DH disciplinary over covid isolation

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Hi looking for any advice here as feeling rather stressed for my DH.

DH and DD tested positive for covid last week they were told isolation would be up this Saturday unless they are testing negative (still testing positive today) DH work were ringing from Monday asking when he will be back in and on the Tuesday his manager told him to stop testing as he needs to be in work on Friday and over the weekend. DH reluctantly agrees that if he was ok then he would. I also tested Positive late last week but was fine for days, until Wednesday since when I have barely left the bed unless it was to be sick, I've had quite bad symptoms and haven't been able to keep food down for days, temp of 39+ and extremely bad shivers/aches. I told DH I really didn't think I'm up to taking care of the kids as I feel honestly awful. My DH himself still looks and feels pretty awful too. He contacted his boss yesterday to say he will not be able to work as I am ill, he needs to watch the kids and he himself still doesn't feel up to it. His boss has today rang and said they will need a formal meeting next week and that he's caused so much trouble with this, I am a SAHM so why can't I watch my kids or sort family to (family obviously reluctant as kids positive too!) the clients aren't happy with him etc etc. It wasn't a very nice phone call and got very heated. I'm just cross as they have put so much pressure on him to return when they knew he should still be isolating. He's feeling so stressed and anxious now that he said he will call the doctor next week as he has
Worked his arse off for them in the past and feels so unappreciated now.

Are they in the wrong? Can they do this?

@vivainsomnia

It doesn't make sense. If he had a positive test on the Thursday, in all likelihood, he started to show symptoms on the Wednesday. So 10 days would be the following Friday. So it was right to expect him to be back the Friday or certainly the Saturday, and you say that your oh agree -reluctantly- (why reluctantly) that he'd be there if well.

Then he calls on that day, not to say that despite the 10 days he is still unwell but because you are. That's not sickness. It could be one day emergency at most.

If that impacted the business, or colleagues of his, then yes, I understand why they would look at a discipline meeting.

You are wrong. Positive LFT on the Thursday (no symptoms before this he woke up feeling unwell Thursday) means his isolation was up yesterday as he still tested positive every day (infact still is testing positive)

The day you test positive is counted as day 0 and it is then 10 days (obviously unless you test neg days 5/6 or so on)

He reluctantly agreed to go back even though he was still in his isolation period and testing positive. He should never of done this.

To be fair he is very unlikely to be infectious by the Saturday and he knew they were struggling and desperate, so he knew not going in again would be promlematic, the then told them the main reason he wasn’t attending was lack of child care. I can also see both sides of this..