Should I discuss amount of sick days with HR?

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

The past 6 months I have been ill or working from home because of the illness for about 2-3 href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/days">days a month. I realise this is not optimal for an employer, but nobody has complained/asked any questions yet.

The href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/problem">problem is likely to keep occurring for a bit as my doctors still have not figured out what the issue is. Should I notify HR that this might be a recurring issue? Or should I wait for them to approach me about it?

I feel like it leaves a bad href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/reputation">reputation for 'always being sick' and they might suspect I just don't want to go to work.

manpreet 2 years ago

Since you're dutch, I'd like to say that "sick days" is not a common term in the Netherlands.

People will always be sick and the amount of days that you are sick tend to have no effect on your salary or anything similar (not even vacation days). At most it might lower your yearly bonus, if you even have one.

Talk to your manager

If you're going to be sick more frequently, just talk about this to your manager so that he can manage the situation. If he asks you to work at home during those sick days, then he'll most likely count those "sick days" as working days.

9 out of 10 times this is not an issue and life will go on.

The only time you should bother with HR in this situation, is if your manager tells you to contact HR. But it's more likely that he'll do this himself.