Should I tell my new employer.

[ChristinaB1203]

I have been offered my dream job and I'm really pleased. One thing that I can't get out of my mind is that this are going to ask about my sickness record off my current employer.

I have had 2 miscarriage 18 months ago and took 2 weeks off for each. Then 1 period of 4 days when I have norovirus.

Should I explain that the level is going to look high and the reasons why? Or just wait and see if they ask? Worried they will withdraw the offer.

Thanks

Three periods of time off is fine, you won't have a high Bradford factor for that compared to have a day off for a headache every fortnight.

I'm very sorry about your miscarriages.

Don't miscarriages get recorded differently as they're pregnancy related - so in theory shouldn't be on your sickness record?

Sorry for your losses though. And congratulations on the new job!

If your current work knew what the time for the miscarriages was, it shouldnt be included in your ‘normal’ sickness record.

https://maternityaction.org.uk/advice/miscarriage-stillbirth-and-neonatal-death-rights-to-time-off-and-pay-for-parents/

I’m sorry to hear about the miscarriages and congratulations on the new job.

They might not ask and even if they do your current employer might not tell them. Or they might only ask/be told about the last 12 months.

Your miscarriage absence was pregnancy related so should be removed from absence triggers anyway. Assuming your current work knew what that absence was for

Do you know for sure they will a) ask for sickness record and b) current employer will provide it?

I work in HR and this is vanishing rare these days. Most references provided are dates from/ to employed and job title. Its common for a new employer to ask for everything under the sun but receive only a tombstone reference in response. Any way you can find out?

@IDontHateRainbows yes I have seen a copy of the reference form they have sent and my current employer does provide full references.

Yes my current employer knew they were for miscarriage as my sick note from GP stated 'miscarriage' as reason.

Well if it says miscarriage and they withdraw the offer you can pretty much take them to the cleaners. I wonder if having a word with your current employer and asking them to exclude from your sickness record ob the basis of potential pregnancy discrimination would help?
You've nothing to lose adking if you are moving on. Current employer won't want to be involved in the withdrawal of an offer on pg grounds im sure.

your current employer is very unusual these days in completing these kind of details on a reference. How do you know? I’d just send a reminder to them that if they give absence information the MC info needs removed.

Hopeful bump

What more is there to add?

I hate employment references. Why should one firm you chose to work for for a while get to lob a grenade into your career.

This is what holds people back in life.

What do you need a hopeful bump for? You’ve had the advice you need. A thank you to the helpful posters might have been nice?

A decent employer would ask if they had an issue with your level of absence.

So if they ask, just tell them.

Pps have said your MCs count as maternity related absence, which doesnt add to your record. (Which makes sense though I didn't know MCs counted as maternity absence, thank goodness they do.)

But even if you didn't have your MCs recorded as maternity related absence, your bradford score across two years would be:

3×3×14 = 126 across two years.

Anything below 100 per year is generally considered really typical, I understand.

If you had lots of single days off here and there, it'd be different.

A colleague of mine takes around two single days off per month for things like backache (not saying that's not genuine ofc) but 20 single days off a year gives you a Bradford score of 8000.

Your three absences won't even register compared to others.