NHS cleaner sacked for taking 400 sick days in four years receives payout

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1. Great hustle. Well done her. Fucking state of it…

2. Probably because they did not follow their own processes correctly. Does not mean they shouldn’t be sacked, may mean the employer didn’t go about it correctly.

3. Uk public sector needs a full overhaul imho.

4. This won’t help the usual NHS pass the parcel of useless employees.

5. tl;dr: This person’s boss and the hospital in general wrongly said they weren’t disabled. They refused reasonable adjustments, refused to accept a lot of the sickness absence was due to the disability, and ultimately fired them because of it. Pretty much a textbook case of unlawful disability discrimination.

6. Here’s me who has only taken a few days sick leave during covid.

7. Glad she was fired. I’m in NHS management and have fired so many for sickness over the years. It’s not hard but does mean going through the right steps. Junior managers get confused between real and made-up sickness and think a doctors note protects a person forever.
   The rules are pretty simple, even a cancer patient going through treatment has to be able to return to work and do the job they are employed for ( with adjustments if needed). If they can’t or won’t agree a return to work plan then they go.

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9. Who pays her sick money when she’s off work?, wouldn’t she have to go to job centre and claim sick money so the NHS wouldn’t have to pay her wage ?

10. I’d love to see the OH report that said she wasn’t disabled.

    Given the apparent timelines I can only assume they had concluded it was either faked, or entirely cured.

11. I didn’t think cleaners worked directly for the NHS?

12. Fuck me that was stupid of them. How do you work as a manager in the NHS and get away with denying someone has a disability when you are told they have one.

    Hope the manager was fired after this shit show.

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