Sick Day

[Johno6]

what movies on?

wanna share a bean bag

[old fullback]

RDO and loving it.

[mighty_tiger_79]

what movies on?

wanna share a bean bag

i think midnight in paris, got free tickets or i wouldnt have gone!

tag along if ya want, you can shout the beer!!!

[Kahuna]

It's my RDO this coming Monday,they asked if I would like to swap it for today. Told em "no" and took today as a rec day. Can't mess with the RDO!

[Dogmatic]

Jury duty

[Pag]

As a teacher, we 'officially' went back to work for Tuesday and Wednesday with today off, yet I found myself spending half a day Monday and all day today at work getting myself ready for next week. With half a hangover today too, top effort on my part I think.

[dedja]

What did you do in the other 6 weeks you had off?

[Dog_ger]

No sicky here.

4 weeks holidays coming up on Feb 1.

I have so many sick days and annual leave accumulated....

500 hrs each of both....

[Psyber]

Taking a "sickie" when your are not genuinely sick is theft.
Sick leave is not part of one's holiday entitlement....
[You can see I've been an employer. ]

I found grounds to sack a receptionist who kept taking paid sick leave for her medically certified "Cholecystitis".
I knew was liver irritation from her intermittent alcohol abuse, and she just had a "soft" GP.
I couldn't see why I should pay for her self-abuse.

[Bully]

yes i do

but in this job of mine, i cant have s sick day on monday or friday without a sick form. other days dont need one. But one day is not worth it. But when i have something important to do i will take a sickie. And no i dont use the computer for work its my personal one.

[gadj1976]

I'm a contractor.

Contractors don't understand what sick days are.

[The Sleeping Giant]

Taking a "sickie" when your are not genuinely sick is theft.
Sick leave is not part of one's holiday entitlement....
[You can see I've been an employer. ]

I found grounds to sack a receptionist who kept taking paid sick leave for her medically certified "Cholecystitis".
I knew was liver irritation from her intermittent alcohol abuse, and she just had a "soft" GP.
I couldn't see why I should pay for her self-abuse.

Wish she had sued you.

[Bully]

agreed.

but you cant stop someone taking a sickie without being sick. how can you prove this? if its more then 2 days straight, then you need a certificate, but one day by law is not required. So how can they police it

[The Sleeping Giant]

You can't. That's why I think Psyber is telling porkies, trying to big note again.

If it helps anyone, you can request your doctor write medical condition on your sick certificate, and if your employer asks, you can tell them its none of their business.

[dedja]

agreed.

but you cant stop someone taking a sickie without being sick. how can you prove this? if its more then 2 days straight, then you need a certificate, but one day by law is not required. So how can they police it

I would have thought the requirement for a certificate would vary between awards and employment agreements.

Some employers require one on the 3rd consecutive sick day, or on either side of all public holidays ... others may request one for every day or have different arrangements.

[Brucetiki]

In both my current job and previous job, we are/were allowed 3 single sick days per year without a doctors certificate. The old job also required doctors certificates if you called in sick on a public holiday of the day after a public holiday - was strictly enforced in particular for Adelaide Cup Day which was effectively a normal working day as it wasn't a national public holiday (still got the choice of penalty rates or a day off in lieu though).

[Punk Rooster]

I'm a contractor.

Contractors don't understand what sick days are.

As someone who recently started my own business, I worked Australia Day, from 9am-7pm (and just finsihed working the entire weekend).

[Johno6]

I think you should speak to your boss about a raise PR

[Psyber]

You can't. That's why I think Psyber is telling porkies, trying to big note again.
If it helps anyone, you can request your doctor write medical condition on your sick certificate, and if your employer asks, you can tell them its none of their business.

It is quite simple really if you use your brain.
If you know someone is abusing the situation you can find methods to sort them out.
In this case I eventually caught the person concerned reading patient's confidential files and used that as the trigger.
The instructions had been clear - staff got the files out for me and put them back, but were instructed to never open them...

Incidentally, my wife discovered when filling in in the job that patient who had given that receptionist a Siamese kitten had never been billed for several consultations.
There were a few squawks when those bills went out.


Your are right about "a medical condition" - that's what I wrote on most of the certificates I issued to patients.
It is up to the employer to work out whether their employees are milking the system, or simply making themselves a liability by their own behaviour.
However, I never wrote a certificate if I thought the patient was faking it - I'd rather lose the patient, unlike some "soft" medicos.

Later, as an employer, I decided to play safe and only employ part time casuals and pay the 20% loading for flexibilty.
That way I could decide to "economise" and my wife would do the job for a while until we got someone else, when it was "affordable" again.
When casual employees got extras like tenure and leave, on top of the extra rate that was originally compensation for the lack of these, and the right to multiple warnings, I stopped employing entirely, and moved into a serviced suite.

PS: TSG - I know you won't believe it, because you don't want to, but everything I've ever posted here has been absolute truth.

[The Sleeping Giant]

You said you fired her for sick leave. If she was reading confidential files then I have no problem with that.