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Dear List - a couple of years ago I asked for people's experience with migraine and the DDA. This is in relation to a woman doing a clerical job who was referred because of short-term sickness absence of 45 - 80 or so days per year. Much of the absence she associates with migrainous headaches related to her periods, which have an approximately 23-25 day cycle. Her GP has tried many treatment lines and hospital referrals without success. There are reasonable indications that this is not a straigtforward problem and that there is a conduct/dysfunctional element to at least some of the absence. I've previously advised that migraine of sufficient severity to cause absence from work over several years would be likely to count as a disability under the DDA and that allowing time off to recover from migraine was a reasonable adjustment. The problem is continuing - any thoughts, medically or managerially?? The employer is thinking of making the job officially part-time, with a cyclical pattern to follow the migraine occurrence - at least they would save on salary is the rationale - but I have doubts that this would work in practice because of the unlikelihood that the migraines would consistently occur during the "off" times. Come on - let's get this list going again - it is in one of its phases of torpor - best wishes - Kate