My DH was diagnosed as type 2 diabetic last year however recently it's been spiralling out of control and he is under investigation for late diagnosis of type 1 and autoimmune issues.
He's been extremely poorly with his sugars averaging around mid teens but peaking at 33 😳 so he's pretty miserable and has physically been suffering too (headaches, fatigue, swelling etc)
He has only taken one sick day because of this - it was planned overtime and he had to take the day off as he had been admitted to hospital the previous night.
Recently he has had hospital and GP appointments as everyone scrambles to work out what is going on (he is on max dose of two medications and his body is still not responding) and medical personal are now looking into possible type 1 diagnosis and/or autoimmune issues.
The thing is these appointments are all during working hours as that is when the clinics run. His site manager at work is starting to get quite "arsey" about the time off. The site manager is outright complaining about the time off to others at his work place but never directly to DH, and the site manager is being very awkward/stand offish with DH. (once actually outright shouting at DH over a matter that DH had no control over) He has a threatened to remove DH from current role and pretty much depromote him, and now is refusing DHs overtime if he has been off during the week for an appointment.
(he has maybe had approx 4 or 5 appointments that have made him late to work, or have to leave early. Maybe 2 where he has had to have the whole day off for testing)
For background - DH works regular overtime every weekend. His line manager is outraged that this has been taken off him as the work DH does impacts everyone else's ability to get on with their work. Effectively it holds the whole job back if he is not there.
Now the site manager is saying DH didn't work the overtime he did (before the site manager decided he wasn't allowed to anymore...) and DH is having the fight for payroll to investigate time sheets etc to get the money he has earned.
My question is where do we stand with this?
Can the site manager really make DHs life hard because he has medical appointments/issues at the moment? The stress of it all isn't helping DH at all.
Considered going off sick on advice of GP but his work doesn't have sick pay so we would be reliant on the DWP sick pay and to be honest we couldn't live on that for any length of time.
We have contacted HR as above but have been rebuffed quite a bit with a blanket "will look into it" statement.