Sickness - no policy for adults

[Covidwoes]

Hi everyone, I've had a sick bug which started Monday afternoon. Still feeling very weak and have lots of body aches & a fever on and off (not Covid, test was negative), so taking the day off to recover.
Work have been nice (I'm a teacher), but when I mentioned it hadn't been 48h since the last bout of sickness, they said the 48h rule doesn't apply to adults in the workplace, just children. Is that right? I know it's tricky as if you have a migraine and are sick, you don't need the 48h. What's the policy in your workplace? I know it's irrelevant as I'm not in today anyway, but I'd hate to pass this on to the children and staff I work with, as it has been horrible!

I think the rationale is adults maintain better hygiene so can return earlier. I've always gone back to work when I felt better but my current manager suggests we need to wfh after a sickness bug. I don't think that's an actual policy though, and clearly wfh is tricky as a teacher. (It's fairly tricky in my role too).

In theory 48 hours since last 'episode' for us (NHS) but suspect in practise it's not always adhered to.

I’m a teacher and my school ask us to stick to it for sickness bugs yes (but when they knew I was pregnant and had morning sickness they obviously didn’t ask me to take 48 hours off after that!) Adults have better hand hygiene so less likely to spread IMO so not needing 48 hours is possibly ok.

Ours is definitely 48 hours since last episode of D&V (also NHS).

I imagine some places (NHS, food preparation) they stick to the 48 hour rule.

It's never been a stated rule in any office job I've had. Although nowadays no one would be fussed if I didn't go to the office as many days as I was supposed to one week because I was recovering from D&V so wfh a bit more.

That's really interesting to hear! I'm guessing in schools it is due to children not practising hygiene as well as adults. I understand why you'd have to stay off in the NHS though.

The secondary school my DC attends has now gone down to 24 hours I was surprised to learn. Work doesn't have a policy but I tend to do 24 hours/WFH.