i started using sick days i just used to go in to work with a pack of lemsip max, but then the last time i did this i ended up projectile vomiting over quite a few expensive computers so they told me never to come in ill again :D
 
There's nothing much you can do about it. It won't have made a fantastic starting impression, but unless your new employers are tools it won't count against you unless you keep on being the plague monkey.
 
My job is to clean infections up in Hospital, so obviously I pick far too much D+V (Norovirus, C-Diff). And it would be really, really stupid of me to go in with that, so I do actually have more than I'd like to have off, but everyone that does the job is in the same boat, and the managers seem to realise it's part of the job.


MeEsH BaKkA said:
Ok. What I ment was, the ilness/injury being serious enough to warrant a dr's note. Not people getting signed off for flu.
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If someone has got Flu, they would do well to get out of bed to go and see the Doctor, never mind get into work.
 
Only have 3 or 4 days off a year ill normally :( came home from work yesterday after going to doctors and been put on antibiotics. Only time ill be off ill is if its somthing bad or cant controll the below regions
 
[TW]Fox;18888252 said:
I don't really get how some people can have loads of sick days yet others hardly any or none at all. Is it really that random or is there something about those who take sickies quite a lot...
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Serious?
 
There always seems to be certain people that are just prone to illnesses. You know the sort, the ones that always have the sniffles. The ones that will get the winter flu, and seem to have this that and the other. Don't know if they're not eating properly but it does seem odd.

Obviously that doesn't apply to those with genuine medical conditions.
 
We work on 3 periods of sickness in a rolling 12 month period, more would require investigation and depending on the circumstances activation of the disciplinary procedure.

Personally, I had swine flu over xmas, so had a few weeks off, but then the sick policy doesn't apply to me anyway.


Company Sick-pay is payable after 12 months service, we give 2 weeks in that year rising to 26 weeks by year 5. There are 3 waiting days that you are not paid for unless you are signed off for a second week by a doctor, then the 3 days are paid.

This combats people having the odd day off here and there but doesn't unfairly punish those with genuine illness.
 
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MeEsH BaKkA said:
This.

I think there would be a very rapid decline in 'sick' days if people did not get paid for them.

I personaly disagree with people getting paid for time off sick unless a Doctors note is provided.
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Absolutely.
If everyone was self employed, there'd be even fewer days taken off!
 
But that would mean people being in work who genuinely shouldn't be.
That's a health risk, not just to the sick person but everyone else.
 
I really hate people who come in sick and spread it. Our place is open plan but with a really innefective air circulation system and in the 20 months I have been there I have been ill loads. Not gone off sick with it though but really getting fed up of it all.
 
[TW]Fox;18888252 said:
I don't really get how some people can have loads of sick days yet others hardly any or none at all.
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For such an intelligent man, I honestly can't believe you posted that. :D


One thing I noticed personally after 17 years working where I barely took much time off, as soon as my son started nursery I find he gets something then a few days later I get it. I've been ill more often in the last 12 months than probably the last 10-15 years put together (not always leading to time off).

Prior to having a child in the house I was rarely ill apart from xmas get togethers when you always get a few ill kids :D
 
mrk1@1 said:
I really hate people who come in sick and spread it. Our place is open plan but with a really innefective air circulation system and in the 20 months I have been there I have been ill loads. Not gone off sick with it though but really getting fed up of it all.
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Lol?
 
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