Crutches for 6/8 weeks - commute/taxi etc

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I have a stress fracture in my femur and I have been told to use crutches for 6/8 weeks. I have been working from home for 2 weeks but would like to go in to the office. Pain now is minimal and crutches fine. My normal commute is impractical - walk/train/walk and then reversed. I could get a lift from home in the mornings but that still leaves me with a train journey to a city centre and 3 taxi journeys of c.£5 each. Can/should I ask work to pay for taxis? A return taxi from home to office would be £100.

If you just need to cover the next 4 weeks of your say, 6 week recovery, an option could be to:

work remotely for a couple of days a week
take one day's annual leave per week and
ask for a contribution from your company for the remaining days travel costs, with you paying the balance - rather than them paying all the travel costs?

At least you'd be showing willing. Personally I wouldn't expect the company to pay the entire cost.

I don't think it's your company's responsibility to pay for your travel at all, why should they?

However do you have any sort of health insurance? This is the sort of thing that it can be used for

I thought medical insurance pays for treatment, I didn't know it covered the cost of getting to and from work.

I am not taking annual leave, whilst I want to show willing I do not think I should have to take holiday. All my treatment has been on my employer's health insurance so far so could ask the insurers. If a doctor signs me off for 6 weeks then my employer cannot argue, or we have to agree suitable arrangements? I actually want to go in to the office, getting cabin fever at home.

I would just get signed off personally!

If it's possible to work from home and there is little pain it is unlikely that a doctor would be willing to sign her off from work entirely.
Unfortunately you cannot expect your company to pay your transport costs (and even if they do it will have a tax implication with it being your usual place of employment). Continuing to work from home on the majority of days while paying for your own taxis a couple of times a week is probably the best solution or you might be able to get a colleague to drop you at the station near to work if any drive to work.

Was the injury work related?

Were you signed off for six weeks? If so you would need to have a back to work meeting with your employer anyway and I think get a fit for work statement for doctor.

I had similar issue many years ago and my office paid my taxi fares every day to have me in, working remotely wasn't much of a thing then though, it was about £60 per day in 1998.

My husband had a stress fracture some years ago and he still went to work. That involved me giving him a lift to the railway station and him getting train and tube to office, and the same in reverse.

He used one crutch. I don't think it was very easy for him but he didn't think he could take sick leave for six weeks and his job is mainly office based although he did the odd day at home and took some AL during the six weeks.

D'S worked in an outdoor summer activity job with a stress fracture. If you can't walk with the crutches, just get the lift, train and the short £5 taxi.

Taxi/train/taxi and shorten your hours so you don't have to do rush hour on the train. You can't expect work to pay £100 a pop because you have cabin fever!

I can't walk full stop, right leg does not work, I have to use crutches. A minor slip or bump could mean a major operation. But my brain is fine so I don't think I should be signed off sick. Lifts not really a possibility, maybe to local station but no-one drives to the office.