Pregnancy Related Sickness / Miscarriage

[Jools1]

Hi

I have read somewhere that any pregnancy related sickness should not go on an employee's ordinary sickness record.

Does anyone know if this also applies to time off following a miscarriage ?

I was off sick for a month earlier this year with a severe bout of gastroenteritis, so am nervous about being signed off for another couple of weeks - miscarried on Tuesday but was on leave till Thurs, so am just off sick with an unspecified problem at the moment.

I'm not sure whether to make the reason public or not but definitely need to take more time off as I'm still in pain and emotionally all over the place.

Anyone know if an mc would be counted as pregnancy related sickness ?

thanks

sorry I'm sure it does Jools. if you get a sick cert to cover you, then only the person receiving it will need to know and it'll give you more time to decide whether you want to make it public at work.

hi jools,

i am very sorry to hear about your miscarriage. I had time off work earlier this year due to mc and was assured that it would be treated as pregnancy sickness and could not be used against me as a disciplinary matter.

However, I now have another issue - I am applying for a new job and they are asking me to state my number of sick days in the last 12 months on the application form. If I include the pregnancy sickness without an explanation they will likely dismiss my application out of hand, but I have asked my HR dept and they say that this sickness is reportable to a future employer. So, if I don't include it and they check, then I will be a liar.

Does anyone know anything about this situation? I don't really want to write on the form the reason for the sickness, but can't see any way round it if my current employer is going to tell anyway.....

thanks

I'm so sorry to hear what your going through.

Pregnacy sickness is covered through the sex discrimination laws because obviously it only happens to women.

I would tell someone at work as they can only give you the best help if they know all the facts.

Please do not worry, I doubt that ANY employer would persue displinary action due to a trigger being hit as the MOS went though a miscarrige.

I'm sure that flowery et al will come alone shortly and reassure you.

tric - start a seperate thread, can't help on that one. btw this is over a month old now, jools may not want it resurrected