Wallington week clarification needed

[makingsounds]

In our office which have the Wallington week attendance pattern, a colleague worked the first 2 weeks of the 5 week cycle (6 days + 6 days) and was then sick for 6 weeks, which included his rest week. When this has happened in the past, the individual was credited with the 2 days he had worked prior to going sick. Management have said that is incorrect and he should NOT be credited anything, is this correct?

[ninja]

Your manager is wrong and isn't following the actual agreement. The agreement confirms the following:

Sickness
Periods of absence are reckoned as for any other attendance pattern, with each
working day lost to sickness counting towards the spell of absence, together with
any rest days in the middle (but not before the first day or after the last day) of
the sickness.
For lengthy absences, the sick pay rules reckon absences in weeks, based on the
length of time that has elapsed since the first working day lost to absence.
There is no need for any adjustment to attendances because of working days lost
to sickness. Obviously, there is also no need for recording any sickness on days
off during the sixth ‘off’ week (which is equivalent to sickness at a weekend for
someone who works a Monday to Friday job), if no working days are affected.

This is because when sick your bookroom would be showing you as for six days or 45hr:36min on PSP and not 38hrs.

In short this means that you would continue to follow your Wallington pattern and don't lose any days because of sickness.

Therefore, I would suggest that you speak with the local rep and raise a grievance to get any days credited back that have previously been stopped by your manager.

I have also attached the actual agreement.

[Haditup]

Sick days are sick days regardless of what shift pattern anyone is on.
You do not get one day credit if sickness falls on a rotational day off so likewise ,if sickness falls on your rotational week off during a wallington pattern you do not get 1 week credit back.


You only get credit back if your annual leave booked during sickness period.