Wife's work sending Text to all carers saying dont go off sick

Most recruitment firms communicate with their workers by means of 'texts' nowadays; it is cheap, efficient and reliable; it gets a faster response that emails.

Without knowing what was texted or the context, your question is pretty meaningless.
 
Is your wife prone to taking many sick days off? Maybe it wasn't the whole care home, just your wife. There's a girl on my band where I work who's had ridiculous amounts of sick leave this past tax year - something like 25 days over 10 instances. She's not got anything medically wrong with her, she's just a lazy cow.

Tell your wife to do her job properly and she shouldn't get any more texts. If she does, it's probably unjustified and worth mentioning to someone.
 
Forward it to her union rep. If she is the only one who got it then yes it is discrimination.

Basically a poor manager who cant handle rotas. Company should have a policy in place which investigates those who go off sick more than X amount of times.
 
gary996 said:
What should happen is if you go sick you don't get paid.
That would stop a lot of people just having days off for no reason.
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strangely its the other way around, like on a nice day you find lots of people won't turn into work if they don't get paid. Would rather have a day out in the sun than earn £50
 
gary996 said:
What should happen is if you go sick you don't get paid.
That would stop a lot of people just having days off for no reason.
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That works very well at my place of work. If I'm off sick & want paying, I have to take it as part of my holiday entitlement.

trouble is, it almost forces you to go in if feeling under the weather (something I have done before, not these days mind you!)

It sometimes makes me wonder if they would prefer an un-fit driver with 44tons under his / her control.... :eek:
 
Ok, at the weekends other carers go off sick or they are short of staff.

Its a text to all carers as she has had them even on her weekend off (she does home care).

Her sickness is minimal maybe 6/7 days in this financial year.

The text said this weekend (from the on call person) I dont have a car so dont call in sick. (on call have to cover clients that they can not get other staff to cover).

The one before from another on call person that weekend. Said I am very busy and doing care as well. So do not call in sick.

Thank you for helpful comments.
 
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Clairvoyant said:
Her sickness is minimal maybe 6/7 days in this financial year.
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Personaly I wouldn't call 6-7 days in a year minimal. I've had one day off in the past 3 years and most of the other people in my department have about the same.

However it needs context, is this one instance of sickness where she was off for 6 days, or is this 6 different instances of sickness? If it is 6 different Mondays for example this is a very different story.

With regards to the text it depends on what you feel it's intentions were? Do you feel it was a deliberate text to make a point about your wife's sickness and trying to bully her to make her attend work? Or do you take it as just a bit of information that due to circumstances sickness would cause further complications at work and they are just letting you know.

Either way sending a text means nothing if you do actually get sick and take the day off, it's your previous history that counts.
 
Malakite said:
Personaly I wouldn't call 6-7 days in a year minimal. I've had one day off in the past 3 years and most of the other people in my department have about the same.
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Tis more average I'd say. You can't always help being sick, especially if taking public transport etc... things like flu took out a few people last year at least. If you're working in an office with others then its best not to try and be a hero and come in with stuff like flu as you'll likely end up spreading it- thus it is fairly beneficial for companies to pay sick pay (at least to staff who aren't taking the ****).

I prob had 6 or so days off last year though I'd expect to probably have 1-2 at the most this year as I've changed jobs and have the option of working from home if I'm ill.
 
gary996 said:
What should happen is if you go sick you don't get paid.
That would stop a lot of people just having days off for no reason.
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Then you get people coming in when they shouldn't because they are infectious and they can't afford to go off sick. They give half of the other staff whatever they've got and the intelligent ones or the ones who can afford it go off sick and you are far worse off than if you had just had paid sick leave in the first place. I personally am very rarely off sick and it annoys the hell out of me when people come in spreading their germs about.

As for the OP.... to be clear, these messages are not from the employer but from the individual on call? Is it a colleague who is sending these out or the mangement?
 
I can understand where the person would be coming from as my dad works as a carer. He's at a place for old people and was refused a couple of days holiday after working solid as ever whilst people are off every other day making the patient per member of staff unbearable.

Seems to be a bad part of the care sector hearing stories from other people.
 
Clairvoyant said:
Ok, at the weekends other carers go off sick or they are short of staff.

Its a text to all carers as she has had them even on her weekend off (she does home care).

Her sickness is minimal maybe 6/7 days in this financial year.

The text said this weekend (from the on call person) I dont have a car so dont call in sick. (on call have to cover clients that they can not get other staff to cover).

The one before from another on call person that weekend. Said I am very busy and doing care as well. So do not call in sick.

Thank you for helpful comments.
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I end up sending texts to staff at the weekend as somtimes it is easier to do a group text than working out which staff are not working. I own a home care company and to think the on call care person has not car and they are telling everyone to not call in sick. If I was her boss I would go nuts part of her job is to have a car.
 
wnb said:
I end up sending texts to staff at the weekend as somtimes it is easier to do a group text than working out which staff are not working. I own a home care company and to think the on call care person has not car and they are telling everyone to not call in sick. If I was her boss I would go nuts part of her job is to have a car.
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This. If they're on call, and being paid extra for being so, they should be ready to respond. As a manager, I'd be having some very stern words with them if I found out they were sending messages like this.
 
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