31 days hol (28 until you’ve been there 3 years) +3 bank holidays
Anything up to 3 days sick is unpaid, but the boss would let us use holiday if we wanted for the odd day or two. Self-cert up to 7 days, sick note from then on. Think its up to 6 months full pay once you’ve been there a year.
3 periods of sick in a year = tea and biscuits stage 1
Another 3 within 12 months of that = tea and biscuits stage 2
Another 3 within 12 months of that = tea and biscuits stage 3 and potential tin tack
As for travel costs, I’ve just swapped from a car that was drinking 35 quid of fuel a week to one that’s uses 20, (and is 130 quid less a year to tax and 150 quid cheaper to insure)
think if we’re off long term sick we stop getting paid in full at some point but no idea how long
if we’re off sick more than 3 times in a year we have to have a meeting about it that can turn into a disciplinary type thing if we’re off again within a certain time (unless it relates to a chronic medical condition/disability)
seems a bit much to me given how easy it would be to have 3 separate minor illnesses in a year that would prevent you from working for a day or two
Yeah, we’ve got a similar thing where I work. Seems a bit unfair to be honest, plus now people come in with stinking colds, etc which means everyone gets it. Not great for productivity.
my work has relaxed the working from home policy recently, thank god, meaning that people who come in with all sorts of germs insisting on working can now be sent home with a laptop. i work in a call centre so working from home isn’t ideal but where you’ve got people coming in with awful coughs or whatever they can’t really be put on the phones anyway
sadly they often don’t get sent home before they’ve coughed and sneezed all over a desk that someone else is going to have to sit at later