sick leave
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How To Get a Valid Medical Certificate Without Leaving Your Sick Bed
The only thing that’s significantly worse than being sick is having to work up the energy to drag yourself into the doctor’s surgery just to get a medical certificate to send to your boss — especially when the only thing you want to do is crawl into a dark (and preferably very deep) hole and…
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Is It Legal To Substitute Annual Leave For Sick Leave?
Picture the scene: you’ve organised a week off work for some much-needed R&R. On the first day of your holiday, you’re struck down with the flu. Instead of sunning it up on the beach, you spend the entire week coughing up phlegm in bed. If you’d been at work, you definitely would have called in…
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Time To Take A Sick Day: Working When Ill Is Bad For You – And Your Company
Feeling ill? Well, staying at home would seem to be the sensible course of action. Yet for many, going to work while sick has become the norm, even a necessity in the face of the pressures placed on us by the organisations which employ us.
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Ask LH: Is It OK To Take Sickies After Quitting A Job?
Hi Lifehacker, So I’ve submitted my resignation and am counting down to my last day of work, with three weeks left to go. Last week, I decided to take a — ahem — “sick” day. Now I’m wondering what’s stopping me from taking more. (What are they going to do, fire me? Or what?)