Can I ask what a new employer sees as excessive sick leave?

[Moanyoldcow]

Just that really. I'm currently pregnant and having some health issues. I am going to have to take some sick leave and am just worried about my sickness record.

I've hardly been sick the past two years (2/3 times a year) but will probably go up to nearer 10 this year.

I'm not planning to look for new work necessarily but you never know. Would a new employer find 15 days sick over the last two years unacceptable?

No companies can punish for it. You do monitor it, you have to in case of a redundancy review.
It's very clear that lots of companies punish for it! There are people put on a disciplinary for being off sick 3 times in 1 year. That puts you on the road to dismissal if you don't get healthier.

Recording it is fine, but that is not the same is monitoring and I much prefer the adult trusting environment to the one where disciplinaries are triggered so easily.

Where I work (public sector) it's 3 instances in a year and/or 10 days.
More than that and disciplinary kicks in.

I consider 2/3 days a year quite a lot. I've had 4 days sick (1 for a bug, 3 for a miscarriage where I was hospitalised) in the last 9ish years, then again I don't receive any sick pay.

Please take the time off op. I soldiered through in my pregnancy and ended up vomiting and then fainting at work and then when I asked to go to hospital my manager said 'well you have had a lot of time off sick'. I ended up having a very serious episode due to the anxiety she caused and had to be in hospital for a week.
Just take the time off, pregnancy related sickness is different and won't be on your record. Fuck anyone who says anything because your health comes first. As long as you're not faking it you'll be fine

I have ME from struggling through and carrying on whilst having a flu virus, it's left me disabled and unable to work for the last 20+ years, oh and with the joy of pretty much constant pain 24/7. People get sick, they should be allowed to rest and recover, the whole way people who are ill are treated is utterly utterly wrong and I totally despair of every managing to have a job again, and often of even surviving another year with the way illness and disability is treated by current government and policies; I often think I'd just be best off dead

often of even surviving another year with the way illness and disability is treated by current government and policies

Adara you've obviously been through a bad time health-wise, but I think you may be mixing up the way the government has handled benefit cuts, with policies set for managing workplace absences which are very different issues and not controlled by Government in private companies. We can't blame them for that!

The government has been appalling in their treatment of people with disabilities and illness, but absenteeism in private sector costs businesses billions each year - £11 Bn estimated in 2015

www.personneltoday.com/hr/sickness-absence-rates-and-costs-revealed-in-uks-largest-survey/

Policies for absenteeism are important and necessary.

4% is a trigger point for review in my experience, also relevant is if the absence is for one long period (e.g. Recuperation from an op) vs lots of small absences, especially on Mon/Fri

2-3 days!!! Bloody hell, that is harsh people. In a typical year I'll get at least one bad cold (2-3 days), my back will go out at least once (1 day), and I'll have at least 5 migraines that don't respond to prescription pills. Should I just give up working? Not everyone has a robust constitution.

Most workplaces inCanada give @ least 12 days a year (some union sites give 15 + long term disability).