Cancer isn't fair, but your boss has to be

  • Guest blog: Gentian's story

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Gentian was diagnosed with rectal cancer in October 2017. Her employer was very understanding and supportive, but they hadn’t had an employee with cancer before so didn’t know how to support her. Gentian called Macmillan’s Work Support Service to find out about her rights at work and how her employer could support her to return to work when she felt ready.

    I was diagnosed with rectal cancer in October…

  • Taking time off work

    FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Hello!

    Welcome to the second instalment of Emma and Polly’s blog, ‘Cancer’s not fair but your boss has to be’. We wanted to say thank you for all of your comments on our first post, it’s great to see that you’re finding our blog helpful. We thought we’d cover a few topics and issues that were most commonly talked about in the comments from our first blog. Today, we’ll be talking about time off…