Doctors notes

[AB]

Can employers request a doctors note if they don't believe that you are ill, even if it has only been 3 days?

[Plotloss]

Having a few duvet days are we?

[batfink79]

AFAIK

Nope.

[Smart roadster]

If you've only been off for three days then you have no need to visit the doctor, for a sick note, so I would have thought not. They can ask but I don't think you have to comply.

[Plotloss]

Surely if they think he is swinging the lead they're entitled to ask for proof?

Its their trainset at the end of the day.

[Uhura_Fighter]

NHS sicknote pages


Not as far as I can tell - should be self-cert.

[VXED]

I would have thought it depends on your contract. We are asked for a doctors note if we take 2 days off.

[Slate99]

made me think of this.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/23/sickie_woo...

[GreenDog]

Thought a self certification was all they required for 3 days

[Adenauer]

Over here in Ze Fazerland it's 3 days, yes

But then, knowing the current "why should I have to go to work" culture in England at the moment it's probably 3 months + compensation + a free flat + a flatscreen television

[tim2100]

Slate99 said:

made me think of this.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/23/sickie_woo...

Quality!!

[AB]

It says in my contract, up to 5 days self cert and then a docs note for extended period.

I am having a few duvet days but would much rather be in work - back problems.

The reason they dont believe me is because I am working my notice at the moment.

[Smart roadster]

Plotloss, I see your point, but if everybody who took a couple of days off had to see a quack then all quacks would do is fill in sick notes. This is not a great use of their time is it.

If you are on your notice period then tell them to shove it, bye the time they have gone through a full on disaplinery procedure you'll be long gone.

[AB]

Precisely - I finish this Friday anyway!

I have loads of stuff to pick up though which is annoying.

[Uhura_Fighter]

You could just give your GP a call and have a telephone consultation if work is being a pain, I do this regulary but then I have been sick for over a year.

[PH5121]

My wife has to produce a sick note even if she has one day off.
I think this is a requirement of her headteacher, rather than the LEA. As teachers get 6 months full pay sick leave, certain members of staff have taken it as a right to additional time off as and when it suited them.

Where I work there is no right to sick pay, it is at the discretion of the boss.

[Get Karter]

Adenauer said:

But then, knowing the current "why should I have to go to work" culture in England at the moment it's probably...... a free flat + a flatscreen television

Well fair's fair....if the politicians can get that stuff free, why can't we?

Oh, and gardening expensses too, don't forget the gardening....

[AB]

Uhura_Fighter said:

You could just give your GP a call and have a telephone consultation if work is being a pain, I do this regulary but then I have been sick for over a year.

Yes, this may be the easiest way. To be quite honest with you, part of me wants to just stay off and stick two fingers up to them for being awkward with me.

The way they treated me since I handed in my notice wasn't exactly nice.

The fact is, its a 3 hour car journey to work and back and it's very uncomfortable on my back.

I can see why they wouldnt believe me.

[Adenauer]

Get Karter said:

Adenauer said:

But then, knowing the current "why should I have to go to work" culture in England at the moment it's probably...... a free flat + a flatscreen television

Well fair's fair....if the politicians can get that stuff free, why can't we?

Oh, and gardening expensses too, don't forget the gardening....

Tut Tut Tut, just because the politicians do it doesn't make it right

[VR6time]

I believe that any sickness under a week does not need a sicknote.