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Will I get the sack?

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Post by TrueBlueTerrier »

Thorby Bislam wrote:Another major injustice, they count sundays in when adding up your days off sick.
Despite sunday not ever being a working day. It is really unfair and most people have no idea it is done.
I only found out the hard way.
I have been told by senior posties that if you ring in on Saturday to say you will be in on Monday then they cant count Sunday. Not sure if this is true.
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Post by DGP1 »

Thorby Bislam wrote:Another major injustice, they count sundays in when adding up your days off sick.
Despite sunday not ever being a working day. It is really unfair and most people have no idea it is done.
I only found out the hard way.
Sundays, Bank Holidays, rest days they count everything so 2 weeks should be 10 days but is really 14 days but my argument would be that if I'm not getting paid then I'm not due to work then I shouldn't have the days counted (maybe the union should get this injustice sorted out)
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Post by POSTMAN »

TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
Thorby Bislam wrote:Another major injustice, they count sundays in when adding up your days off sick.
Despite sunday not ever being a working day. It is really unfair and most people have no idea it is done.
I only found out the hard way.
I have been told by senior posties that if you ring in on Saturday to say you will be in on Monday then they cant count Sunday. Not sure if this is true.
That's completely true teebs.
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Post by baldrick »

POSTMAN wrote:
TrueBlueTerrier wrote:
Thorby Bislam wrote:Another major injustice, they count sundays in when adding up your days off sick.
Despite sunday not ever being a working day. It is really unfair and most people have no idea it is done.
I only found out the hard way.
I have been told by senior posties that if you ring in on Saturday to say you will be in on Monday then they cant count Sunday. Not sure if this is true.
That's completely true teebs.
Yes you can ring in to say you are resuming on an exempt day, and make sure you get a resumption number, to
prove you rang, or they may say they have no record of the call.
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Post by madelin4 »

What if you feel your not ready to go back to work and they are asking atos etc for dates and that?? if you give a date say a few weeks away do you have to stick to that in stone????
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Post by TrueBlueTerrier »

madelin4 wrote:What if you feel your not ready to go back to work and they are asking atos etc for dates and that?? if you give a date say a few weeks away do you have to stick to that in stone????
In that situation even on something to do with my own health and if it involved long term sick there is no way I would give them a definite day. My response would be something like - "Well I reckon I should be OK in about 3 weeks or so but I will be guided by my own Doctor as he knows my medical history better than anyone else".

So in a nutshell be as vague as possible but don't take the mickey would be a good general rule.
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