if you go out to work can you take time off for a cold?

[Skipsurvey]

or do you always have to assume covid?

and do you have to have the three main symptoms required by the test
or does your work let you stay away with a sore throat?

i am amazed at so many people taking time off on mumsnet.
dont your work mind you taking all this time off on a just in case it is covid??
because i have run out of sick leave

I had a cold in September and I didn't take time off. I was snotty, had a headache and was a bit run down. If I felt ill enough I would have taken time off but I was well enough to work and they were happy to have me in as I had none of the main symptoms.

I had a cold, streaming. Carried on working but worked one day from gone to try to limit spread to colleagues. I coughed a bit latterly from mucus from cold but it wasn't 'a cough'.

What strain of cold is it?

how would i know?
sore throat,head ache
sniffly, bunged up
leading to chesty cough
now tickly cough

i guess i just have to man up

Do you have a new cough? Doesn’t mater if it’s tickly or mucus. If it’s a new cough you Need to isolate and test.

i had a test 10 days ago during my cold

If you have a cough.....test

Cross posted!

Ours is medical suspension on full pay until found to be negative and then would be sick if too unwell to work.

Exactly. You don't know that it is 'just' a cold if you haven't had a test. So many people I have spoken to went to work with covid because they thought it was just a cold!

my colleagues would think i was a lunatic having a test so regularly, bit pointless to have another test.

my query was how are all these mumsnetters at home from work not losing their jobs with their sickness record
i feel like a hypochondriac

i had a test 9 days ago

A negative test 9 days ago means you (probably) didn’t have covid 9 days ago. You could easily have caught it since. You need to take a test whenever you have symptoms.

whose work is allowing this behaviour?

Employers dont have a choice. If people need to self isolate for COVID symptoms then they have to self isolate. It's not standard sick leave. What's hard to understand about it?

I am embarrassed to be testing, I have had four tests since April

@Skipsurvey

I am embarrassed to be testing, I have had four tests since April

Have you had symptoms on and off since April?..

My boss came to work with a cold twice during the first lockdown so I assume of I get one I'll be going in.

My work wouldn't allow us to be off all the time we'd get the boot

I don't know if I have over reacting

Exactly jelly bean

A woman at my work has had 4 years since July. On the fourth she tested positive...

Anyone with cold symptoms should get tested. I only had a scratchy throat and felt like I was coming down with a cold and tested positive. I became very unwell for about three weeks. I think the guidance around a new cough is a bit misleading. I know of a few people who thought they just had a cold, or had their usual yearly cough and ended up testing positive.

My only symptoms were headache and nausea. Do another test.

Our work would not sanction test with cold symptoms