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To find this unacceptable?

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LeopardPrint12 · 20/09/2024 14:00

Went to pick up my neighbours daughter from nursery today. I noticed there was one staff member clutching her stomach and looking unwell. She was bank staff as have seen her before. I asked if she was OK and she said she had just vomited in the toilets but had been told she wasn't allowed to go home due to staffing levels and needing a level 3 worker in the room !
Aibu to say this is unacceptable?

OP posts:
Nourishinghandcream · 20/09/2024 14:18

What is the option, call every parent and tell them they have to collect their children immediately with no exceptions?
With a staffing crisis in childcare, looks like they are trying to make the best of a bad job.

nutrosti · 20/09/2024 14:15

LeopardPrint12 · 20/09/2024 14:14

So you think it's acceptable that a member of staff is clearly sick and contagious (No, not pregnant) and has to stay in the room working until 6PM?
I called my neighbour and she is going to speak to management.

oh she told you that in order to appease you op

nutrosti · 20/09/2024 14:15

LeopardPrint12 · 20/09/2024 14:14

So you think it's acceptable that a member of staff is clearly sick and contagious (No, not pregnant) and has to stay in the room working until 6PM?
I called my neighbour and she is going to speak to management.

oh don’t be daft op

no none of us do

but we think safety trumps avoiding the risk of someone getting a bug

Original poster
LeopardPrint12 · 20/09/2024 14:14

So you think it's acceptable that a member of staff is clearly sick and contagious (No, not pregnant) and has to stay in the room working until 6PM?
I called my neighbour and she is going to speak to management.

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ChimneySweepLiverpool · 20/09/2024 14:09

I have worked in that industry and its not uncommon to have to push through when sick. Its bad management to not have back up but maybe other staff members hadn't shown off. Often the manager will step in to let staff go home

nutrosti · 20/09/2024 14:07

i hat did you neighbour say when you told her?

nutrosti · 20/09/2024 14:07

what was your solution if you’d been management?

Highlandspringg · 20/09/2024 14:06

If she sent her home and it was below legal requirements how would you feel?

TeenToTwenties · 20/09/2024 14:02

Which is worse, an ill member of staff, or going below legal staffing ratios?

BrimfulofSasha · 20/09/2024 14:02

Depends was she vomiting in a contagious way, or because she is pregnant?