It is amazing what a little bit of research on the Internet can do for you. I found a very useful little piece on sick leave, which, I am sure you will be glad to know, I used to my own shady ends.
In a nutshell, if you are off work with sickness for less than seven days, then your employer cannot require you to produce a sick certificate from your doctor. You are able to “self-certificate” for this period. These regulations come from the Department of Work & Pensions. Thus, I printed them off, highlighted the relative parts and submitted them to my manager, together with my self-certificating form (SC2, should you be interested) much to her chagrin and my self-satisfied amusement. That’d be 1-0 to me then. Talking of which.......
My 5-a-side football team played in the second annual tournament for a small charity yesterday. Last year we reached the final and lost due to a combination of being kicked all over the pitch by a bunch of violent thugs who had little interest in actually playing football and a ref who was completely gormless. We actually equalised in the last minute, the ref gave the goal and then, following our opponents’ protests, ruled it out. That one rankled for an entire year with all of us. We played the same team in the semis this year and beat them – I can’t tell you how good that felt. The final finished 0-0 and it was 1-1 after penalties. It went to sudden death and we lost it 1-0. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! As you would expect, despite being captain and being expected to lead by example, I completely bottled it and did not take a penalty. Still, I’ve always wanted to be able to say I’ve lost a final on penalties. Maybe third time lucky next year.
In a nutshell, if you are off work with sickness for less than seven days, then your employer cannot require you to produce a sick certificate from your doctor. You are able to “self-certificate” for this period. These regulations come from the Department of Work & Pensions. Thus, I printed them off, highlighted the relative parts and submitted them to my manager, together with my self-certificating form (SC2, should you be interested) much to her chagrin and my self-satisfied amusement. That’d be 1-0 to me then. Talking of which.......
My 5-a-side football team played in the second annual tournament for a small charity yesterday. Last year we reached the final and lost due to a combination of being kicked all over the pitch by a bunch of violent thugs who had little interest in actually playing football and a ref who was completely gormless. We actually equalised in the last minute, the ref gave the goal and then, following our opponents’ protests, ruled it out. That one rankled for an entire year with all of us. We played the same team in the semis this year and beat them – I can’t tell you how good that felt. The final finished 0-0 and it was 1-1 after penalties. It went to sudden death and we lost it 1-0. Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! As you would expect, despite being captain and being expected to lead by example, I completely bottled it and did not take a penalty. Still, I’ve always wanted to be able to say I’ve lost a final on penalties. Maybe third time lucky next year.
