Search Results

If anybody says something about you only working 4 days a week, you say "well, I'm on a 32 hour contract" (or whatever your hours are, assuming it's 80% of what's customary in your country). Only the …

I'm sorry to tell you this, but if a company gives you a test with five days (including weekend) to complete it, without offering you any payment, then this is a company that should be avoided at all …

To a great degree you are at home sick because the company doesn’t want you to come in and infect everyone, and that is actually the biggest reason. The other reason is that with some illnesses you …

Let's say a person feels ill, finds a place where they can have a peaceful rest for half an hour, and you throw them out because it is the lactation room. If that person was me, I might go to HR, sa …

I go on holiday at times when I would be perfectly fine to work, and therefore perfectly fine to enjoy my holiday. I take sick leave when I'm not capable of working (or if there is something infectiou …

To answer the headline of the question: In that case, you leave, see a doctor, and if the boss complains you complain as high up as possible about them. While strep throat is deeply unpleasant, and …

Your colleague behaved in an absolutely unacceptable way. He also damaged the business (customer lost confidence). There are two reasons why I might tell a customer about your illness: One is utter st …

It seems your company is run quite badly - the result is that nobody (except you and maybe a few others) gives a damn about what happens. In the long term, your company will hurt, but THAT IS NOT YOUR …

If your old colleague wanted his co-workers to know about his condition, then he would tell them. Since he hasn't told them, he doesn't want them to know, so you should respect that and not say anythi …

There is a high likelihood that this term about substituting someone else is there to make sure that you are judged to be "outside IR35", which has significant cost advantages both for you and the com …

There are two possibilities: Someone at the company honestly but incorrectly believes that you owe them the money, or someone at the company is doing this to annoy and to bully you. We don't know. You …

Resigning is rarely the best solution. Resigning means "I don't want to work anymore". It is almost always better to wait for your company to lay you off. If your company lays you off, you will most l …

To show the absurdity of this: You need a life saving operation within the next 3 months. Your doctor says “let’s do it on the 12th of June, and you’ll be in hospital for a week”. You say “sorry, I ca …

If he can't be happy with 80% performance due to recovery, he has to be happy with 0% performance due to sickness. …

Being absent on short notice or no notice is something that you should obviously try to avoid, especially if you miss important meetings because of that. Your manager will be understandably annoyed by …