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SECTION 2.3
Sickness
TERMS & CONDITIONS
Sickness
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If you are absent from work due to illness, or injury, or for any reason, and
your absence has not previously been authorised by us, you must inform
your Head of Department or Supervising College Officer or his or her
representative as appropriate, as soon as possible on your first day of
absence and within the first hour of the start of your shift or working day.
You must keep us regularly informed, if you continue to be absent, of your
progress and your likely date of return. If you are told or warned that your
illness is infectious or contagious, you must let us know immediately.
If you are absent due to illness or injury for seven days or less (including
days when you would not normally work, weekends, and public holidays),
you need not produce a medical certificate unless we specifically ask you
to do so. However, upon your return to work, you must immediately
complete and submit a Self-Certification Sickness form. This can be
obtained from your Head of Department or the Human Resources Officer.
If you are absent due to illness or injury for more than seven days
(calculated as above), you must on the eighth day provide us with a
medical certificate from a registered general practitioner stating the reason
for your absence. Thereafter, any further absence must continue to be
supported by medical certificates.
Before you return to work from an absence of more than seven days, or if
your illness was infectious or contagious, you must provide your Head of
Department or Supervising College Officer with a certificate from a
registered general practitioner stating that you are fit to return to work.
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Failure to adhere to these notification procedures may affect your
entitlement to College sick pay/Statutory Sick Pay. The College will take a
serious view if you take sickness leave which is not genuine. Abuse of, or
non-compliance with, the College’s sickness absence rules is a serious
disciplinary offence which may, in appropriate cases, lead to dismissal.
For the avoidance of doubt, a sickness absence is only an authorised
absence if you are prevented, by your own sickness or injury, from
carrying out any of the work you are employed to do and you comply with
the notification requirements.