Sick days / mental health days

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Mad Eyed Screamer

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The place where I work gives me 15 days holidays, one personal day (which is 8 hours and can be spread out for eg 2 hours for a dental appointment) 2 mental health days and you accrue sick time to the amount of 10 days a year and it can be carried over into the next year.

There are 3 staff members at work just taking the piss and constantly calling out and using a sick day and always a Friday or Monday so having a lovely 3 day weekend.

One of them had used all her sick days up so simply called in Friday and said she was using up her final “mental health days” up.

This system is encouraging folk to take days off that they wouldn’t if there was no sick pay and doesn’t reward those who don’t take sick days off when we aren’t sick!

I’ve always been proud that I’ve always had an excellent attendance record at work yet surrounded by slackers and chancers taking the piss.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
The place where I work gives me 15 days holidays, one personal day (which is 8 hours and can be spread out for eg 2 hours for a dental appointment) 2 mental health days and you accrue sick time to the amount of 10 days a year and it can be carried over into the next year.

There are 3 staff members at work just taking the piss and constantly calling out and using a sick day and always a Friday or Monday so having a lovely 3 day weekend.

One of them had used all her sick days up so simply called in Friday and said she was using up her final “mental health days” up.

This system is encouraging folk to take days off that they wouldn’t if there was no sick pay and doesn’t reward those who don’t take sick days off when we aren’t sick!

I’ve always been proud that I’ve always had an excellent attendance record at work yet surrounded by slackers and chancers taking the piss.
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15 days off a year I don't blame them for using the mental health days, shite that. For reference I get 6 months full sick pay 3 months full pay paternity, 35 days holiday including birthday off and 5 volunteer days.
 
Maddy, Whilst the gist of your post is about staff taking the piss, 15 days holidays is a piss take. I've never understood the American workers acceptance of this.
You want staff to he honest, that would mean that if they are not sick and do not feel the need to take mental health days off either, 15 days is there lot.
Effectively 3 weeks assuming a 5 day week.

I'm with Scotty, I don't blame them
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
The place where I work gives me 15 days holidays, one personal day (which is 8 hours and can be spread out for eg 2 hours for a dental appointment) 2 mental health days and you accrue sick time to the amount of 10 days a year and it can be carried over into the next year.

There are 3 staff members at work just taking the piss and constantly calling out and using a sick day and always a Friday or Monday so having a lovely 3 day weekend.

One of them had used all her sick days up so simply called in Friday and said she was using up her final “mental health days” up.

This system is encouraging folk to take days off that they wouldn’t if there was no sick pay and doesn’t reward those who don’t take sick days off when we aren’t sick!

I’ve always been proud that I’ve always had an excellent attendance record at work yet surrounded by slackers and chancers taking the piss.
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In fairness its pretty bad holiday allocation, the mental health blah de blah is just nonsense. Just give people a decent number of holidays.

Is there any statutory sick pay in the land of the brave?
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
The place where I work gives me 15 days holidays, one personal day (which is 8 hours and can be spread out for eg 2 hours for a dental appointment) 2 mental health days and you accrue sick time to the amount of 10 days a year and it can be carried over into the next year.

There are 3 staff members at work just taking the piss and constantly calling out and using a sick day and always a Friday or Monday so having a lovely 3 day weekend.

One of them had used all her sick days up so simply called in Friday and said she was using up her final “mental health days” up.

This system is encouraging folk to take days off that they wouldn’t if there was no sick pay and doesn’t reward those who don’t take sick days off when we aren’t sick!

I’ve always been proud that I’ve always had an excellent attendance record at work yet surrounded by slackers and chancers taking the piss.
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Whilst I sympathize pal I’ll say one thing, there was a lad at work who prided himself on 100% attendance he used to get a lovely certificate off the chief every year, then a couple of years before he retired he had to have time off for an operation and then some other stuff, this affected his attendance for that year, you know what they did they took his Continued professional development pay off him because he’d had too much sick that year, all genuine hospital stuff I may add. This affected his pension, he was fucking furious, all this years he had never been sick counted for fuck all, yet we had people who took their “annual” sick leave every year playing the system. Obviously we took the piss but on a serious note, employers will fuck you off at their convenience so I’ve always took the attitude of fuck them as well.
 
Scottyboi said:
15 days off a year I don't blame them for using the mental health days, shite that. For reference I get 6 months full sick pay 3 months full pay paternity, 35 days holiday including birthday off and 5 volunteer days.
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6 months full sick pay with a sick note of course. These twats are just taking the days off here and there with no proof needed.
 
hilts said:
In fairness its pretty bad holiday allocation, the mental health blah de blah is just nonsense. Just give people a decent number of holidays.

Is there any statutory sick pay in the land of the brave?
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You can claim from social security but nothing from the employer or in my medical coverage plan I can opt into a scheme where I would get paid if long term sick - but that of course means my monthly premium for my medical coverage would go up!
 
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