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Hi Bev,

Not sure what our recruitment policy is, but our absence policy initiates a review by management if an employee hits three episodes of absence in a six month period. The Santander policy, as you say, seems generous (but whose to say it doesn't change once you commence employment?).

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Andy.

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I was very interested in the following in message which appeared on the jobs at Santander website ( my sister works for them). "Sickness Absence What we believe Its our policy not to recruit people who have an unacceptable level of repeat, short term sickness absence where there's no underlying medical condition and they're not classed as disabled under the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA). Our current benchmark for short- term absence is twice an applicants normal working week OR three separate periods of absence in a rolling 12-month period. Normally we won’t recruit anyone if they’ve met or exceeded this." It seems like quite a low benchmark.....Has anyone came across anything like this before? ******************************** Please remove this footer before replying. OCC-HEALTH ARCHIVES: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/occ-health.html CONFERENCES AND STUDY DAYS: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/filearea.cgi?LMGT1=OCC-HEALTH

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