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Backdated sick note.

  • 01-04-2019 02:19PM
    #1
    B.A._Baracus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,230 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi all
    This is probably a stupid question but I don't know the answer to it. Sorry if it's in the wrong section too.

    Basically took a week off a few weeks ago. Didn't get a doctor's note. Stupid me. But have to go back to the doctor's in a few days.

    Do or can doctor's backdate a sick note?


    Thanks


Comments

  • #2
    B_ecke_r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭B_ecke_r


    I've got one before,

    depends on your doctor really, some are sound, some are miserable


  • #3
    c6ysaphjvqw41k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 466 ✭✭c6ysaphjvqw41k


    Depends on the doctor. Mine would. My sisters doctor sent her off with steroids and an inhaler for her chest infection and still wouldn't give her a sick note.


  • #4
    .......
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,057 ✭✭✭.......


    You took a week off - were you sick?

    Did you see the doctor at that time? I cant see why it would be refused if the doc has a record of the visit.


  • #5
    Dial Hard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,510 ✭✭✭✭Dial Hard


    Were you actually sick and did you see the doctor at the time??? If the answer to yes is both and you just forgot to ask for a sick note, then I can't see why they wouldn't give it to you.

    If you were just having a sneaky week off and didn't go to the doctor, I know mine would laugh at you if you went looking for an arse-covering sick note after the fact.


  • #6
    B_ecke_r
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 491 ✭✭B_ecke_r


    have some experience with HR and it's a very slippery slope to try and climb if the employee says they simply couldn't afford a doctor visit.

    it would be noted as a first time if there was a pattern then things may change from HR POV but it is very feasible you could not afford a doctor's visit.

    I know it's in everyone's contract and that but you have to trust your employees


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  • #7
    OMM 0000
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,733 ✭✭✭OMM 0000


    I don't think the doctor is supposed to give you a sick note for a previous illness if he did not examine you at the time.

    I feel asking him to do so is putting him in a awkward position.

    However if he did previously examine you, then I think it would be no bother.


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