What is a reasonable amount of time for sick leave?

[Groucho]

Remember now - its the Bradford Factor

Allergies and asthma score more scivy points than a long bout of the 'flu' in that #July week when yuo asked for leave but didn't get it.

Women with v bad period pains more likely to be scivers than someone who is sick for a week every Wimbledon and for the Cheltenham races.

 

[cesare]

Remember now - its the Bradford Factor

Like anything isn't it - a system only as good as those using it. Any idiots using that system without properly analysing anything it throws up will discredit it (and themselves). It's an unwieldy trigger system is all, a very very basic tool. It can't replace decent absence management.

It takes me back to the days when retailers used to publish league tables of cashier scan rates ffs

 

[quimcunx]

Someone I know's work paid her in full for 6 months and 3/4 of her salary for 3 years! Probably cos they were worried they might be liable for a seemingly sourceless but very real condition probably brought on by stress. after she resigned it got cureded in a few weeks.

 

[quimcunx]

I have been with my new company for 10 working days and have already had 1 sick day but have actually been very sick since the day I started. Another member of staff who seemed to be as sick as me took 4.5 days off over the same period. I actually think that had I been working here longer I would have taken a little longer off work and recovered quicker....

In my first day at my first job in London, i arrived and while being shown round the office I threw up in two toilets on two floors of the building and went home.

 

[thought]

A reasonable amount of sick leave is as much as you medically need.

However what is a reasonable amount of sick leave is relative to the hours you work, how hard you work, and the size of the business.

If your boss never takes a day off unless they are really ill, then I wouldnt expect you to shirk a bit of light work either. If you had a cold, then I wouldnt want you in, untill the virus side of it had gone away. If it was self indulgenced, eg drinking too much the night before,,, Then hard luck, get yourself into work, and stop wasting the countries money!


As a policy manager, I would lookinto other policies, get legal advice on it, and look at how long the other employers have been in position.

Council sick policies are freely available to the public, this might be a good starting point.

Good luck.. writing the policy is normally the easy bit, enforcing it