is this legal?

Valli

tradeskill wrote: »

I think any employee who informed about his illness to his boss as per doctor's advice. There is no need to inform to his boss or any other person to his company. If any urgent work which suffers due to that employee, company authority should take permission to his doctors to consult with that employee. If doctor deny the permission, nobody can consult with that employee. Thanks.

And your point is?

MelJ_2

If the company only pays Statutory sick then they are not allowed to insist on any contact outside of the notification and production of the doctors note, however, if they pay Company sick pay which is over SSP they can ask - although their requirements do seem OTT!

newbyteacher

thanks for all the helpful replies. He tried to contact the boss today, he wasn't answering so he ended up talking to one of the area managers (level above his boss ) who said he didn't need to phone as they had received a sick note that covers him until next week.
Silly dad then covered for his boss and said he had made a mistake and thought it was company policy that he had to phone everyday.