Helping Employee

[dowie]

The problem HR has - if they make special accommodation for one person you then potentially get a load of people wanting the same for them and at the end of the day they are there for the company not the employee.

If others genuinely have an issue like that they they could also sign off with stress, how it was arranged isn't anyone else's business than the employee and Dis86/immediate management, it's not something that needs be broadcast but being proactive about this stuff absolutely is in the interests of the company and the consequences of not dealing with it are what you're describing here:

My previous boss went down this route - when they didn't accommodate him an initial 2 weeks off for "stress" turned into 6 months signed off and then he played the game until they pushed him out. Made a right mess of things.

 

[Rroff]

If others genuinely have an issue like that they they could also sign off with stress

Problem is that isn't how some people think - we had a guy back in the pandemic days after several people were genuinely off with COVID for a couple of weeks, had a couple of weeks off with "COVID" and putting on the most fake cough ever when he got back and clearly never had COVID - but he was the kind of person who didn't think it fair if other people had time off and he didn't, etc.