Help centre / Leave and sickness
Sickness: reporting it, fit notes and coming back
Tell your employer you're off sick, send a fit note, and say when you're back; managers and HR record sickness for someone.
Sickness is recorded, never approved.
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Saying what's wrong is optional, and only HR sees it.
If you're off sick
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Step 1: On Home or My leave, press I'm off sick.
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Step 2: Got a fit note?
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Open your sickness on My leave and press Send my fit note.
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Step 3: When you're back, press I'm back at work, enter your First day back and press I'm back.
Record it for someone (managers and HR)
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Step 1: Go to Leave and absence, Absence, and press Record sickness.
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Step 2: Choose who, the first day off, and the last day off or Still off.
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Step 3: Press Record.
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On the absence you can Upload fit note or Record return to work.
Be paid holiday for a sick day instead
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Step 1: Open your sickness in Leave, My absences, and press Use holiday for days of this sickness.
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Step 2: Tick the days, then press Take as holiday.
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You can choose to have a day off sick paid as holiday, for example when you'd get only Statutory Sick Pay, or nothing. It's always your choice, never your employer's.
Each day stays recorded as sickness, and comes off your holiday like any other day. Payroll pays it as holiday, with no Statutory Sick Pay on top. Press Undo on a day to give the holiday back. You're emailed each time.
HR or your manager can record it for you when you ask: on the absence, press They asked to use holiday.
Stuck?
I can't choose holiday for a sick day
Your organisation may have it switched off. Ask HR, who can still record it for you. A day can't be taken as holiday if it's paid company sick pay, isn't one of your working days, is taken already, or would go past the holiday you have left.
I wasn't off after all
Open it and press I wasn't off after all.
My fit note won't upload
Use a photo or a PDF, up to 10 MB. HR, and your manager if you have one, are told you sent it and the dates it covers; they open your record to read it.
The dates are wrong
HR or your manager can open the absence and press Correct dates, or Cancel: recorded by mistake.
I can't see someone's health details
Only people allowed to see them can, and opening them is logged.
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