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I had an operation on my shoulder and was signed off work for 6 weeks. Everyone at work knew I was going off for the operation and my doctors note was handed in the very next day. After 3 weeks I felt like I would be fit to go back to work the week after, so visited the doctor and received a fit to work note.
So in my eyes I was going back to work 2 weeks early and everything would be fine.
Once I got into work I realised something was up as my work accounts were disabled and my company mobile had been disabled.
When I spoke to HR I was told that they tried to contact me 2 days before I went back to work but I didn’t answer my phone and I didn’t respond to the voicemail that was left.
I do remember looking at a couple of missed calls on my mobile but I couldn’t access the voicemail, I thought EE was having issues again but this wasn’t the case, work had actually disabled my phone. As I could not make a call out I had no idea who had left the voicemail.
So, the reason they tried to contact me was to say I had not updated my HR records when I moved house therefore my Payslips had been sent back to work. Then they told me this was not following company procedures. To be honest I didn’t think that this was such a huge issue, It is something that has just slipped my mind.
During my time off, I had spoken to 3 fellow employees via text/phone calls and also my direct manager who is the MD of the company via text message and email and the Head of HR via email. So I was contactable until the moment they decided to block my company mobile.
Then they told me that in the Employee handbook it states that I should be contacting my employer every 7 days to give them an update on my absence.
When I checked the handbook, what it actually states is that I should contact them every 7 days if this was an unauthorised absence or an absence without prior authorisation. Surely the fact I had spoken to everyone before going off for my operation and handed in a doctors note for 6 weeks is my prior authorisation.
So obviously my question is, what on earth do I do here? I have this meeting on Wednesday and am panicking because to me it seems like the are clutching at straws and have no right to be disciplining me for the false reasons, but they obviously see something wrong here.
Thank you for reading this.
I had an operation on my shoulder and was signed off work for 6 weeks. Everyone at work knew I was going off for the operation and my doctors note was handed in the very next day. After 3 weeks I felt like I would be fit to go back to work the week after, so visited the doctor and received a fit to work note.
So in my eyes I was going back to work 2 weeks early and everything would be fine.
Once I got into work I realised something was up as my work accounts were disabled and my company mobile had been disabled.
When I spoke to HR I was told that they tried to contact me 2 days before I went back to work but I didn’t answer my phone and I didn’t respond to the voicemail that was left.
I do remember looking at a couple of missed calls on my mobile but I couldn’t access the voicemail, I thought EE was having issues again but this wasn’t the case, work had actually disabled my phone. As I could not make a call out I had no idea who had left the voicemail.
So, the reason they tried to contact me was to say I had not updated my HR records when I moved house therefore my Payslips had been sent back to work. Then they told me this was not following company procedures. To be honest I didn’t think that this was such a huge issue, It is something that has just slipped my mind.
During my time off, I had spoken to 3 fellow employees via text/phone calls and also my direct manager who is the MD of the company via text message and email and the Head of HR via email. So I was contactable until the moment they decided to block my company mobile.
Then they told me that in the Employee handbook it states that I should be contacting my employer every 7 days to give them an update on my absence.
When I checked the handbook, what it actually states is that I should contact them every 7 days if this was an unauthorised absence or an absence without prior authorisation. Surely the fact I had spoken to everyone before going off for my operation and handed in a doctors note for 6 weeks is my prior authorisation.
So obviously my question is, what on earth do I do here? I have this meeting on Wednesday and am panicking because to me it seems like the are clutching at straws and have no right to be disciplining me for the false reasons, but they obviously see something wrong here.
Thank you for reading this.
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