Could I lose my job for getting a paid sick leave note by my GP
Hi, I posted on here a while back but here’s a summary of my background and issue.
I work at a mid/large size IT consulting company for 7 years.
I’ve gotten the highest performance grades and high project utilisation (over 98%) for the 7 years
My project is cutting costs and many are benched I know about 10 people who have been put on PIP and fired just this month. This is greater than the amount over the past 7 years I’ve been here.
I joined a new account this year and talked about in the last post that I sleep 4 hours average for this past year. I am taking on work much more senior than me and lack of sleep is impacting me work as I had issues troubleshooting and solving and even speaking/thinking. I’ve had other issues which I believe is caused by lack of sleep such as paranoia and anxiety.
My intention on the last post was to take a sabbatical out I was advised by comments that I should go to the GP and this is a normal thing to get a sick leave so I can return back to work and have workload reduced.
I’ve spoken to my GP but I’m afraid to take it further because I don’t want to be put on a PIP for taking sick leave or because my utilisation is low. All 10 people who were put on PIP were due to there benched periods.