A trigger point is a set number of sickness absences or days off that automatically starts your employer’s formal attendance management process, such as a review meeting or a warning. If you’re disabled, your employer may need to raise or adjust this threshold so absences linked to your condition aren’t counted against you in the same way.

In practice

In McRobbie v DWP, the DWP applied its standard sickness trigger point without adjusting it for the claimant's disability-related absences, which the tribunal found was a failure to make reasonable adjustments.

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