01nofun,
I thought about that and the doctors note, but the problem lies again with the cost of having a doctors note for sickness less than 7 days, unless the company was willing to pick the tab up, depends what costs it more £40 per docs note or crew taking liberties.
Of course there is the what do you do on a weekend qustion when the docs are closed.
There is the points system at present, how about when somone reaches a certain category/number of points (without doctors notes) they become "roster wipeable"... if subsequent sickness showed that the initial sickness was a direct result ie symptom of a more serious condition then their points are reset. However only becoming "roster wipeable" after hitting a set number of points would cater for the odd ocassion one is sick over a weekend and cant get a doctors note, if however people just so happened to be falling sick every time a docs not availabe (weekends) then a pattern starts to emerge and that's just tough,the points threshold was there to cater for that, but everytime.... come on !!