SICKNESS

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I got pulled into the office today for an "informal" chat about sickness. He pulled up my sick days from the past 3 years. I'm just wondering can work "trigger" this informal meeting by bringing up sick leaves days from 3 years ago or is it in the last year? Can anyone advise?

What does your organisations attendance policy say?

Read your managing attendance policy

Generally it’s calculated over the period of a year but different places set their own policy
There may be a pattern etc

There is nothing to stop them bringing up sickness absence from three years ago. I remember talking to a member of staff one time about the fact that she went off sick like clockwork every October half term. It took a few years before I spotted the pattern.

do you have a lot of time off instances in the last 3 years? is there a pattern?

Was any of your absence due to vaccine side effects, surely those wouldn't count?

No there is no pattern at all. 2019 -2020 I had 2.5 days off and then he is trying to say I had 10 days of from 2020 - 2021. Which is wrong as one of the dates has been put as 2.5, when I only work 2 days a week. So not sure where he has got that?

He is trying to get rid of me ever since I had my babies when he tried to pay me off £2000 whilst I was on maternity to not come back from it. That's the bottom line. He is trying to do anything to get rid of me

Keep a diary if you feel this way OP. I've been through discrimination at work due to pregnancy and becoming a month. Reading your post actually brought back hideous memories of what I went through. They never used absences with me as they'd have been silly, they were all medical and pregnancy related but what they did was try to make out I was under performing and put me on warnings, set targets then at meetings when I thought I'd hit them, they had moved the goalposts. They made my life hell. Not only that, the sexual harassment was horrendous. I cried daily about the comments made to me and my genitals and all the occasions my top would be pulled up and ridiculed for not having a big bump. Apparently that meant I was going to be a bad mom! it was clear what they were doing. They wanted me to leave or they were going to find a way to get rid of me and make it look genuine. One day I'd had enough and I called them out telling them I knew exactly what they were doing which they denied. This gave me some breathing space as they let up and all of a sudden I'd improved. I then left for maternity and thought it would end. Unfortunately their bullying, harrasment and discrimination continued into my maternity leave and I had to take things further.

Please keep a log of everything. I had pages and pages and pages. I even had witness statements it was so bad. If you feel he is trying to get rid of you unfairly make sure you log everything and take it further if you need to. I must admit mine was a particularly bad case but if you feel he has a motive then just be sensible and gather what you can. Because he could end up being in alot of touble