Cool :-)

if you are not 100% you should not commit to going back. when you are back unless you ask for new conditions they will just expect you to carry on as you did before

Hi tiger cub. It was ok and I've seen occupational health. Work aren't applying any pressure but I'd like to think I'd start a phased return July or August. I'm just getting to the last week of radiotherapy and don't know how I will be at the end of it so I'm not saying any definitive dates yet. 

I suspect your work are being cautious of taking any actions to get rid of you due to cancer being directly covered by the equality act. Thankfully tgat leaves you to concentrate on your health and treatment hun x

Hi Cornishpastie 

Glad it went  well .some good advice on here from people will come back to it if need to .yes can't discuss work because I'm still on chemo with view for surgery so a way to go yet .good luck 

Hi,

I have been off my work since last February with endogenous depression. Something I didn't ever expect. Over the last 3 years I have lost a few members of my family and friends to cancer and at the time I just had accepted the fact that it happened and just got in wirh life, ie looking after my family and going to work everyday, putting all my worries at the back of my head. Until one day my boss just came out with all this stuff which to me was the straw that broke the camel's back. I broke down, I lost the plot, cant even remember driving home that night. :-( 

My GP signed me off straight away for 8 weeks and its been like that ever since. To be blunt, my employer has only sent text msgs, no phone calls no nothing in between to see how i am. Just one collegue keeps in touch. Now time is going on,  I have received a recorded letter saying he wants to have a meeting at the end of the month. In work. I have been at my wits end today, stressing, crying as I really can't  face him. I cant get over the things he had said to me that day. I just don't want to ever face him or see the place again but I know that the procedure has to be dealt with. My anxiety has went through the roof today with worrying ... 

I thank you in advance for anyone reading this. It's a cry for help. To the woman who started this thread, I really do hope you are getting the help and support yourself and that you fight the Cancer. If I could do anything in my life it would be to see this disease out! Best wishes to you and everyone else who is dealing with this terrible disease.

Kindest regards 

W

Hello,

I have similar question. If I’m off sick is the employer allowed to request a meeting while I’m still of sick? 

My line manager keep calling me and sending me e mail. I told her that I will see her when I come back to work, but she keeps calling me. 

This info from MacMillan may help www.macmillan.org.uk/.../your-rights.html

As a former line manager AND a cancer patient, I know only too well how hard it is to get the balance right. What might seem to be delivering a duty of care by me as a manager, might be interpreted as intrusive or even discriminatory by me as a patient. 

As a line manager, I was expected to keep in touch with my staff when they were off on long term sick - mainly to check on their well being, but also for practical reasons as I often had to pay for temporary staff to cover their posts and needed to tell them how long they were needed for.

Good luck

Dave

Hi, if you don't mind and can ask your doughter?

I working for morrisons and they totally unfair, do I can take friend for formal meeting?

Best regards, 

Peter

I’m afraid she no longer works in HR so sorry I cannot help.

Sundial