Sick Leave

I work in retail part time. I worked the 27th then had a day on/day off for the rest of the week. I called in sick on the 29th and the 31st. (I had the 30th off). I'm back in tomorrow and my boss has asked me to bring in a sick note from the doctor as I had been off for 3 days.
I looked in my contract and it does say that if I'm absent for more than three days, I need a doctors note. But in my eyes, I was only "absent" for two. The 29th and 31st.
This is not a worry that the doctor will refuse me. I have been genuinely ill. But it's the simple fact of paying €50 to see the doctor when I feel fine now.

What I would like to know is, are they right? Is that counted as three days absenteeism. I looked up oasis.gov or whatever it's called now and there was nothing on it.

Any help appreciated,

Barry

daiixi

I'd say that technically you wouldn't have to provide a doctors note. Query it with your boss tomorrow explaining that you did only take two days off work and that you'd prefer not to have to spend the €50 seeing your doctor if you don't have to. I once had it in my contract that if I took a Monday or Friday off sick or three days off I had to provide a doctors note. My boyfriend called in sick for me one Monday because I was in bed with a migraine and my boss told him that I had to get a doctors note. My boyfriend literally laughed at her and said that if I could move my head off my pillow without vomiting we'd consider it but not to hold her breath. She never pushed it!

Well, thats the other thing The boss who told me to get a doctors note got promoted onto a bigger store. So I actually have a new boss tomorrow and if my old boss told him about it... Ya know you just want to get the first few weeks out of the way and find out what they're like.

Peter Collins

Your Boss is right - example: if you're off sick Friday and Monday, this is technically a sick period of four days and must be certified.

Your sick period is three days so must be certified too.

Pay the doc!

Wishbone Ash

I'm afraid your boss is correct. If you worked in a Monday to Friday position and went sick on the Friday and the following Monday, you would officially have taken 4 days sick leave. You could have got around it by telephoning back off sick on the 30th and going sick again on the 31st.