Hi,

I've been offline all weekend, so have only just seen this thread. I was going to suggest talking to MacMillan but you've already done that.

If you're not in a Union, your HR rules may allow you to take a friend in with you to act as an advocate. It might be handy to have someone there to speak for you if you are lost for words - these meetings can be quite stressful. 

One of the questions I always asked when chairing similar meetings was "what do you want to get out of this meeting?" so be prepared for that one.

In my own meetings following my diagnosis, I went from wanting to return to work as soon as I was able to through to wanting to take early retirement as soon as possible. 

Good luck with the meeting, I hope it goes well!

Dave

Hi, 

Hope your recovery is going as well as can be expected.

Myself and my partner have a business employing 14 members of staff, unless you are of work for stress, depression etc they can call you in for a meeting as they have a duty of care towards you. 

It will more than likely be a tick box excercise to see if they can offer you support, however I would highly recommend that you take someone with you to act as a witness. This can be either a colleague or friend. Unfortunately some businesses do not play by the rules so you need someone with you as an extra pair of ears.

If you need any advise on employee law then please let me know as I would be more than happy to help x

Thank you Dave and Becs...some sound advice there. I have someone coming with me who is going to jot some notes Down. Meeting is Wednesday.

Hi cornish

just picked up this thread.  How did your meeting go?

if you have any specific questions or concerns pm me. My daughter works in HR for a large company. She is a people person and a very sympathetic sort.  She will be on your side I know. She may be able to give the info from the employers  perspective that may help you.

sundial

Hiya sundial. It actually went well. Instead of doing it as a formal stage of our sickness disciplinary the did it as a case conference. He tolkd my manager that they will not request any more meetings for 3months. The are also referring me to occ health so they  can get all necessary adjustments in place before I return to work. This will include things like phased return, equipment, breaks from the computer to rest my arm and reduced monthly performance targets. So all in all it was a good meeting. 

Thank you so much sundial. I will come find you if I need anything specific answered x

Hello

You dont have to answer anything that you are not comfortable answering, if you are concerned about the questioning then refuse the meeting until you have a legal representative or either let them know that you will be recording the meeting for notes.

hope it goes well 

Hi Cornishpastie,

After all that worry, I'm glad to hear that things went well today.

Kind regards,

Jolamine xx