2 weeks sick pay

Anna23

A friend of mine has taken 2 weeks off from work in January as she was under lot of pressure in work, she went to the doctor and exp the situation to him, he decided to give her 2 weeks off, on the doc cert it said 2 much work/ stress, the manager called her in after 2 weeks asking for her to explain herself, and that it doesnt seem to him that she is doing 2 much work, she felt under lot of pressure to respond to him questions, anyway, HR got involved and they asked her to go to the companies doctor, she did go and now is expecting to get a docs cert, my question is, can they fire her for being out sick for 2 weeks, with a docs cert and will she get paid????

Wishbone Ash

Anna23 wrote:

can they fire her for being out sick for 2 weeks, with a docs cert and will she get paid????

An employer is under no obligation to accept a Doctor Cert. or to pay for sick leave. They can request that an employee attend a doctor of the employers choice. It is highly unlikely that an employee could be legally dismissed because of two weeks sick.

Would be better in Work and Jobs Forum.

Beruthiel

moved to the Work forum
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seamus

Wishbone Ash wrote:

An employer is under no obligation to accept a Doctor Cert. or to pay for sick leave. They can request that an employee attend a doctor of the employers choice. It is highly unlikely that an employee could be legally dismissed because of two weeks sick.

A Doctor's cert isn't a legally binding document. It's not a get-of-jail-free card for getting off work.

As Ash says, it's highly unlikely that any company would fire someone for two weeks' sickness. It would be patterns of sickness or sicknesses that were affecting productivity that would prompt an employer to let a person go.

If the company sent her to their own doctor and she got a cert from him, then they wouldn't have much cause for complaint.

However, she's not entitled to be paid for time off work sick. The first two days are unpaid. From the third day, she can put in a claim with social welfare for an allowance for the days she's off sick.

Many companies have policies on sick pay, so she should check this out. My company for example, give you full pay while off sick. However, after the third day, you must apply for the relevant social welfare, and hand the welfare money over to them (i.e. they "top up" your welfare payments to the amount of your full pay).

As for the questioning, an employer would have a right to a reasonable explanation for absences. However pressuring for answers to fairly personal questions wouldn't be on. Complaining to HR about one's boss though would usually spell the end of your career in that company.

jimmycrackcorm

Wishbone Ash wrote:

An employer is under no obligation to accept a Doctor Cert. or to pay for sick leave.

The company has to accept a certificate from the company doctor.

Wishbone Ash

jimmycrackcorm wrote:

The company has to accept a certificate from the company doctor.

If you had read the second sentence on my post........

Wishbone Ash wrote:

They can request that an employee attend a doctor of the employers choice.

Anna23

No complaint has been made against the boss, she tried talking to him, but he laughed in her face when she explained the prob, so she decided to go to the doctor, and maybe that way he would pay attention to her. But defo she did not make a complaint against him.

\m/_(>_<)_\m/

Anna23 wrote:

defo she did not make a complaint against him.

its you isn't it....

ah jazzzzzzzzzus reading over you posts, id say you are a thorn in your employers side and the bain of all your co workers... but that only from you posts.

but to answer you question no he cant....
hope this helps.

Nody

\m/_(>_<)_\m/ wrote:

stuff

Is there a reason why you're going around necroing her old threads posting replies with insults? Out of curiosity, that is all.

\m/_(>_<)_\m/

Nody wrote:

Is there a reason why you're going around necroing her old threads posting replies with insults? Out of curiosity, that is all.

first of all i don't understand what "necroing" is...forgive my lack of education.
but ill try answer...have you read her posts, its better than Walter Mitty.

Nody

\m/_(>_<)_\m/ wrote:

first of all i don't understand what "necroing" is...forgive my lack of education.

It is from another board I'm active on. Necroing is refering to "raising the dead", as in taking a thread that has not been active for over a month+ and left the frontpage for the depths of the board and then bring it back up again. The really annoying once will find the first threads ever created on the board and post a reply to a issue long dead and buried (or a comment like "Hi person X, what are you doing now?" on a thread where the last reply was from 2005...).

As for her threads, yup, I've read several of them (;

\m/_(>_<)_\m/

Nody wrote:

It is from another board I'm active on. Necroing is refering to "raising the dead", as in taking a thread that has not been active for over a month+ and left the frontpage for the depths of the board and then bring it back up again. The really annoying once will find the first threads ever created on the board and post a reply to a issue long dead and buried (or a comment like "Hi person X, what are you doing now?" on a thread where the last reply was from 2005...).

As for her threads, yup, I've read several of them (;

good man...fully educmatided now....

damnyanks

Maybe he's the guy the user keeps complaining about.

\m/_(>_<)_\m/

no no thats me...