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BingBong
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Stage one...

Post by BingBong »

Can someone tell me how long a stage one lasts for please? My stage was issued back in January of last year. I'm off sick currently but have had no absence since it was issued. Will get a stage 2? I've read a stage one only lasts 6 months now?
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Re: Stage one...

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BingBong wrote:Can someone tell me how long a stage one lasts for please? My stage was issued back in January of last year. I'm off sick currently but have had no absence since it was issued. Will get a stage 2? I've read a stage one only lasts 6 months now?
A stage 1 formal notification is for 4 absences or 14 days in a 12 month period. As your stage 1 was issued in January 2014 your question is irrelevant as this has now expired and you would have a clear absence history.
You will only get a stage 2 formal notification if your present absence exceeds the RM standard of 2 absences or 10 days in a fixed 6 month period.
If your present illness exceeds 9 days you will be considered for a stage 1 unless you can provide mitigating circumstances for your absence.
Remember the issuing of a stage 1 is not mandatory and would be left to the decision of your manager.
Keetz
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Re: Stage one...

Post by Keetz »

rehabron wrote:
BingBong wrote:Can someone tell me how long a stage one lasts for please? My stage was issued back in January of last year. I'm off sick currently but have had no absence since it was issued. Will get a stage 2? I've read a stage one only lasts 6 months now?
A stage 1 formal notification is for 4 absences or 14 days in a 12 month period. As your stage 1 was issued in January 2014 your question is irrelevant as this has now expired and you would have a clear absence history.
You will only get a stage 2 formal notification if your present absence exceeds the RM standard of 2 absences or 10 days in a fixed 6 month period.
If your present illness exceeds 9 days you will be considered for a stage 1 unless you can provide mitigating circumstances for your absence.
Remember the issuing of a stage 1 is not mandatory and would be left to the decision of your manager.
Is that 12 months since your first absence?
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Re: Stage one...

Post by arnold cheshire »

rehabron wrote:
BingBong wrote:Can someone tell me how long a stage one lasts for please? My stage was issued back in January of last year. I'm off sick currently but have had no absence since it was issued. Will get a stage 2? I've read a stage one only lasts 6 months now?
A stage 1 formal notification is for 4 absences or 14 days in a 12 month period. As your stage 1 was issued in January 2014 your question is irrelevant as this has now expired and you would have a clear absence history.
You will only get a stage 2 formal notification if your present absence exceeds the RM standard of 2 absences or 10 days in a fixed 6 month period.
If your present illness exceeds 9 days you will be considered for a stage 1 unless you can provide mitigating circumstances for your absence.
Remember the issuing of a stage 1 is not mandatory and would be left to the decision of your manager.
"if your present illness exceeds 9 days "? do you mean 13 days ?
rehabron
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Re: Stage one...

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arnold cheshire wrote:
rehabron wrote:
BingBong wrote:Can someone tell me how long a stage one lasts for please? My stage was issued back in January of last year. I'm off sick currently but have had no absence since it was issued. Will get a stage 2? I've read a stage one only lasts 6 months now?
A stage 1 formal notification is for 4 absences or 14 days in a 12 month period. As your stage 1 was issued in January 2014 your question is irrelevant as this has now expired and you would have a clear absence history.
You will only get a stage 2 formal notification if your present absence exceeds the RM standard of 2 absences or 10 days in a fixed 6 month period.
If your present illness exceeds 9 days you will be considered for a stage 1 unless you can provide mitigating circumstances for your absence.
Remember the issuing of a stage 1 is not mandatory and would be left to the decision of your manager.
"if your present illness exceeds 9 days "? do you mean 13 days ?
Ok before my posting should have established if Bing Bong on her present illness has been off since January 2015 making her presence absence of at least 2 months. If her present illness has commenced 12 months after the date of issue of the first stage 1 formal notification then she started this absence with a clean record. This being so then she will receive a stage 1 for her current absence,
What is not abundantly clear is if by being previously a stage 1 formal notification would she be given a further 12 months of 4 absences or 14 days or go direct to a fixed 6 months.
If the original stage 1 is still active then if she incurs an absence of over 9 days then this will become a stage 2 formal notification unless she improves on the standard set by RM for this period.
BingBong
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Re: Stage one...

Post by BingBong »

rehabron wrote:
arnold cheshire wrote:
rehabron wrote:
BingBong wrote:Can someone tell me how long a stage one lasts for please? My stage was issued back in January of last year. I'm off sick currently but have had no absence since it was issued. Will get a stage 2? I've read a stage one only lasts 6 months now?
A stage 1 formal notification is for 4 absences or 14 days in a 12 month period. As your stage 1 was issued in January 2014 your question is irrelevant as this has now expired and you would have a clear absence history.
You will only get a stage 2 formal notification if your present absence exceeds the RM standard of 2 absences or 10 days in a fixed 6 month period.
If your present illness exceeds 9 days you will be considered for a stage 1 unless you can provide mitigating circumstances for your absence.
Remember the issuing of a stage 1 is not mandatory and would be left to the decision of your manager.
"if your present illness exceeds 9 days "? do you mean 13 days ?
Ok before my posting should have established if Bing Bong on her present illness has been off since January 2015 making her presence absence of at least 2 months. If her present illness has commenced 12 months after the date of issue of the first stage 1 formal notification then she started this absence with a clean record. This being so then she will receive a stage 1 for her current absence,
What is not abundantly clear is if by being previously a stage 1 formal notification would she be given a further 12 months of 4 absences or 14 days or go direct to a fixed 6 months.
If the original stage 1 is still active then if she incurs an absence of over 9 days then this will become a stage 2 formal notification unless she improves on the standard set by RM for this period.
just to clarify my stage 1 was issued in jan 2014.

ive not been off sick since until this week.

hope this helps.
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Re: Stage one...

Post by aiden01 »

you are not on any stages then as your record has been clear for over a year :thumbup
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Re: Stage one...

Post by wozza1000 »

If you are absent for 6 days in a row or 2 lots of 3 days 1 after another in any 12 month period during any 6 months, you will be 3 absences away from a stage 1. If in a 6 month period you do this more than once every 12 months, you will also be issued a stage 1.
If in the next 6 months you have more than 2 absences, in a 12 month period, you will reach stage 2, also if you have more than 10 days but less than 11, you will reach a stage 2, if you have less than 5 days but more than 4, you will go back to stage 1, as long as that happened in 6 months and not 12, otherwise you can only have 2 absences of no more than 4 days each, but totalling no more than 7 days, or 5 if has only been 6 months, if while on a stage 2 you have another 2 absences during a 6 month period or 1 absence of 11 days but not more that 6, you may be issued a stage 3, but only if you have not had more that a total of 6 days absent but not more than 5 in a row , or 3 lots of 4, unless 6 months have passed since your first absence or 12 months from your 2nd absence that does not total more than 1 lot of 4 days or 2 lots of 3 days in a row. :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

I think I'm right in saying that's how the stage procedure goes!!
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Re: Stage one...

Post by bogstandard »

you're off the procedure, you have met the business standards in the 6 months following you the stage 1 according to your posts.
those stamdards are a single absence of 4 days or fewer in the following 6 months, and this applies to all stages.
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