Need to take a planned sick day

Petyr Baelish

Hi, I need to take a planned sick day for a gnuine reason. The clinic I will be going to will provide me with an unfit for work sick note but I'm not sure if I should talk to my employer first to let them know that I will be doing it or should I just go ahead and do it? If I were to tell them, could they insist that I take it as leave?

AndrewJRenko

Might depend on your relationship with your boss, more than the legality. Will the nature of the treatment be obvious from the cert. Will it be viewed as cosmetic or essential?

stevveyg

A girl that works in my factory was told she had to use her holiday days as it was planned and she knew in advance she would be absent from work. Now I heard from someone in union that if her cert said on it "procedure done" then they couldn't take her holiday days off her.
Don't know the truth in this if anyone can shed any light.

_Brian

Sick leave can't really be scheduled. Medical appointments should be taken from annual leave.
Maybe your boss will bend the rules but really he's giving you an extra day annual leave.

Do you get paid sick leave?

Chancer3001

Why bother risking it?

Just call in sick on the day.

Unless of course the sick cert reason is cosmetic

messy tessy

It really depends on the place you are working. I had to have an operation a few years ago and took 2 weeks sick leave after it, all planned and agreed with boss in advance. Although maybe if it's just one day I'd ring in sick that morning.

john.han

Scheduled procedures/appointments are sick leave. If they make you take annual leave get a note from the clinic stating you were unfit for work for that day and they have to give you back the annual leave day.

amtc

I got my wisdom teeth out and took it as planned sick leave. I also had a back operation in 2012 and was off work on planned sick leave for six weeks. These were different employers. The way my second boss explained it to be that they had a duty of care to check I was ok to return to work and hence sick leave was preferable rather than using holidays plus allowed them to plan. However when I got my eyes lasered I had it done on Saturday and took a day's leave on the Monday as it was elective surgery.

Petyr Baelish

It's a vasectomy. Not something I want to have to tell my employer. I have a good relationship with them but I don't know if it extends far enough as to ask for a days sick leave for what is essentially elective surgery.

Tell me how

Petyr Baelish wrote:

It's a vasectomy. Not something I want to have to tell my employer.

Given that your boss is Jon Snow and what you told him last week about Sansa I'd say he'd give you a month off for that procedure.

TaurenDruid

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Given that your boss is Jon Snow and what you told him last week about Sansa I'd say he'd give you a month off for that procedure.

I'd say he'd do it for free - with a blunt spoon! ;-)

OP - it's a medical procedure; you're entitled to sick leave for it, even though it's elective, because you won't be fit for work. Most employers will respect your privacy enough not to enquire further once you say "I need to have a minor medical procedure done, it's scheduled for x day" and you hand them a cert from a doctor or clinic saying "Medical procedure" afterwards. As far as they're concerned, it could be anything from tests being carried out, to minor surgery.