Hi Dawn
Well my little story is ::::I work in a steel terminal loading and unloading steel for import/export.
The work is hard Long hours most of the time and my Company has always said "We don't have Light Duties" Well I was diagnosed in January 2009 with MM, my first line of treatment was CTD, I went on sick on my 3rd cycle of CTD due to tiredness 🙁 and stayed of till after my SCT which was in December 2009, was off from May 2009 till May 2010, I decided to go back to work to see if I could do it?? and wanted a reduced hours/week ?? but my Manager (also a director) of the company said he had a Job that he is setting up for me :-0 .
The Job he set up was to sit in a portakabin at the gate and book lorries in and inform my old colleagues what and when a lorry turned up, at the moment I am still doing the same job and he kept me on the same money and got the same bonus if any was paid.
Work has got very slack over this past year or so but I am like Rebecca I "remain only for the money/death benefits/a taste of normality." but to be fair if reduncy was an option I would take it that fast and be out of it all and am only 58 years young and taking no drugs at all.
Oh and the company sick pay was just the normal I never got nor asked for any top up.
Good Luck to those that have to make the decision to work or not to work its a darn hard one to do.
Tom Onwards and Upwards x
