Stage 0 to Stage 2.

[SomePostie]

Hi,

I have been pretty unlucky with illness this year.

Rather than ramble I will just bullet point a timeline;

I work a 3 day week - so a week off is 3 days but not sure it is calculated like that when dealing with absence.

Aug/Sept - Sick and trigger AR1.
March - Stage 1 drops off. Absence = 0
April - Off sick for 1 week. (Had return work on my next shift no AR triggered)
May - Had 1 week off (Had return to work - no AR triggered)
June - Off sick for 1 week - the week I was meant to return I had accident that lead to surgery and 2 months off.
August - Returned to work - Had Return to Work meeting for both previous absences and also Occupational Therapy discussion for a phase return.

So my question is - since I wasn't on an AR or Stage 1 would I go to Stage 1 after this or would it go straight to Stage 2? Looking at the figures it would make sense to end up on a Stage 2 but I think I remember someone telling me that you can't go from 0 to 2.

[POSTMAN]

6.4.2 Attendance Standards

New Attendance Standards will be introduced on 1st August 2023.
The new Attendance standards attached at Appendix 6 will be 3 absences or 12 days over

12 months at each stage (a rolling 12-month period for attendance review 1).
There will also be changes to the attendance process. When an employee returns to work
following a period of sickness absence, their manager will hold a Welcome Back Meeting to
discuss the absence and understand whether any further support is required. As part of this
approach, Welcome Back Meetings continue to be an important part of the Attendance
Procedure. However, they will also be used by managers to decide whether an absence will
‘count’ towards the Attendance Standards. Managers will continue to have discretion over
which absences are deemed to count, taking into account mitigating factors (e.g. equality act
absences).
The JWG will resolve within the next 3 months any issues relating to the future role and
application of Welcome Back Meetings, Attendance Reviews and the migration of employees
from the former standards to the new approach outlined above.

You could probably see the image better here...
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[worktotime]

there new attendance policy isnt worth the paper its written on , had a hip replacement due to arthritis and returned to work and had a back to work meeting and no mention of a stage or not , i was given a letter on saturday and surprise suprise it was a stage 1 this was already signed and dated 3 days after my return to work meeting and was given the letter 8 days later , even thought OHS had put in there reports this is part of the equality act which they was aware of so i wont be accepting that .

[pieoftheday]

I recently got a stage 1 issued, no return to work meeting

[worktotime]

I recently got a stage 1 issued, no return to work meeting

so basically the company yet again are just doing anything they want to again and f**k the agreements and yet walsh , ward and company are allowing them to it with no fight back , so why are the cwu still even talking to them and never mind agreeing trials etc .