Sickness
Notification
Procedure
You are required to contact your manager as soon as possible on the first day of sickness absence, stating why you are absent and when you expect to return. If your absence continues, you must contact your manager regularly to provide an update on your continuing absence.
You must provide the appropriate certificates as referred to below at the relevant times, and complete any absence recording documentation as required on your return to work.
Failure to notify the Company as set out will result in the Disciplinary and Dismissal Procedure being used.
Self-Certificate and Medical Practitioner’s Certificate
You should produce the following written evidence of absence and ensure that appropriate certificates are provided for the whole of your absence.
Self-Certificate
For absence of up to and including 7 calendar days; or
Medical Practitioner’s Certificate
You should forward certificates and any correspondence to your manager as soon as possible. Failure to do so may result in sick pay being delayed or withheld and action under the Disciplinary and Dismissal Procedure being taken.
The Company reserves the right to require you to undertake a medical examination by a medical practitioner and/or specialist of the Company’s choice and/or to seek a report from your Doctor.
You are required to contact your manager as soon as possible on the first day of sickness absence, stating why you are absent and when you expect to return. If your absence continues, you must contact your manager regularly to provide an update on your continuing absence.
You must provide the appropriate certificates as referred to below at the relevant times, and complete any absence recording documentation as required on your return to work.
Failure to notify the Company as set out will result in the Disciplinary and Dismissal Procedure being used.
Self-Certificate and Medical Practitioner’s Certificate
You should produce the following written evidence of absence and ensure that appropriate certificates are provided for the whole of your absence.
Self-Certificate
For absence of up to and including 7 calendar days; or
Medical Practitioner’s Certificate
- For absence of more than 7 calendar days; or
- When requested, where more than 3 periods of self-certificated absence occur in any 12 month period (this may have to be obtained at your own expense); or
- For absence before or following an annual or bank/public holiday.
You should forward certificates and any correspondence to your manager as soon as possible. Failure to do so may result in sick pay being delayed or withheld and action under the Disciplinary and Dismissal Procedure being taken.
The Company reserves the right to require you to undertake a medical examination by a medical practitioner and/or specialist of the Company’s choice and/or to seek a report from your Doctor.
