Covid absence & Wallington week

[makingsounds]

After testing positive and having 2 weeks off, my manager has told me that I no longer qualify for my rest week next week and must return to work as I haven't accrued the time for my rest week as I was off sick.

Is this correct?

[Woody Guthrie]

No.


This is from Wallington agreement.

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.