Author: Olivia

Hey guys, UK here, so I've been given a written warning for absenteism (7.5 days absense since summer last year). 4 of those days were due to pain from a dental emergency, 1 was a complication due to a loss in the family and two were just actual sickness. Honestly, I didn't think it was great attendence but I didn't see it as a “problem”. My workplace ammended our contracts last month to include a system of monitering absense called the Bradford Factor (or Bradford Score). Long story short it punishes frequency rather then quantity. So there are people with more days absent then me with a lower score because their days off were in blocks where mine were individual days. Right fine whatever. I don't agree with the system but they can choose whatever they want. The part that irks me though is that they introduced this to our…