Sickness and dismissal (alreaady made redundant)

[bigbadwolf04]

Hi all, newbie here and looking for some advice.

My boyfriend along with another 200 people were made redundant in July, although are being kept on until the end of december when the office officially shuts down. He has had his redundancy letter and meeting and confirmed last working day is december 29th.

Previous to this, from Jan to March he had time of sick with sciatica which was fully covered with doctors certificates and he then returned to work. It is now November and on the 1st he had one day off sick (48 hour bug) in over 8 months. They have now called him in for a meeting next week where he feels they are going to let him go due to his sickness, although he feels they are finding any excuse to dismiss people to save in redundancy money. We are both clueless with employment law and although iv tried my best to do my own research, i cannot really find the answer i am looking for.

So my question is, if they pull him in for this meeting and want to dismiss him based upon sickness, how does he stand with this.... he has had not a single day off since he returned to work, and now he takes one day off sick genuinally he feels they will try to get rid of him because of this, We just want him to go into the meeting with some information and whether he has a leg to stand on.

Thank you for taking the time to read this

Bigbadwolf

[ULA]

Couple of questions:

1. Was he off for the total period of Jan to March? If not how long was he off for in total?2.
2. In the company sick policy is there any mention of disciplinary action being started after sickness levels increase beyond a certain amount of days in either a year i.e. Jan to Dec, April to March or a rolling twelve month period?
3. When you say he has been called in has he been informed in writing that it is a disciplinary meeting, that it is to do with his sickness absence, what might be the outcome if any disciplinary action is taken and that he can have a colleague or union representative to accompany him?